Showcase: Assorted Treats

  • Paradigm Questions +

    Paradigm Questions To which of the following commands of Christ’s do you only pay only lip service? Love your enemies Read More
  • July 27 Devotional: FB Meyer +

    He suffered thee to hunger. Deuteronomy 8:3 Read More
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mike-guitar-heroBelow is an interesting blog by Mike Breen about the synergy of discipleship. I encourage you to watch the video, also.

http://mikebreen.wordpress.com/

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by Mike Breen

I feel like one of the key phrases of my understanding of my own life and the life of Jesus is this:Discipleship leads to mission.

 

The two things are synonymous. If you make disciples well, like Jesus did, you will get the missional thing. If you've been traveling with me on this blog for a while, you're probably sick to death of hearing it. But I feel I must continually return to it, you know? In the past thirty years we've seen pastors come out of the church growth movement who have forsaken discipleship for the purpose of mission. "We don't want to be inwardly focused, we want to be outwardly focused." The problem is that Jesus gave us a model for how to do missional and he outwardly focused thing: Make disciples. If we make disciples, we will shape and form people who did all of the things that Jesus did who was, by nature, a missionary sent by his Father. So if we are to be like Jesus, every single one of us must be missionaries. The problem is we aren't too stellar at shaping people who look like Jesus and can do what Jesus could do.

Now we didn't write or produce this video...but I feel like we should have! It so beautifully illustrates what we're going after at 3DM and the various movements that have spawned out of it. Enjoy.


Reflections to Consider

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Publications

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Music

  • Jesus be the centre

    Center is a song that speaks of the essence of our life in Christ, and echoes the words the Christ Read More
  • I Lift My Hands

    A powerful hymn of adoration and praise Arkansas Gospel Mass Choir. This succinctly captures the joy of knowing our savior. Read More
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Audio & Video

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Favorites

  • Transforming this World: The Hope of Glory by NT Wright +

    Wright confronts the perspective that this world doesn’t matter, and that we live only to be in heaven. He shows Read More
  • What is Good in a World that Defies Hope: a talk by NT Wright +

    This is the second part of three talks by NT Wright at Harvard University in November, 2008 on the topic Read More
  • The Stream, the Lake and the River: NT Wright +

      Acts 2.1-21; John 7.37-39; a sermon at the Eucharist on the Feast of Pentecost, 11 May 2008, by the Read More
  • Jesus in the Perfect Storm by NT Wright +

    Zechariah 9.9-17; Luke 19.28-48; A sermon for Palm Sunday, April 17, 2011, In the University Chapel of St Salvator, St Read More
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Hidden Blessings

  • Christ is a Great Savior: a review of the movie Amazing Grace +

    Amazing Grace is a historical drama about William Wilberforce who was elected to British Parliament at the age of 21 Read More
  • Wilberforce, Hollywood's Amazing Grace, Charlotte Allen +

    William Wilberforce's relentless campaign eventually led the British Parliament to ban the slave trade, in 1807, and to pass a Read More
  • Making Beauty out of Ugly Things: Grace by U2 +

    Grace, she takes the blame She covers the shame Removes the stain It could be her name Grace, she carries Read More
  • The True Nature of Grace and Love: a movie review of the Soloist +

    The 2009 movie The Soloist is based on a book by the same name, written by Los Angeles Times columnist Read More
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