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05/22/2008 - Greg, I read your article on the 21st Century Restoration and it rang loudly in my life. I grew up in the church of Christ, was a Sunday school teacher, deacon, elder, small group leader, etc. But when we moved away from our childhood town after 40+ years, my wife and I decided to explore other churches because of the persistent view of exclusiveness many church of Christers

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05/12/2008 - I'm responding to the call to write about discipleship plans or strategies of our churches today.I do happen to be a Christian from the influence of World Bible School evangelism strategy. I started doing World Bible School correspondence courses a year before I decided to become a christian. My attraction to these well decorated papers was simply because I wanted to have a friend

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05/11/2008 - I am a member of the Central Church of Christ in Sarasota, Florida and Rod Myers is our minister.  Even though it's a relatively small congregation, we have at least 50% or more actively involved weekly in "Making Disciples Who Make Disciples.  The fuel of the discipling ministry is the gospel and driven by our hunger and thirst to know God.   We meet one-on-one with someone for at

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05/10/2008 - I was wondering all the same things you asked about evangelism until I read Just Walk Across the Room by Bill Hybels. This book changed my entire perspective on evangelism, and I've been wondering how to do it for about 40 years. I can say more about it, if you want.My perspective of the church's approach to evangelism is that we have trained individuals to go teach, but have given

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05/09/2008 - Hello, I'm on your mailing list and just read about the upcoming issue on discipling. The news excited me because of an effort with which I'm involved, i.e. a ministry designed to get beyond "church programming" and focus on pratical and authentic disciple making.I direct a non-profit discipling ministry based in Murfreesboro, TN known as "The Timothy Network." We launched in

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05/09/2008 - Hello Wineskins, My personal story of discipling ... My husband would call it nosiness. That "Do you know so-and-so?" syndrome. I call it trying to help people connect. A woman my age (40 something) had grown up at the church my family attends. Tracy was married and had one preteen son. In the almost 20 years I had seen her, I would not have recognized her husband because of the

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05/09/2008 - The first thing that comes to my mind regarding how we should approach discipling today is what we have been doing at Donelson Church of Christ since 2000, and that is, "home churches.#&34;The shepherds have encouraged everyone to be in a small group of believers so that relationships in Christ can develop quickly and more deeply, so that practical applications of the Word can be

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