Discipleship
Or lack thereof. The elephant in the Christian church today is that we are not seeing robust disciple-making taking place. You are more likely to find evangelicals affirming that there is more than one way to get to heaven today than you were 15 or 20 years ago. Why? We’ve done great at getting them in the door and occupying their spiritual appetites, but we’ve done terrible at actually growing them up and grounding them in the faith.
Many churches are now rediscovering ways to push more depth from the Sunday morning stage, better ways to assimilate the crowds into small groups and discipling relationships, more organic ways to nurture spiritual formation, and stronger ways to create missional expansion in their communities and around the world.
To address the trend, we need to get serious about teaching believers who they are in Christ and how they are to live that out.
Trends matter–we look at them to see where we are, and they help us to consider what we should be doing. With God’s grace and discerning leadership, we can address these trends in biblically driven ways as we engage the future together.
