by Dave Miller Previous Conclusion.1 | Next Conclusion.3 E.M. Bounds once wrote: “Men are God’s method. The church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.”[1] If not you then who? If not now then when? Jesus taught: The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in th

by Dave Miller Previous Chapter 7.3 | Next Chapter 7.5 The 3/3rds process puts the power of the gospel to work week in and week out. Let me show you how. You have shared the #3Circles, you have a new believer and they want to meet with you to learn to follow Jesus, what do you do? We use the 3/3rds process as the engine of our disciple making practice. It is like the gas pedal to obedience-based discipleship where we teach one another to obey all that Christ commands. In ch

by Dave Miller Previous Chapter 7.2 | Next Chapter 7.4 We could just as easily call the Three-thirds process (3/3rds) the Gospel process. Imbedded in the rhythm of a regular gathering using the 3/3rds is the rhythm of gospel transformation. We are becoming who Christ has declared us to be. Notice how our Look Back, Look Up, and Look forward all grow out of the simple message of the gospel illustrated by the #3Circles. We are trying to intentionally saturate our DNA with the

by Dave Miller Previous Chapter 6.3 | Next Chapter 7.2 All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations… - Jesus Jonathon slowly picked himself up off the cold grass on the side of an I-40 entrance ramp. On that cold winter evening in 2014 he had taken a direct hit by a Tahoe traveling 60 mph. His Harley Davidson was nowhere around and it wasn’t long before lights and sirens filled the night. Jonathon recalled the m

by Dave Miller Previous Chapter 6.2 | Next Chapter 7.1 Followers of Jesus do not live a silent faith. Ours is one of proclamation and authority. Jesus said: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore…” (Matthew 28:18-19a). The woman at the well went to her ministry, Sychar, with a simple message: “Come see the man who told me everything I ever did. Could he be the Christ?” We have a powerful story. Unlike the woman’s first message we ca

by Dave Miller Previous Preface | Next Chapter 1.1 God has saved you with somebody else in mind. I will never forget the first time a great friend and mentor in my life, Beegee Brown, spoke those words over a couple of cheese enchiladas and a tall glass of southern sweet tea. I had been a pastor for 12 years and was currently on staff at a mega-church in a seminary town. I had a Masters of Divinity in pastoral ministry from a flagship North American Seminary. I could parse

By Dave Miller Dr. Bruce Carlton contributed 8 Key Principles in Cross-Cultural Church Planting. Building further from those core starting blocks, one must build strategy and direction for a particular calling or focus. However building strategy is not intuitive in the kingdom of God. In a Western context we usually determine a particular desired outcome and work backwards when developing strategy. Yet in the Kingdom, God determines the outcome and our job is to respond to Hi