Disciple Maker Tools & Resources

Yelp is an online review site where people share their perceptions of local businesses. Often before my wife tries a new restaurant, she will check the yelp reviews just to see what it might be like to eat there. Recently I left my first ever review of a barbecue place...

12-18 months is a long commitment. It feels even longer to people when the weather is great and vacations are on the calendar. The summer months are challenging to keep the momentum of your D-Group, mainly because of the busyness of life. But when things start competing for time with...

A few months back I was looking for a way to get a guy from my discipleship group into an evangelistic conversation. I took him to the mall to see if there might be someone hanging out in the food court that we could engage for his training. When we...

We live in a fast paced world. Everything is on the go, we must get things done and move on to the next item on the agenda. If we aren't careful, this frantic pace can bleed into our walk with Christ and begin to drain the power of abiding in...

Fear. Anger. Sadness. Confusion. Discouragement. These are just some of the emotions that have flowed in and out of my heart over the last few weeks. After watching videos of two more senseless deaths of unarmed black men. Seeing riots, looting, and violence against police in our city. Reading an...

Our motives in everything we do truly matter to God. That includes leading D-Groups and investing in people. In 1 Thessalonians 2, Paul describes how he invested his life and the gospel with the people there. In verse 8 he begins by saying, "So, being affectionately desirous of you...", and...

This week Ruth McCoy will answer one of the questions submitted to the Disciple Makers Forum. The question is "What is a good time to start asking a person you are discipling questions about where they are spiritually and what is a good way to do that?" Ruth helps us...

Evangelism is something we know followers of Jesus should be about. We preach sermons about it, we read books about it, and most of us know one or more methods for doing it. But how many of us feel accountable to do it? Maybe a better way to phrase that...

Another question submitted to the Disciple Makers forum had to deal with faithful evangelism, and it was this: "What is the best way to answer someone if I am trying to share the gospel and they ask a question that I am not sure about the correct answer?" This has...