Travis Agnew's Blog, page 23

Headship: Church According to God’s Authority

As we seek to follow Jesus within a local church, we must never surrender biblical objectives to manmade agendas. Discover how to lead a local church according to God’s authority.

Gospel Groups: From Rosters to Relationships

Hebrews 10:23-25 – Being involved in the life of a church requires more than having your name on the roster of a group. Discover how to move from being a name on a list to developing relationships that further your discipleship.

Ignorant Disobedience vs. Informed Disobedience

The commandments in Scripture educate us on how sinful we truly are. But instead of leaving us in our rebellious despair, we learn of something that is even more numerous than our trespasses—it is God’s grace.

Help for Spiritual Disciplines

Many disciples of Jesus have a desire to grow or at least a guilt when they aren’t doing so, but we rarely design a plan to help us in our efforts. To be successful in spiritual disciplines, you need to evaluate what you need to start and what you need to stop.

Resistant to Jesus

As Jesus mourned over Jerusalem's unwillingness to be protected from Him, how often are we resistant to His leading? Instead of experiencing His covering, we expose and endanger ourselves.

Mentoring 101

Mentoring will not happen by accident. You must be intentional in helping others follow you as you follow Jesus.

Mentoring Discipleship: From Information to Imitation

Hebrews 13:7-8 – If we simplify discipleship to mere information transfer, we miss much of what is necessary for transformation. We all need mentoring relationships worth imitating as we seek to follow Jesus.

Sinners Welcomed

Sinners are welcomed at Jesus' table and into God's family. It doesn’t mean He provides a free pass to continue what took Him to the cross, but He doesn’t expect people to change before He loves them.

The Three Things You Have to Do Today

People often miss the essentials due to distraction, laziness, or busyness. Don’t allow these mindsets to rob you of accomplishing great things with the time you have this very day.

If Adam Never Ate

If Adam could have chosen obedience, I would have come after him and received Paradise’s eviction notice on behalf of all humanity. Instead of blaming others for the condition of this world (like Adam and Eve did), take responsibility for how your sin has caused chaos in your world.