The Discipleship Mirage – Part 2: The Quest for a Comprehensive Approach to Discipleship Training

July 12, 2023   |  

[You can read Part 1, What is the Discipleship Mirage?, at: http://www.marketfaith.org/2023/07/the-discipleship-mirage-part-1-what-is-the-discipleship-mirage/] My personal journey down the road of helping churches put a focus on discipleship training began with my missionary experience. My wife and I served nearly 17 years as missionaries in two different countries – nearly 12…
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The Discipleship Mirage – Part 1: What is the Discipleship Mirage?

July 6, 2023   |  

Back in the day when most churches had regular church programs on Sunday mornings, Sunday evenings, and Wednesday evenings, there was a predictable pattern regarding attendance. The largest attendance was in the Sunday morning worship service, with the next largest being in the Bible study program that happened prior to…
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Why Do Some Churches Promote Non-biblical Beliefs?

June 15, 2023   |  

Over that last several decades, a number of Christian denominations have split in an acrimonious way. The splits have pretty much all been about the same thing. All of these denominations began as traditional Bible believing groups, but within each one there slowly developed a faction that began viewing the…
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How to Solve the Church Discipleship Dilemma

June 6, 2023   |  

In practical terms, this article may be one of the most important that I have ever written. It addresses a problem and offers a solution to one of the churches’ most fundamental struggles in modern society. There is a lot of talk these days about the need to strengthen discipleship…
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