12 Guidelines for Small Group Discussions – Creating Safe Environments Where Relationships Can Grow
Is your small group a safe environment where relationships can grow, or do you find that you have a hard time getting people to connect? Connecting with and developing relationships with other believers outside of a weekend service is very important to our spiritual and mental health – God hardwired us to be in relationship […]
How To Engage With Other Cultures Without Putting Your Foot In Your Mouth
In this episode of the Real For Life podcast, Lance Wigton speaks with Real Life’s International Discipleship Team members Dave Campbell and Paul Byrns. They discuss the ins and outs of engaging in conversation and relationship with people from culture that is different from your own. This is an important ability when we are trying […]
The Church Sphere Resources
This is the Body of Christ, our Spiritual family that encompasses all that Jesus intended for His Church, and what was modeled by the first disciples in the book of Acts. This includes being devoted to teaching, to fellowship and to prayer. Taking communion together, meeting in large and small groups, giving to the Lord’s […]
The Core of Discipleship – Jim Putman
In recent years, “discipleship” has become the new buzzword. As a result, we’ve seen churches begin to make a shift toward helping people grow in their spiritual maturity, and utilize the best means to that end. Leaders have begun to recognize that disciple making involves spending time with the person being discipled outside of a […]
Controversial Week 4
Critical Race Theory and Racism Why are we talking about Racism and CRT? • Help our kids get ready for the world – Create unity within the body of Christ -To act wisely with unbelievers • What is a race? (new changes made recently to definition) A group of people identified as distinct from other […]
Real-Life Discipleship Training Manual
This companion training manual to Real-Life Discipleship provides unique guidance and insight to pastors, church leaders, and their disciples as they work to create an effective discipleship program. With a thorough, results-oriented process that can be applied in other contexts and cultures, this manual explains the necessary components of disciple-making so that every church member […]
We Are Created For Relationship – With God And Others
God has created all of us to connect, to create deep and lasting relationship. Science only discovers what God has already revealed in the Scriptures about His creation and its design. In 2003 the Commission on Children at Risk published a study called Hardwired to Connect: The New Scientific Case for Authoritative Communities. The commission, […]
Life Hacks: Week 3
HAVE YOU EVER SAID SOMETHING THAT YOU WISH YOU COULD IMMEDIATELY TAKE BACK? Examples of how powerful words are: Will you marry me? You are beautiful. You are worthless. You are guilty. You are innocent. I love you. PEOPLE WHO HAVE WISDOM USE THEIR WORDS IN WAYS THAT GLORIFY GOD. YOU CANNOT HAVE GODLY WISDOM […]
Life Hacks: Week 4
Purity: the condition or quality of being pure; freedom from anything that debases, contaminates, pollutes. Walking in purity means choosing to love and obey God more than anything or anyone else and expressing that love and obedience by wholeheartedly devoting your life to God. • Walking in purity is the expression of our spiritual character. […]
Cultivate Kindness: Week 6
KINDNESS THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT: KINDNESS Galatians 5:22-23 (NLT) But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things! • We should be kind to others. We all know it. The Bible instructs us to […]
You Are A Disciple: Episode 1
I am excited to share with you this first episode of The Real Life Ministries Discipleship Podcast. In this podcast we will be discussing all things discipleship. We want to address some of the issues around being and making disciples that people struggle with, but may not want to ask for help in. Those issues […]
How To Disciple In Your Community: Episode 6
In this weeks podcast, Lance Wigton, Real Life Ministries Communication Pastor talks with Rex Lettau, Real Life Ministries Benevolence and Lifelines Pastor, about taking discipleship outside of your building and into your community. Rex discusses how he is leading a team to do this on an organizational level, and how you can and should do […]