All For Jesus
We are an organization dedicated to seeing entire regions and nations reached for Jesus Christ through prayer, training, mentoring and making disciples that make disciples and planting churches that plant churches. We work to reorient followers of Jesus towards His great mission, with the vision of fully reaching the lands God has entrusted to us. We believe that we are tasked with the duty of turning all people, everywhere, thoroughly to Jesus. We yearn to achieve Great Commission living.
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I'm Brent. My wife and I founded All for Jesus in late 2025. Perhaps you are here because you read my book.
If so, you already understand what All for Jesus is about. If you stumbled along here by some other route, however, let me help you.
In my book, All for Jesus, which is mostly my life story, I detail how I came, after many years of traditionally minded work, to the understanding I now have concerning wise living that produces abundant fruit in God's Kingdom.
This is how I have come to see the traditional church.
Shocking, I know.
It might be pretty hard to accept this, especially for those who are part of what we call mega-churches these days. I’m not totally against traditional churches and ministries. I refer to traditional churches as SMC, Sunday morning church. It’s not that good things don’t happen in SMC, but I noticed over my many years of serving in them that the work to fruit ratio is wildly out of balance; it takes a lot more work than it should to see the little fruit that we do.
But the reason my way of seeing traditional churches is likely very hard for many to accept is that, when people join in a Sunday service, it is for a lot of them enjoyable, even exciting, and the sermon is usually at least thought provoking and, we know, important. For those attending large churches, how can they possibly think of their church as not producing much fruit when they see so many gathered together, often worshiping loudly and proudly with raised hands and even some tears? It just doesn’t compute for many people that most churches could be like the barren tree above.
But the people in these churches are usually a collection of converts who came from other churches who were saved already. And, they usually attend church for many, many years and never lead anyone to Christ themselves. They gain head knowledge, but often don’t really have an intimate walk with the Lord.
Some research groups have calculated how much churches spend compared to how many baptisms are recorded. There are a wide range of numbers, but the high side (which I personally am not surprised by at all) is that churches across the U.S. spend about $1.5 million dollars per baptism! The low side is much better at around $17,000 dollars per baptism, but even that is outrageous. Again, the work to fruit ratio is (I want to say laughably but it is too sad, really…) severely out of balance.
After many years of seeking God on this matter, He started revealing to me answers to the conundrum in early 2022. I am not going to detail everything that happened and how God got through to me, but over many months, and continuing over a couple of years even, I began to understand why the problem exists and persists. To put it into a nutshell…
We stopped doing that, and started doing something else entirely. This is not a recent development, either. It’s been centuries of forgoing what Jesus told us to do, to disciple everyone, in favor of weekly (or I might say weakly) sermonizing. Somewhere along the line, perhaps as many as 1700 years ago, we decided to try to do Jesus’ job of building the church, leaving discipleship to… no one! We have been trying to build congregations rather than living in deep, intimate community with followers, baptizing them and teaching them to obey, and consequently the priesthood of all believers is a truth we only hold in our heads but don’t practice in our lives. We’ve been doing everything, with a very high production value, other than the thing we were told explicitly by Jesus to do.
It is All for Jesus’ firm belief that, once we get the horse of discipleship back in front of the cart of celebration services (which can be a good thing…), our churches are going to start looking more like…
as we all embrace the fact that the Great Commission is every believer’s duty, and also privilege. We will begin again to rejoice in the fact that God has invited every disciple into the work that our Savior has done and is doing.