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Community & Fellowship Articles
Eight Keys for Building Community to Foster Discipleship
This article is written by Reid Smith to identify ways to build community that fosters discipleship.
February 20, 2025
Planning for Disciple Making in 2025
This article is about discipleship and leading people to Jesus, written by John Paul Basham.
January 7, 2025
Three Ways to Engage Young Men in Your Ministry
Though it may be true that women will attract men to church, it is a short-term/short-sighted solution to reaching the men in our colleges and communities. May we be challenged as ministry leaders to "get the guys," so everyone will come.
March 19, 2024
- David Lorenz
Walking in Faith Doesn't Have to be DIY
To properly understand faith and discipleship, a person can’t seek to do it himself. He must prepare to die to himself.
February 17, 2023
Show Extravagant Generosity to One Another
We are our brother’s keepers. We are siblings in the Lord. Caring for the family of God is one of the ways we participate with the living God in the restoration and renewal of the world, starting with our own families and faith communities.
April 18, 2022
The Pursuit of True Discipleship
Simply put, a disciple is a lifelong learner of Jesus Christ — someone who truly follows after Him all the days of her life. You actively choose to put yourself in an atmosphere and environment to follow after Him, to constantly be changed into His image on this side of eternity.
March 17, 2022
Find Joy and Unity as the Body of Christ
Our understanding of who God is informs everything about the way we make peace with our past, live in the present, look to the future, and interact with others around us. Knowing Him better changes the way we know ourselves. Knowing Him better changes the way we love others.
August 31, 2021
How Is Hospitality Different from Entertaining?
Biblical hospitality offers our best to Him first, understanding that our best to others will then fall into place. It transforms our selfish motives and elevates our guest.
April 30, 2020
Tribalism and the Image of God
Yet they’ll be united in their worship of the Lamb of God, who tore down the hostility that separated them. Because tribalism, racism, and division are sewn into the fabric of human history and culture, we need to see this newfound cross-centered unity as nothing short of a miracle whenever it emerges. This is a snapshot of the imago Dei restored to humanity: a wildly diverse community of people united in worship together.
February 11, 2019
Changing How the Church Reaches Its Community
Changes in the religious landscape in America means that the church needs to re-evaluate how we reach our communities.
September 14, 2017
