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On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave considers the dangers of a pragmatic approach and its effect on our approach to discipleship, seeing whole people in need of the grace of God, and the importance of teaching people the principle of the Word and helping them apply them to their life.
What you’ll hear in this episode
- What biblical discipleship is all about and why it’s so important.
- Why our character in Christ is to fuel our service for Christ.
- The dangers of a pragmatic approach to ministry.
- Why a cookie-cutter approach to discipleship is a failure to see people as whole people.
- Why a cookie-cutter approach to discipleship is a failure to see people’s problems as complex.
- Why a cookie-cutter approach to discipleship is a failure to understand what real discipleship is.
- Seeing people as whole people in real need of the grace of God.
- Teach the principles of the Word and help people learn how to take the principles and apply them to their life.
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Dave Jenkins is happily married to his wife, Sarah. He is a writer, editor, and speaker living in beautiful Southern Oregon. Dave is a lover of Christ, His people, the Church, and sound theology. He serves as the Executive Director of Servants of Grace Ministries, the Executive Editor of Theology for Life Magazine, the Host and Producer of Equipping You in Grace Podcast, and is a contributor to and producer of Contending for the Word. He is the author of The Word Explored: The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy and What To Do About It (House to House, 2021), The Word Matters: Defending Biblical Authority Against the Spirit of the Age (G3 Press, 2022), and Contentment: The Journey of a Lifetime (Theology for Life, 2024). You can find him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, or read his newsletter. Dave loves to spend time with his wife, going to movies, eating at a nice restaurant, or going out for a round of golf with a good friend. He is also a voracious reader, in particular of Reformed theology, and the Puritans. You will often find him when he’s not busy with ministry reading a pile of the latest books from a wide variety of Christian publishers. Dave received his M.A.R. and M.Div through Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.