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05/29/2026

The goal was never a bigger church.

It was always a deeper one.

A church where every member knows what it means to follow Jesus and is helping someone else do the same. Where disciple making isn't a program on the calendar — it's the culture in the room.

That kind of church doesn't happen by accident. It happens when leaders decide that multiplication matters more than attendance.

Is your church getting deeper?

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05/28/2026

Here's a shift that costs more than most leaders expect.

Josh Howard had to move from being an evangelistic preacher — calling people to Jesus from the front — to being a trainer and coach in the locker room. Training people. Equipping them. Sending them out onto the field.

And he's honest about what that cost him. His own desires. His ego. His dreams of being the one up front doing the thing.

But here's what he learned — if you want to see a movement of God spread, you have to lay down the celebrity culture. You have to lay down the need to be in control. You have to empower people and let them go.

And yes — it gets messy sometimes.

But you can't multiply what you won't release.

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05/27/2026

Josh Howard went to India expecting to pour into believers there.

What he didn't expect was coming home feeling like his own love for Jesus looked more like liking Jesus than actually loving him.

He borrows a phrase from Kyle Idleman that cuts right to the heart of it — many of us who think we love Jesus are actually just fans of Jesus. Not followers.

Fans admire from a distance. Followers surrender everything.

The Indian believers Josh met weren't fans. They were followers. And the difference was visible in everything about how they lived.

It raises a question worth sitting with today — am I a fan or a follower?

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05/27/2026

Here's a question worth sitting with this week.

If someone followed you around for 30 days — watched how you spent your time, your energy, and your relationships — would they see a disciple maker?

Not a church attender. Not a ministry volunteer. A disciple maker.

Someone intentionally helping the people around them follow Jesus, be changed by Jesus, and join the mission of Jesus.

That's the standard. And it starts with us.

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05/26/2026

Disciple making isn't a program you run.
It's a life you live.

It happens in the car. At the dinner table. In the coffee shop. In the hard conversation you almost avoided.

Jesus didn't make disciples in a classroom. He made them in the everyday moments of life.

So do we.

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05/26/2026

He went to India to lead. They led him instead.

Josh Howard thought he was going to India to convert people to Christianity. What happened caught him completely off guard — the Indian Christians converted him into a real disciple of Jesus.

They took Scripture seriously. They took what it meant to follow Jesus seriously. And it showed in everything about how they lived.

Josh came back a different person. And he carries a simple conviction now — if we can make a commitment to take Scripture seriously, to own what it really means to be a disciple of Jesus, to actually look and act and love like he does, our churches and our world will be radically changed.

That's not a program. That's a life surrendered.

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05/25/2026

Today we honor the men and women who gave everything so we could live in freedom.

Their sacrifice deserves more than a long weekend.

Thank you to every fallen soldier and every family who bears that loss.

05/24/2026

What does it look like when Jesus is truly the treasure worth everything?

Josh Howard shares about meeting 16, 17, and 18-year-old believers who knew saying yes to Jesus meant getting kicked out of their families and their villages. They knew it could cost them their lives.

And they said yes anyway.

These young people weren't weighing the cost against their comfort. They had already decided. Jesus was the treasure in the field and they were ready to sell everything to have him.

They came to Josh and said — I'm ready to give my life for the gospel. I'm ready to go preach. I'm ready to lead people to Jesus.

It wrecked him. And it should wreck us too.

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05/23/2026

Loving people will cost you.

But discipling someone — really investing in them — is spiritual parenting. And Paul showed us exactly what that looks like.

Gentle. Invested. Exemplary. Challenging.

Swipe through the 4 practices of a spiritual parent from Craig Etheredge's blog.

05/22/2026

Say the word "football" in Liverpool and you'll get a very different answer than you would in Dallas.

Same word. Totally different thing.

That's exactly what's happened with "discipleship" in the church. We use the word all the time — but what Jesus actually meant by it looks a lot different than most of our programs and classes.

Jesus spent His ministry poured into a small group. Twelve, mostly. Three, closely.

And from that small, intentional investment — a movement changed the world.

That's what a Discipleship Group is. Three to five believers, intentional about pouring into each other's lives and living out the Great Commission together.

Not a class. Not a program. A relationship with a mission.

Read the full post at the link below.

https://discipleship.org/blog/what-is-a-discipleship-group/

The Discipleship Group is one of the most powerful tools the Church has today to help us become the believers Jesus commissioned...

05/21/2026

How do you lead with wisdom when the world around you feels like it's on fire?

Jim Putman tackles that question head on in his latest post — and points to one of the most relevant biblical examples for the moment we're in right now.

Daniel didn't water down his beliefs in a foreign culture. He also didn't strike out in anger against the authorities around him. He prayed for them. Served them with love. And stayed laser focused on the God he knew.

In a world that pulls us left and right and tries to get us distracted and discouraged — that's still the model.

Wisdom from above is pure, peace loving, gentle, and full of mercy. James 3 makes that clear. And it's exactly what church leaders need right now.

Read the full post
https://discipleship.org/blog/wisdom-under-fire/

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“Wisdom is the quality of discerning what is true, what is ethically right, and what should be done in different situations.” That...