Hi, my name's Courtney Doctor, and I serve as the Director of Women's Initiatives at the Gospel Coalition.

And as followers of Jesus Christ, you know we're all called to go and make disciples,

which sounds simple enough, help others follow Jesus as they grow in their love and knowledge of Him.

But that doesn't mean it's easy.

So we're inviting you to join us for the demystifying discipleship cohort. In this six-week virtual cohort, you'll hear

best practices from women like Jen Wilkin, Melissa Kruger, and Karen Hodge, women who have

thought long and hard about discipleship and implemented it

in a variety of settings. This cohort is for any woman who wants to disciple others, to be

discipleship, to be discipleship, or to see discipleship permeate her church culture.

Registration closes January 16th, so register today at TGC.org

slash women.

Make it your aim in your talk to get to the gospel. And most often that's going to be getting to

the cross, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

A message doesn't sing until you get there.

Hearts don't melt until you get there.

We are here to talk about putting passion and personality into our teaching. And so perhaps a good way to start is to define what I mean and don't mean by those terms.

Okay?

So here's what I don't mean by passion.

I don't mean teaching that is overly emotional.

Now, you're going to hear one of my points later that I want you to put emotion in it.

So I don't mean there's no emotion. But I think

you know what I'm talking about, don't you? Teaching that is overly emotional. And oftentimes when

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