What if knowing God’s will for your life was not as complicated as it seems? pic courtesy pdpics.com I have a friend who has struggled for a very long time to understand what God’s plan is for him. Like all of us, he longs to know that he’s in “the center of God’s will.” He’sContinue reading “God’s Will: Can It be Found and Followed?”
Tag Archives: Discipleship
Not Opposed to Effort: Solutions for Better Discipleship (solution #2)
(This post is the 5th and final blog in a series about the nature of discipleship in our churches today.) Making disciples is what the Church was made by God to do. In this series I explain why we aren’t doing it well (Read it here) and two things that stand in our wayContinue reading “Not Opposed to Effort: Solutions for Better Discipleship (solution #2)”
Not Opposed to Effort: Solutions for Better Discipleship (solution #1)
(This post is the 4th blog in a series about the nature of discipleship in our churches today.) In the first post of this series (Read it here) I argued that the American church’s misunderstanding of the phrase “grace is enough” causes us to miss out on what it truly means to be disciples ofContinue reading “Not Opposed to Effort: Solutions for Better Discipleship (solution #1)”
Not Opposed to Effort: The Second Roadblock to Discipleship
(This post is the 3rd blog in a series about the nature of discipleship in our churches today.) In the first post of this series (Read it here) I argued that the American church’s misunderstanding of the phrase “grace is enough” causes us to misrepresent the Christian life and miss out on what it trulyContinue reading “Not Opposed to Effort: The Second Roadblock to Discipleship”
Not Opposed to Effort: Two Roadblocks to Discipleship
(This post is the 2nd in a series about the nature of discipleship in our churches today. Click here to read the first post.) In last week’s post (Read it here) I argued that our misunderstanding of the oft-used phrase “grace is enough” causes us to misrepresent the Christian life and miss out on whatContinue reading “Not Opposed to Effort: Two Roadblocks to Discipleship”
Not Opposed to Effort: The Work of Discipleship
Grace is not enough. That sentence alone will send the reformed crowd into orbit, and it just might make the rest of you scramble for Bible verses that refute works-based righteousness. But when I was recently asked to comment on Christian discipleship today, I could not help but think that grace is not enough. ObviouslyContinue reading “Not Opposed to Effort: The Work of Discipleship”
THE FOLLOWER'S LIFE 