Content and Application

by Jeff Tunnell Last evening I dialogued with a long-term educator and school principal.  We conversed about learning methods and how evidence shows that lectureis the least effective for the student to grasp content.  He noted that the second best situation for...

Discipleship Equipping

by Joel Comiskey The word training is too mechanical,” a pastor friend recently told me. “I want to equip my people in a relational way, and when you talk about thetraining track, it sounds like producing robots in a factory.” I argued my case, but I...

Making the Plain Things the Main Things

by Joel Comiskey Over this past month, we’ve discussed various strategies that help us go deeper in making disciples. Some of the bloggers have pointed to Jesus and his three as an example of more intimate discipleship. Abe Huber has emphasized one-on-one...

Discipleship in Groups of Three

Discipleship in Groups of Three by Jeff Boersma [Jeff Boersma planted a cell church in Michigan with the Christian Reformed Church. He now serves as a coach.  He has served as a Senior Pastor, Co-Pastor, and Church Planter] We call our micro cells “triads.” We have...

Make More Disciples by Making Less

By Michael C. Mack The best cell leader ever formed a small team that would eventually change the world. But first, Jesus called two sets of brothers: Simon Peter, Andrew, James, and John. Three of these, Peter, James, and John, became Jesus’ inner circle, his Core...