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Insourcing: Bringing Discipleship Back to the Local Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

Too many of today’s pastors and leaders mistakenly think that thriving programs, lively worship services, and relevant preaching are adequate for developing people into the spiritual dynamos God desires. In many churches, the primary objective of the church—personally discipling individuals into mature followers of Jesus—has been “outsourced” to large-scale programs. But are people truly being...

mission of Jesus, and as a result, their hunger for the Word increases. I tell the men I disciple to think of their mission as their exercise and the Word as their food. Both are essential, but mission drives nurture. The fifth emphasis is supplication. Supplication is a synonym for prayer. I use it instead of prayer because TEAMP doesn’t sound as good as TEAMS. The name is not important, but its practice is. We’re talking about praying for each other and with each other. During the supplication