Equipping Live - You Can’t Disciple Yourself
Equipping Live - You Can’t Disciple Yourself
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Most of us have been doing discipleship completely alone.
We read the books. We follow the plans. We show up to church and sit in the same seat and nod along and go home largely unchanged. And we quietly wonder why nothing seems to be sticking.
Here’s what nobody told us: the version of discipleship most of us were handed is essentially self-improvement with Bible verses. And it doesn’t work. Not because we’re not trying hard enough. Because it was never designed to work that way.
The New Testament doesn’t describe people getting formed in isolation and then placed into community. It describes people getting formed through community. Through real relationships. Through the daily, sometimes difficult work of staying connected to God and to each other.
That’s a different way of being with people. And you can start this week with the relationships you already have.
“The relational dimension of discipleship isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s the whole mechanism.” Chris - Equipping Live, August |
IF ANY OF THESE LAND, THIS SESSION IS FOR YOU:
The felt tension that brought you here:
- Why your relationships aren’t forming you the way God intended
- What nobody told you about how discipleship actually works
- The thing most churches get wrong about making disciples
- Why you can’t grow spiritually alone and what to do about it
WHAT TO EXPECT
An hour that changes how you see your relationships.
01 Teach What relational discipleship actually is, why the DIY version quietly fails, and three things that become possible when formation happens in relationship instead of isolation. |
02 Practice You’ll identify one person already in your life you could go deeper with and practice one change you can make this week. A real next step. |
03 Questions Bring your honest ones. What does this look like in a busy life? In a church that doesn’t do this? In a relationship that’s been stuck at the surface for years? |
Equipping Live is a conversation with people working on the same things you are, led by someone who has been building a ministry around this question for years and still doesn’t have it fully figured out.
WHO IT’S FOR
You don’t have to be a discipleship nerd for this to matter.
- You’ve been a Christian for years and still feel like something is missing in your formation
- You lead a small group or mentor someone and you’re not sure it’s actually working
- You believe community matters but you’re not sure how to make your relationships go deeper
- You’re curious about what Equipping Ministries does and want to understand the theology behind it
- You’ve taken an Equipping class and want to understand the bigger picture it fits into
Not for: People looking for a theological debate about discipleship models. This is a practical session with a clear point of view. If you want to push back on the premise, bring it to Q&A and we’ll have an honest conversation. |
YOUR HOST
Chris Conlin
Chris is the Executive Director of Equipping Ministries International - a 50-year-old relational discipleship organization that has worked with over 750,000 people across 120+ countries. He has spent the last several years trying to articulate why the relational dimension of discipleship is not supplementary to the real work but is the real work.
He leads EMI’s monthly class series in Cincinnati alongside his wife Victoria, hosts The Human Project podcast, and is working on a book about the relational practices that form real followers.
He will probably tell you something that makes you rethink how you’ve been doing this before he tells you what to do instead.
Ready to join us? |
Register above or email info@equippingministries.org with any questions. The Zoom link will be sent after registration. Can’t make it live? Register anyway - we’ll send you the recording.