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	<title>Imitating Jesus</title>
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	<description>a blog about making followers of Jesus</description>
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		<title>Hospitality: A Starting Point For Making Disciples</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hospitality is a good starting place for making disciples.  It provides for you an opportunity to serve your disciple and to carve out a safe place for him to belong. Serving and making followers of Jesus are inseparable.  Jesus told his disciples:
“Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imitatingjesus.org/2010/02/hospitality-a-starting-point-for-making-disciples/</link>
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		<title>Why Hospitality?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Making disciples of Jesus is best done in the context of your home, whether for your natural children or your spiritual children.  Disciples are the children of God; therefore the home is an ideal environment for a disciple to experience, (1) the parental nature of God, (2) what it means to belong to a family, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imitatingjesus.org/2010/02/why-hospitality/</link>
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		<title>Hospitality and the Gospel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The question I am asked most often is “what does your ministry look like?” Although there are many components to our approach, hospitality would be central. If you would ask how we make disciples, I would say through the means of hospitality.  If you would ask our method for evangelism, again I would answer hospitality.
At [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imitatingjesus.org/2010/02/hospitality-and-the-gospel/</link>
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		<title>Blinding Traditions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Could there be Christian traditions that are actually a danger to me?  Traditions have the power to shape my lens to see things in the Scriptures that are not there and to blind me to things that are there.  It is hard for evangelicals to imagine that we ourselves could be blind to truth within [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imitatingjesus.org/2010/01/blinding-traditions/</link>
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		<title>Evaluating Your Lens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last post (How to View Your Disciple-December 30th, 2009), I wrote that the lens through which I view my disciple speaks to him louder than my words or actions.  For this reason alone I should evaluate my lens, but it is also important for me to assess my lens because it effects how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imitatingjesus.org/2010/01/376/</link>
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		<title>How To View Your Disciple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The lens through which I view others communicates louder than my words or actions.  This is why the lens through which I view my disciple must be correct in order for him to experience the love that brings life change.  As a wrong prescription for glasses effects how a patient sees everything, so a wrong [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imitatingjesus.org/2009/12/how-to-view-your-disciple/</link>
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		<title>What is God Like?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While looking for ministry methods, Christianity has the tendency to skip over the Gospels and dive into the book of Acts and Paul’s letters.  Yet it is in the Gospels that we have four accounts of God coming to earth to show us what God is like.  “When Church Was a Family” by Joseph Hellerman [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imitatingjesus.org/2009/12/what-is-god-like/</link>
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		<title>Teaching Your Disciples How to Love #4:  Prayer for One Another</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My dad has prayed for me every day for 52 years.  It is difficult to describe the security and love that I feel each time he says to me, “Son, I pray for you every day.”
Prayer is a gift of love for you to give to your disciple. Telling your disciple that you pray for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imitatingjesus.org/2009/10/teaching-your-disciples-how-to-love-4-prayer-for-one-another/</link>
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		<title>Teaching Your Disciple How to Love #3- &#8220;The Meaningful Word&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a discipler, it is not only essential for you to verbally communicate your love to each disciple, it is also important that your disciple communicates his love to you and to the other disciples.
This week I listened to an interview of a father who on 9/11 lost two sons who were New York firefighters.   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imitatingjesus.org/2009/09/teaching-your-disciple-how-to-love-3-the-meaningful-word/</link>
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		<title>Teaching Your Disciple How to Love #2-The Meaningful Touch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Creating an environment where affection is natural and meaningful is an essential component of the discipling process.  Not only is physical affection necessary between the discipler and his disciple, but it is also important for your disciples to be affectionate with one another.  As affection is a natural expression of love in a healthy family, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imitatingjesus.org/2009/09/teaching-your-disciple-how-to-love-2-the-meaningful-touch/</link>
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