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In The Disciple Making Church: From Dry Bones to Spiritual Vitality, author Glenn McDonald addresses what he sees as the critical element missing from the modern Christian Church: discipleship. McDonald, who owns a Master of Divinity Degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, is the senior pastor at Zionsville Presbyterian Church, which was once a traditional large suburban church, in that it focused more on the needs of the church than the needs of the parishioners. In this book, McDonald discusses how he helped transform his church from a traditional church to a church that emphasizes discipleship.

Smashed in the backseat of my uncle’s van which was already overcrowded with kids from throughout the community of Uniontown, the first thing I noticed was the girl’s ungroomed hair and the boy’s flip flops. Despite being the beginning of winter in this rural town of Kansas, the kids seemed unfazed by their lack of grooming or clothing; their faces said it all. Pure contentment and excitement, the kind of a child who has just been told he is going to Disneyland, spread across their faces as they scampered toward this 2008 Honda Odyssey. Tonight was Bible Impact Ministries (BIM) night, where about 50 kids go each week to receive one on one adult attention, enjoy much needed food, and learn the word of the Lord. BIM is only offered in this community

I serve as a Pastoral Intern at the Evanston Vineyard Church, a non-denominational church and is located at 2495 Howard Street, Evanston, IL. This is my second year serving here in the capacity of an intern. The Vineyard is a diverse community that welcomes both religious and secular people belonging to different ethnic, racial, cultural, linguistic, economic, academic, professional and non-professional backgrounds. People from more than fifty–fivenations of the world gather together and worship here at the church. A total of twelve salaried pastors serve on staff, out of which five are male and seven female. I am one of two female pastoral interns presently in service.

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21). I agree, it is vital that the disciple is involved in an intentional, ongoing plan that challenges themselves to greater Christ-likeness which manifests itself in the nurturing of others toward wholeness. This is what we are called to do when we become children of God. Christian Spiritual formation cannot happen in solitude; therefore, the purpose of spiritual formation is to ultimately lived out in community. This aligns with my view of personal and corporate spiritual formation. If we are not conformed to the image of Christ, we cannot incarnate in our relationships with others. Therefore, if we say we love God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit we are to love others. The image of Christ will be seen as the ultimate reality of human wholeness, the consummation for which each heart longs (Mullholland, p. 21). Therefore, God’s people has a role in healing brokenness and injustice in the world (p. 21). We are to be the salt and light of the world (Matthew

Our organization, Christian Business Leaders (CBL), welcomes all majors and strives to bring students together under one common purpose: "To foster a Christ centered organization that encourages service through Christ and leadership in business." No matter the student 's major, he or she will take part in a business process, from creating a resume to interviewing for a job to working with executives in the corporate world. We believe that our Christian values should be incorporated into everything we do. Christian Business Leaders has been able to help students understand how to apply their values in the job search and work place. Our organization has hosted numerous business speakers, including high profile leaders, to talk about how they bring their own faith to the workplace. Some of these inspiring speakers have drawn audiences up to four times the number of CBL members, thus widening CBL’s impact on the ISU community. Some of the well known speakers include former Chicago Bears running back, Adrian Peterson, President and CEO of Marklund, Gil Fonger, President and founder of Today’s Growth Consultant, Ken Courtright, ISU basketball coach Dan Muller, and CEO of BroMenn Hospital, Colleen Kannaday.

I evaluated my own kids ministry at Victorious Life Church, I purposely had my intern do the Bible Story and my volunteers take over everything else so I can evaluate our service. But here at my church we are called “VLC Kids”, but the preschool class that I teach is called “Jr Kids Church”, while the older kids are called “Kids Church”. Jr Kids is for the ages four, five, and Kindergarten. While Kids Church takes first grade up to 5th grade.

Our organization, Christian Business Leaders (CBL), welcomes all majors and strives to bring students together under one common purpose: "To foster a Christ-centered organization that encourages service through Christ and leadership in business." No matter the student 's major, he or she will take part in a business process, from creating a resume to interviewing for a job to working with executives in the corporate world. We believe that our Christian values should be incorporated into everything we do, which includes these business processes. Christian Business Leaders has been able to help students understand how to apply their values in the job search and workplace. Our organization has hosted numerous business speakers, including high

At maximum, the topic was only hinted at through a general statement about “Be an example of Christ.” Shawn also hinted at this when he encouraged the youth to bring their friends and in return, he would shave his beard. Conversely, they had a greater focus on discipleship. Through the teaching of Joseph, they learned about trusting God, among other things. While the focus was there, I find that it seemed to be lacking. I believe this youth group is prone to the same weakness as many other ministries. On my visit, they did not attain a true understanding of both the cost and truth of following God. Most likely, the application of discipleship that was addressed is something the students can understand during youth group time, but they will not be able to carry it home with

“In order for a Southern Baptist Church to grow both spiritually and numerically, personal evangelism must be actively pursued by the congregation as a whole.”

The church is in need of major renovation when it comes to making disciples. The concept of making disciples to follow the Lord Jesus Christ seems completely foreign to the church today. In order to achieve the desired goal of making disciples for Christ, training others to go out and proclaim gospel, and helping others to train people to disciple one another, one needs to go back to foundation of the Word of God. It is in God’s Word where multiple examples are found of how to make disciples to follow Jesus Christ. It is my desire to see more people in the church have a passion for discipleship. Therefore, this paper will examine in detail how to make disciples in a ministry context. This will be accomplished by examining the 5 V’s of discipleship—vision, values, views, vehicles, and verifiers. It is my purpose to examine each area in order to have a detailed plan of discipleship that will be used in my own ministry context to make disciples for Christ. I hope that this plan can and will be used to train others in the church to make disciples, and disciple one another, for the glory of God.

Christian education is an intentional process in developing relationship with God for the purpose of fulfilling the mandate to “go and make disciples of all nations, to “preach and teach” the good news of the gospel of Christ, and to build the Kingdom of God. In developing and incorporating evangelism and discipleship into a current Christian education program I believe that involvement of the entire membership of the congregation should be employed (all age

This class has been such a blessing to my life, and it is an honor to create this discipleship strategy for my future ministry. It is the job of the leader of the church to evaluate the spiritual growth of the church, and one of the ways to do this is by measuring expansion growth. This is a tricky subject because there are a lot of ways to define growth. There is transfer growth, which is the swapping of church members from a different congregation. This type of growth is good, but not the best type of growth. While many churches want to see their numbers increase, creating a church that takes away people from surrounding churches is not an ideal term for growth, because no new life change is happening. Tender growth is where people begin

Over the years, many models have been developed and implemented to endeavor to make disciples. Some of the models have been effective and others have not. Among some of the most biblical and efficient models are the ones that involve small groups. Within the small groups models, they can be broken down into further detail, such as pastoral involvement, the church’s goal, missions mindedness, etc. In this paper, I will explain my philosophy of small groups in a church and the importance of the relational group in authentic disciple making. I will also explain how missional groups can help the body of Christ move out into the community. Finally, I will summarize my status in regards to living in community with other believers and being missional with that community.

When God gave me the title for this book I was completely and totally dumbfounded. I was just about to return to work after a three month hiatus, which was used as a period of recuperation from a total knee replacement. My son was graduating from College, my aging parents were all having health issues and I was just started the process of allowing God to birth Speak Life Christian Ministries through me. My time was limited at best, if I am honest, I really had no time to begin the journey of becoming a published author. To be more direct and to the point I really had no desire to become a published author at all. It was as if I was being punished. I did not want to open some of the areas that this book would require me to open. I did not want to revisit my past, not because I am ashamed, but