A Key to Discipling Millennials

“Theology is autobiography.” This short phrase, which I heard from a young divinity school student at Duke University, drifted through the classroom and forever cemented itself in my memory and understanding of my calling as a pastor theologian. He echoed the words of Frederick Buechner who said that “theology, no matter how abstruse, no matter how metaphysical and subtle, is an outgrowth of …

An Easy Way to Cheat at Disciple Making

G.K. Chesterton’s All Things Considered is a collection of short columns written for the London Daily News in the years prior to World War I. One of the articles entitled “The Fallacy of Success” challenges the letter and the spirit of the how-to books Chesterton was finding on the shelves of his local book store. It is worth quoting at …