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Study after study has confirmed that groups that try to start with a goal of community, and hope somehow to move toward a mission, almost never get there. A mission must be the organizing principle of the group. When we start with a mission, we always get the community, because we band together for a common goal, because we’ll need to care for one another in the midst of the battle of the mission.
This is the story of a disciple who is making disciples in a radical way among those who hate the message of the gospel. Filmed and edited by @davegrumme with the help of @pastorahsh on a Keystone Project training trip.
Effective discipleship builds the church, not the other way around. We need to understand the church as the effect of discipleship and not the cause. If you set out to build the church, there is no guarantee you will make disciples. It is far more likely that you will create…
Disciples are not merely learners but fruit-bearing disciple-makers; they multiply themselves.
Fundamentally, effective leadership is based upon an invitation to relationship and a challenge to change. A gifted discipler is someone who invites people into a covenental relationship with him or her, but challenges that person to live into his or her true identity in very direct yet graceful ways.
@Lecrae is a part of a growing movement of those calling the church to multiple disciples who make disciples. Buy this song and the entire album here.
This infograph put together by City Church of Woodbine captures vividly a disciple making movement and how it overflows into a movements of church planting as well. (The image above is only a small preview of the entire thing).
The secret of success in this work lies in beginning at the very beginning. It is the training of the first converts which sets the type for the future. If the first converts are taught to depend upon the missionary, if all work, evangelistic, educational, social is concentrated in his hands, the infant community learns…
Christianity in its purest form is a movement. A movement is “a diffusely organized or heterogeneous group of people tending toward or favoring a generalized common goal.” A movement occurs when people are connected to a shared cause or purpose. The shared connecting points of a movement could be Vision Goals Values Identity Passion Achievement Purpose Affiliation To bring people into…
Defining our Terms The Keystone Project philosophy promotes a major shift in the way the Church engages the lost, calling for the multiplication of Spirit-led followers of Jesus Christ who live radical kingdom lives to reach the unreached. This paradigm shift requires the development of a pattern of thinking and behavior which is, in many respects, the opposite of…
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The Keystone Project is a global missions network of churches and leaders committed to the fulfillment of the Great Commission in this generation.