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If we take helping people fall in love with Jesus on the massive scale of a Disciple Making Movement seriously, we must take the business of starting Prayer Movements seriously. 

When followers of Jesus are diagnosed with cancer, they mobilize everyone they meet to pray for them - strangers, friends, family, who they are really doesn't matter. But, when it comes to praying for a Disciple Making Movement, I get a tremendous amount of pushback.

  Raising support, whether spiritual or financial, for mission work in the United States is exponentially harder than raising support for work overseas. Most people I have talked with attribute this to a perceived lack of need for mission work here. "After all," people say, "America is a Christian nation founded on Christian principles with a church in every town. If someone in America wants to know about Jesus they can just go to church." The more I think about this, the less it makes sense. It doesn’t take much looking around at the issues that plague our country to realize that, as a whole, we are not centered on serving Christ. America has an increasing number of people who...

We are busy, aren’t we? There are so many things to do in a day! Kingdom things like discipling people, practical things like going to work, necessary things like making dinner. When do we have time to pray? “It’s not about spending more time praying, but becoming people of prayer and developing cultures of prayer wherever God plants us.” Paul shared this during this week’s webinar, as well as several other encouraging, challenging, and practical pieces of wisdom.   Prayer is a theme God gave me in the second half of last year. It also happens to be our theme for 2017 here at Contagious Disciple Making. God has been faithful to teach me so much and these are a...

  “Who do you say that I am?” This question has echoed through history. It forever changed the disciples. They were forced to answer the question and as they did, realized how that answer would impact them for the rest of their lives. Because who Jesus was, impacted who they were as his followers and closest friends. But I feel like it is a question that we also must answer for ourselves. Not in the context of Jesus, we know who he is. But, who does God say that I am? Who is, Kimberly Hathaway? Or in your case, who does God say that YOU are? Jesus knew who he was. When he entered ministry, he had spent 32 years...