Disciple is a noun. Formation is the verb. Making disciples is the imperative.

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Monastery cloister — arched stone corridor with light and shadow receding to a vanishing point

About Tim Sisk

We've been making Christians. Jesus made disciples.

The word "disciple" appears 269 times in the New Testament. "Christian" appears three times. Dallas Willard noticed this and it changed how he thought about the church. After thirty years of ministry, it changed how Tim thinks too. The Great Commission was never a call to make converts — it was a call to make disciples.

His pastoral calling is rooted in the conviction that the church's ancient practices and the Spirit's present work are not in tension — they are the same river.

The sermon is not a lecture about the text — it is the text speaking.

— Tim Sisk, On Preaching

Tim attempts to approach the pulpit as a place of encounter, not instruction. The preacher's task is to stand between the ancient word and the present congregation — not to explain the distance, but to close it.

His preaching seeks to balance the beauty of ordered worship and the urgency of the gospel — the ancient form and the living word not in competition, but in service of the same end.

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Traditional wooden pulpit in a warmly lit church

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