by Ben Sternke on January 13, 2012
The other day a friend of mine who is planting a church in New York City tweeted this: “The most aggressive, disturbing and overall frightening people I’ve encountered in Manhattan have been the street preachers.”
Most disciples of Jesus rightly don’t want to be associated with people like that, but I think that’s also a big reason many of us struggle to actually proclaim the good news. We can be kind and serve others and demonstrate the love of Christ in many ways, but many of us become tongue-tied and quiet when it comes to sharing the content of our faith, mostly out of fear of being associated with those people.
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by Ben Sternke on January 3, 2012
As we’ve progressed in planting our network of missional communities, we’ve discovered that discipleship is an absolutely essential foundation to have in place if you want to see sustainable fruit in terms of mission. Through our friends at 3DM, we’ve been learning how to build a discipling culture that is radically reproducible and leads to what Jesus called “fruit that lasts.”
Next week I will be starting a new 3DM Coaching Huddle focused on helping leaders establish a discipling culture in their ministry context. We’ll be working with 3DM’s memorable and reproducible tools, practices, and skills for imitating the life and ministry of Jesus and discipling others to do the same. You can see more detailed info about 3DM Coaching on their site.
If that sounds like something you’re interested in, contact me ASAP and we can talk about details. I look forward to hearing from you!
