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So many people who want to be in ministry want to be in it for either themselves, or if they are slightly larger hearted, several people who they already know. I had honestly had people ask me to start a church in their town because their church is struggling and so all the people thatContinue reading “Get Beyond the End of Your Nose 07: All Ministry is to Others”

I have been writing about how discipleship is copying others for a while. You find someone further along tham you and copy them. Today, I want to point you in the direction of one of the best people to copy in the world, and that is Abraham. If you want to be better at theContinue reading “Initial Steps to Discipleship 04: Definitely Copy Abraham”

IDEA #1 Copy what people teach. The book of Luke, according to Acts verse 1 and chapter 1, was penned so we can know what Jesus did and taught. We should copy what Jesus taught, and we should copy what other people teach. I see a lot of ministers want to preach something new andContinue reading “Initial Steps to Discipleship 03: Some Ideas to Be a Better Copier”

Do not be lazy, be a follower (Hebrews 6.12) That verse is a very specific instruction for us to be followers of others. To copy others. We spoke in our first post that the foundation of discipleship is to copy others. The Bible has loads of examples of people copying others, and we can copyContinue reading “Initial Steps to Discipleship 02: How to Be a Good Copier”

Jesus told us that we need to both be disciples and make disciples. I see a lot of people today doing a lot of activity, but not doing the main thing – being and making disciples. So, in the next few posts I want to go right back to the basic, initial steps of discipleship.Continue reading “Initial Steps to Discipleship 01: Learning to Copy”

In Luke 10.25-37, Jesus tells what might be the most famous parable in the Bible, the parable of the good Samaritan. The reason the parable is so popular is that it teaches us such a powerful lesson – we need to care about others. We need to go and do likewise – we need toContinue reading “Get Beyond the End of Your Nose 06: Be the Good Samaritan”

There are good angels. That is where I want to start this series. There are good angels. It seems that charismatics know so much about demons but not much about angels, but two-thirds of the angels stayed good and stayed on God’s side and those angels can freely move from earth to heaven. Did youContinue reading “Angels of God 01: There are Good Angels!”

One of the things that we see whenever we look at the life of Jesus is that he loved others. He loved people different from himself, he loved people not like him, he loved people who hated him. Anyone can love their wife, their children, their husband, their parents. Some people love their gran andContinue reading “Get Beyond the End of Your Nose 05: Even Tax Collectors Love Themselves!”

We can get so obsessed with the benefits of the gospel – we travel far and pay a lot of money to preachers to tell us we are blessed, healed, righteous – and we are all those things, but the church must exist for the lost. Pastors need to lead the way in this –Continue reading “Get Beyond the End of Your Nose 04: Lost Lives Matter!”

One of the main reasons Jesus did not go immediately to the cross when he came to earth was to hang around and train and teach us how to treat other people. The basic default of humanity is to love yourself. But we need to love our neighbour too, and one of the best wayContinue reading “Get Beyond the End of Your Nose 03: Be More Like Jesus!”