'discipleship' Tagged Posts

'discipleship' Tagged Posts

Deprived or Scroungers? Working in Housing Schemes

Benefit claimants have been in the news again this week and it prompted me to dig out an old post and somewhat adapt it. I definitely want to blog more on this topic and I am hoping to include a chapter in my upcoming book. For now, here is an old article on the BBC website. Please take the time to…

How Our Leaders Are Losing Their Grip & Why We’re Happy About It

I recently spent a couple of days away with our Ministry Team in order to discuss polices, have some concentrated teaching and enjoy a bit of fun and fellowship. We try to do it every year in order to welcome any new faces into the fold. This year there were 13 people and their families present.…

Faith Comes By Hearing

“Faith Comes By Hearing”  is a good resource site for those of us who work with people who find it difficult to read. One of the things we are currently considering at NCC is filming more Bible studies and building a contextualised, oral resource library for our ministry. If anybody knows of any similar resources or is interested in helping us develop material…

How Too Much Discipleship Was Hurting Our New Christians

Our current church membership stands at about 55, with another 15 or so waiting in the wings to be baptised. We have a Sunday attendance of anywhere between 70 and 100 (I suspect that’s roughly the same number of urinals found at any Mars Hill Church). By any description we are a small…

How Do We Disciple Former Drug Addicts? (Part 2)

By Andy Constable Last week we started by looking at some of the things we need to know when we are discipling drug addicts who have come to Christ and are rebuilding their lives. We looked at some of the things that you the discipler will need to look out for. This week I want to look at some of…

How Do We Disciple Former Drug Addicts?

By Andy Constable We live in a community that has been heavily damaged by drugs. Most of the people that we work with have a steady diet of prescribed as well as street (unprescribed) drugs running through their system everyday. We have seen a handful of addicts over the last few years saved by the gospel and wonderfully changed by God. Is there anything that we need to…