Robert Coleman is the clear cover focus of Christian Standard’s August 2019 issue, a print edition centered on discipleship, Christian education, and the long-term work of forming believers. Built around a featured interview with Robert Coleman, author of The Master Plan of Evangelism, this issue explores how Jesus made disciples and how churches, colleges, and ministry leaders can recover that pattern with greater clarity and faithfulness.
The feature article, “Robert Coleman: Spending Time with the Teacher,” presents Coleman’s reflections on disciple-making, theological education, and life with Christ after decades of ministry and teaching. Around that central interview, the issue expands into broader conversations about Christian colleges, campus ministry, leadership development, and the state of education in the church. Readers will find practical ideas for collaboration between churches and colleges, an interview on campus ministry, and a three-part section on how education relates to discipleship, experience, and culture.
Christian Standard’s August 2019 issue also includes survey data on large and medium churches, along with regular departments on elders, storytelling, ministry life, and global education ministry. Taken together, these articles argue that education is valuable only when it serves the church’s deeper mission of making disciples who obey Jesus. For pastors, elders, professors, ministry students, and church leaders interested in Robert Coleman and disciple-making, this August 2019 issue offers a strong snapshot of how Christian Standard connected education and spiritual formation at that moment.
