by Matt Barker | Aug 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
8/21/23 by Larry Barker Recently I was listening to a podcast, Making Disciples, with Robby Gallaty. It was the March 27, 2022 episode Keeping the Fire Burning. He stated, “The habits we do on a daily basis create the person you are.” II Corinthians 4:16 says,...
by Matt Barker | Aug 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
8/6/23 by Larry Barker Our good friend Bill Elliff, in The Presence Centered Church, quotes his mentor Manley Beasley as saying, “The mark of a godly man and the mark of a godly church is that everything they do is God-initiated.” Bill states, “Everything flows from...
by Matt Barker | Aug 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
7/31/23 by Larry Barker 2023 is here and another year of opportunity is before us. A new year brings evaluation of what we need to change, what we need to do differently, and what we can do better. We seem to be enamored with the “how” of ministry far more than the...
by Matt Barker | Jul 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
7/14/2023 by Larry Barker Healthy churches reproduce. The healthiest and most biblical method of church planting is churches planting churches. In The American Church in Crisis, David Olson states that over 600,000 churches will need to be planted by the year 2050...
by Matt Barker | Jul 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
7/7/23 by Larry Barker Warren Wiersbe described discipleship as “a daily discipline; we follow Jesus a step at a time, a day at a time.” Paul’s command in I Timothy 4:7 is to train ourselves as disciplined disciples who follow Christ, pursue holiness, and train for...
by Matt Barker | Jun 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
6/26/23 by Larry Barker Paul emphasizes training and spiritual disciplines in I Timothy 4:7. “Train yourself in godliness.” Then in verse 11 he gives us the principle of discipling others in spiritual disciplines by exhorting (commanding) us to teach them and...
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