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Christianity Without Discipleship Is Christianity Without Christ
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Discipleship means adherence to Christ, and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An abstract Christology, a doctrinal system, a general religious knowledge on the subject of grace or on the forgiveness of sins, render discipleship superfluous, and in fact they positively exclude any idea of discipleship…
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Bottleneck Discipleship
Churches stop growing when disciples are not being empowered. It is a proven fact – the way to kill a church is to not empower people to make disciples. You can have a great program and a nice worship hall but if you are not empowering people – you can’t grow. We create bottlenecks when…
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The Sorsogon Prayer Miracle
Sorsogon has been known as a typhoon city but ever since 2007 something miraculous happened. Bicol prayer power summoned against typhoon LEGAZPI CITY, 2007 — Climatologists may have the explanation for Typhoon Mina swinging away from the Bicol Region last weekend, but to Bicolanos, the answer was simple enough: typhoon Mina veered because of the…
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Pray Like a Child
Mark 10:14-1514 When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 15 Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never…
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Why We are Scared to Pray and Fast
The praying life reveals the heart.When we pray we are being unmasked. We expose what is inside of us. We become vulnerable to God and ourselves. We don’t like it and we are scared but we know we need to do it. Only in a praying life do we acknowledge that we have a needy…