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Hearers and Doers: A Pastor’s Guide to Making Disciples through Scripture and Doctrine is unavailable, but you can change that!

The foundation of discipleship is sound, scriptural doctrine. The value of sound doctrine is often misunderstood by the modern church. While it can be dry and dull, when it flows from the story of Scripture, it can be full of life and love. This kind of doctrine, steeped in Scripture, is critical for disciple-making. And it’s often overlooked by modern pastors. In Hearers and Doers, Kevin...

Paul then exhorts Timothy to have nothing to do with other social imaginaries (“profane myths and old wives’ tales,” 1 Tim 4:7a NRSV) and instead “train yourself for godliness” (1 Tim 4:7b). The Greek for “train” is gymnazō. There you have it: the church is to be a gym for training in godliness. Disciples need a diet of Scripture and doctrine in order to get the nourishment necessary for training. And training is necessary “because orthodoxy (believing correctly) turns hypocritical apart from orthopraxy
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