Getting Grounded in the Disciplines
Three Weeks! ? Three Weeks! ? Three Weeks! After a person encounters Jesus Christ through the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, all that Satan needs to get someone back […]
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Parish Transition To Making Disciples 10: Making The Final Painful Shift
I believe that we have reached the final place that will require the most faith and trust that the Holy Spirit will have to lead us to move forward. It […]
Parish Transition To Making Disciples Part 8: Transition To Real Results
No factory is going to start up with the intention of producing nothing. They will set up their goals, create their designs, manufacture the parts, assemble them together and TEST […]
Parish Transition To Making Disciples Part 7: Faith In The Message
We are all afraid of going adrift because we don’t know where it will take us. I can totally understand that fear. I also appreciate the integrity of the bishops […]
Parish Transition To Making Disciples Part 5: The Critical Point of Letting Go
What makes this process of Parish Transformation so difficult is that we are going into uncharted waters. The fear almost paralyzes us into inactivity. Like a person holding onto the […]
Parish Transition To Making Disciples Part 4: Retooling the Factory
For the sake of conversation, let us imagine that the list I provided in the previous blog post (Part 2), was “the” criterion we were going to use to define […]
Parish Transition To Making Disciples Part 3: Tooling Up Disciples First
I frequently get asked about the process of making disciples. While I believe that we critically need to start making disciples, I get the sense that we are not ready […]
Parish Transition To Making Disciples Part 2: Defining A Disciple
I believe that “being a good person” has long become the hallmark of being a disciple. While being good is certainly a characteristic of a disciple, it falls short of […]
Parish Transition To Making Disciples Part 1: All Aboard
For those parishes that are really serious about wanting to fulfill the true mission of making disciples, there is a question constantly before them. “How do we transform our parish […]
Making Disciples Will Require A Paradigm Shift Part 2
So if we had the freedom to explore “outside the box” of current parish structures, what might we examine to help us move forward? We know having a vision is […]