Brandon Boyd

  In my last update, I mentioned that discipleship leaders (in any discipleship environment) have two main responsibilities. Two responsibilities of a discipleship leader are to: 1. Understand people’s spiritual maturity 2. Understand people’s next step to greater spiritual maturity. Once we identify where people are spiritually, our task is to help them take the next step of spiritual maturity. Lincoln Christian Church has adapted a discipleship process from Real Life Ministries in Post Falls, Idaho.  This illustration identifies what steps are needed to help people take their next steps.  For example, to help a person in through the Discover phase, we need to: Share our lives with them, Share new basic truths with them, and Share new habits of a Growing Christian (prayer, Bible reading, giving, serving, sharing their personal testimony).  The second page of this tool gives some more specific “Growth Goals” for each phase of spiritual maturity. This is a powerful to...

  Here is an article from “The Vision Room” a blog that I read regularly.  Here are some thoughts on how what it means to be a discipleship leader. Over the years, I have worked in a variety of fields, gaining exposure to many different industries. Each industry has unique jargon. Have you ever worked on a cat cracker or executed a turnaround? If so, you probably worked in a refinery. In church, we throw the word ‘discipleship’ around like everybody knows what it means. We talk about needing more of it and how we are really going to focus on it next semester. I was not well versed in church terminology, so I did a bit of research on the word. In addition to discovering this funny video from Tripp and Tyler, I found the major theme of discipleship was ‘following in the ways of someone else’. I love the practical nature of this approach. It is not about reading more books and listening to more sermons or getting another degree. In fairness, I love knowledge and I loved school wh...