While we, too, may be drawn to fix upon the spectacular nature of this final miracle, which brings life back to a dead person ...

The mandate is clear: “Go and make disciples.” It’s the final, foundational command Jesus gave before ascending to heaven, the very heartbeat of the Church. Yet, new data from Lifeway Research’s ...

On behalf of The Navigators and NavPress, Barna Group studies the state of Protestant spiritual growth. Protestant pastors are too hard on their churches. Either that, or churchgoers are too easy on ...

Discipleship is a topic we often don’t give enough time and emphasis to in churches today. If we boil it down to its essentials, there are basically three facets to discipleship: (1) becoming a ...

Lifeway Research’s State of Discipleship study surveyed Protestant pastors about their churches’ discipleship practices. Only ...

The widening divide between casual Christianity and committed discipleship presents both our greatest challenge and our most important opportunity. While our congregations successfully attract ...

Many pastors in the United States say discipleship is essential in their churches, but most lack clear ways to measure it, according to the results of a study conducted by Lifeway Research. The study, ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran theologian, wrote a series of reflections on the Sermon on the Mount entitled The Cost of Discipleship, in which he maintained that discipleship requires us to ...

What is the underlying cultural script or metanarrative that guides the values and lives of 21st-century North Americans? And in what ways does the Bible offer an alternative and opposing cultural ...