Discipleship without mission is discipleship without Christ.
The church often lacks maturity and missional impact because discipleship is at its periphery. In order to get discipleship to the center, leaders need a locally rooted, culturally contextual discipleship pathway to tether disciples who are disciplemakers to the neighborhood or network around them.
Pastor and discipler E. K. Strawser shows that when discipleship becomes central to your leadership and community, then discipleship becomes central to congregational mission and cultural renewal. Centering Discipleship is a gutsy practice-based guidebook for leaders who are doing the hard work of re-imagining and re-structuring their churches and communities to turn spectators into missional, mature followers of Jesus.
Table des matières
Foreword by JR Woodward
Prologue
Part 1: Changing Our Job Description
1. Making Discipleship Central
2. The Nature of Discipleship
3. The Marks of a Mature Disciple
Part 2: Developing a Discipleship Pathway
4. From Past Recipes to Local Cuisine
5. Essential Ingredients for Any Pathway
6. The Journey of a Discipleship Pathway
Part 3: Underlying Assumptions of Discipleship
7. Discipleship Requires Transformation
8. Unmasking Our Discipleship Assumptions
9. Transforming Our Discipleship Assumptions
Part 4: Implementing Your Discipleship Pathway
10. The Four Spaces and Discipleship
11. Hurdles to Discipleship
12. Discipleship in Culture
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
A propos de l’auteur
JR Woodward is a church planter, activist, consultant, missiologist, speaker and writer. He cofounded Kairos Los Angeles and the Ecclesia Network, a relational network of missional churches. He is the director of the Solis Foundation, which partners with churches in Kenya to equip and resource people living in extreme poverty to create sustainable businesses. He blogs at jrwoodward.net.
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