by Jeff Vanderstelt
Jesus commanded us to make disciples who make disciples. We can make disciples formally and informally. In formal discipleship you need to consider all that you want people to:
Know – key doctrines all people should know
Believe – truths that motivate and transform your identity and behavior
Do – the activities that the gospel leads us to practice
Informal discipleship, in conjunction with formal discipleship is crucial in making followers of Jesus who both hear and obey.
5 ways church planters make disciples informally:
1. Encourage a disciple-making culture.
God commanded through Moses (Deuteronomy 6) and Jesus commanded the disciples (Matt. 28:18-20) to develop a disciple-making culture where all of life becomes the platform for ...
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Today is the kick off to the Denver Boot Camp. This is the place where mission continues and Men Engage the world. Keep posted for updates on the camp as well as audio from our Acts 29 speakers.
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The first-ever Acts 29 Church Planting Conference in Brazil was held in Rio de Janeiro on May 17-19, 2010. Men from over eight states in Brazil as well as from Chile participated in the International bootcamp, entitled “Foundations of Church Planting.” The conference was co-sponsored by Restore Brazil (V360), Tempo de Colheita, and Escola Teologica Reformada.
Pastors Chan Kilgore, Gregg Heinsch, Adam Sinnett and Jay Bauman gave the presentations on the foundational elements of church planting. All the bootcamp’s manual and theological material was carefully translated to Portuguese by a professional translator.
Antonio Carlos Costa, a movement leader in Brazil, spoke of the relationship between social justice & the gospel. Antonio recently presented ...
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By Pastor Scott Thomas, President, Acts 29 Network
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
I love YouTube and I hate YouTube. I walked into the office one day and declared, “YouTube is of the Devil!” The reason that I love it is that one has access to all kinds of normal, subnormal and mostly abnormal behaviors uploaded by anyone with a simple camera and a computer. Did you see the self-affirming little girl singing to herself in the mirror? Don’t click on it. I also hate YouTube because, well, I waste time watching 4 year olds sing in the mirror.
YouTube is also the place where any doctrinally deficient doofus can display a less than systematic theology. I recently showed a YouTube video to an Acts 29 pastor of a “preacher” advocating ...
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Part Two
By Pastor Scott Thomas
Part One is found here
Sola Scriptura is a Latin phrase that literally means “By Scripture Alone.” Sola Scriptura is the doctrine that the Bible is the only infallible and inerrant authority for Christian faith, and that it contains all knowledge necessary for salvation and holiness.
I preached sola scriptura to the church where I was lead pastor. My son who was 16 at the time had a girlfriend that he really liked. It was his first girlfriend. I picked him after a school event one day and he told me, “Well, it’s over.” After he explained to me that he meant he broke it off with his girlfriend, I asked him what happened. He said, “She’s just not sola scriptura, Dad.”
In Part One, we looked at the first of ...
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