Discipleship Equipping Principles

by Joel Comiskey Most churches pass through multiple revisions of their equipping before finding the right fit. Initial failure often happens because a church tries to copy another church’s equipping model in its entirety. Most often the church realizes eventually...

One Example of an Equipping Track

by Steve Cordle, www.crossroadsumc.org How does someone become an Olympic marathon runner? One step at a time. Through coaching and training, a runner develops through one level of competition after another, until finally he or she is lining up for an international...

Discipleship Equipping

by Joel Comiskey There are two major points to remember when selecting equipping material for your cell church. First, is it biblical? Does it reflect the pure doctrine “once delivered by the saints”? Second, is it connected with your cell church philosophy? In other...

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...