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The good news? 92% of Americans claim a belief in a diety greater than themselves. On the other hand, Californians are markedly different than the rest of the nation: But California, like other states along the country’s two coasts, resisted the prevailing national tendencies. Californians are less likely than other Americans to consider religion “very [...]

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What would be on your cardboard sign?

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In the last post about discipleship we established the concept that discipleship ins’t a program, it is a lifestyle. We each need to have an attitude that every moment is a potential discipleship moment and every person that we encounter is a potential disciple. That means that some of our disciples will be people who [...]

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I’m sitting at the graduation ceremony of the Santana class of 2008 right now. It seems to me it was just yesterday that I was the one graduating and now here I am watching my own child take that step. Truly, time passes faster than we can comprehend. We can worry about how quickly time [...]

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So how do we begin a discipleship relationship? One of the problems we have with discipleship is that we look at it as something we do. In our minds, discipleship is little different than laundry, taking out the trash, or keeping a doctor’s appointment. Just like all those things, discipleship becomes another task that we [...]

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Recently I have been more and more convicted that what we really need to concentrate on in the American church in general and in my local church in particular is to develop a culture of discipleship. The problem is every time we begin to talk about “discipleship” people get nervous. In the classic church there [...]

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