Disciple Driven Church is preaching for revival and reformation. Don’t be confused – this is not a church health, church growth, or discipleship program. This is not even a church or a denomination. This is a call to refocus every Christian on their personal consecration before God and the responsibility that comes with entering into the New Covenant with Christ.
Over the last few decades the church in America has entered into a steep decline. There is a decline in attendance that increases with each passing generation. The Church Growth and Church Planting Movements claimed to have the answer to stop such declines. They proclaimed that by applying new techniques and by utilizing methods and formulas, we could turn the faltering church in America around. After nearly four decades of Church Growth theory, and over two decades of the Church Planting Movement, the success of these practices can be seen in our churches today. There is a decline in doctrinal aptitude and it has reached a state where the behavior of those in the church is statistically indistinguishable from those outside the church.
How has the church in America reached such a cataclysmic state of decline? What has caused this lack of transformational effect to take hold of the church? The Christian church began as a loosely organized, illegal, unstructured, Holy Spirit empowered group of social outcasts, that transformed the known world. Two thousand years later, we find a well oiled, highly structured, mainstream organization, which once stood at the center of political power, and we are loosing our impact on society. Many Christians are caught in church structures that hinder the work of God among His people. The predominant model of church in America does not follow the instructions of Scripture. Much of what we see in American church structures comes from early Roman or pagan practices, Secular Humanism, or modern business models. The Church was designed by God to operate in a much more organic way.
The church has gone from a movement that required the total commitment of its members to the point of death, to one that literally begs for anyone to enter its doors. The
society we are sent to transform is morally deteriorating before our eyes. It appears, in
America, that the church is being transformed by the culture. Our enemy appears to be gaining ground on all sides as the church looks for the greatest “new technique” to change its course. Disciple Driven Church is NOT that new technique.
It is always hard to challenge the religious practices of the day. People are invested in their traditions; this is nothing new. Jesus encountered this when He preached the kingdom was at hand. He was not rejected by the religious leaders of His day because His doctrine was proven wrong, but rather because He challenged the way they did things. People are often more dedicated to their practices than they are to their theology. Are you dedicated to your practices or your theology? Jesus confronted the people of His day and challenged their traditions. Many of them were unable to see past their traditions to recognize the words of God that were being spoken to them. As a result, they missed the Messiah they had been longing to see. Don’t let traditions blind you as they did many of the Pharisees in Jesus’ day.
The rest of this site is dedicated to your personal exploration of the traditions that hinder the church and the expressions of those that have thrown off that which binds. Explore it prayerfully and if you find God speaking to you through what you find here please contact me. There is nothing to join here just a proclamation of truth and an offer to help you find what has been covered by years of corruption and tradition.