From Crowds to Disciples

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been exploring what it means to build a discipling culture — not as a program, but as a way of life. Last week, Mark talked about Jesus’ approach to engaging with three different groups of people. The crowds, the seekers, and his...

Discovery Bible Method

When my brother was attending a Methodist High School, he made it his mission to smuggle Bibles out of his school library. He viewed Christianity through cultural lens, i.e. that Christianity was nothing more than a tool of Western imperialism. He took absolute...

Person of Peace – the gospel spreads to europe

In Acts 16, we have the apostle Paul leading a team for the first time to disciple believers in their faith and to disciple unbelievers to faith. One night, Paul received a vision from God of a man begging him to come over to Macedonia (vs 9). This encounter led Paul...

Person of Peace

Luke 10:1-7 If we are to make disciples as Jesus commands, it makes perfect sense that we take a leaf out of his book. That’s because his discipleship approach/model contains cross-generational truths which can be applied to our context and one of those truths we see...

Journey to the cross

…And so, we reach the first Sunday in Lent. But what does it mean to the average Baptist? Does Lent have a place in our worship of Jesus? We Baptists don’t usually take Lent seriously. As a child, I saw it as something Roman Catholics and Anglicans did, often...

When following jesus feels like a juggling act

finances, friendships, church, rest, health — we’re trying to keep a lot of balls in the air. And if we’re honest, we drop them… sometimes or often.  Many of us would say, “I’m a Christian”, but always feel like we are not meeting this “standard”. We love...