Many church leaders, yearning for church growth, look to the latest evangelistic strategies or seeker-targeted worship services. But lack of growth might not be due to lack of concern for new people—it may be because we are not effectively discipling the people we already have. Greg Ogden address the need for discipleship in the local church and recovers Jesus' method of accomplishing life change by investing in just a few people at a time. Ogden sets forth his vision for transforming both the individual disciple and discipleship itself, showing how discipleship can become a self-replicating process with ongoing impact from generation to generation.This revised and updated edition includes a new chapter on discipleship and preaching.
Зміст
Introduction: A Story of Transformation
Part I: The Discipleship Deficit: What Went Wrong and Why
1. The Discipleship Gap: Where Have All the Disciples Gone?
2. The Discipleship Malaise: Getting to the Root Causes
Part II: Doing the Lord?s Work in the Lord’s Way: The Bible as a Method Book
3. Why Jesus Invested in a Few
4. Jesus’ Preparatory Empowerment Model
5. Paul?s Empowerment Model: Spiritual Parenting
Part III: Multiplying Reproducing Discipleship Groups: Church-Based Strategy for Disciple Making
6. Life Investment: It’s All About Relationships
7. Multiplication: Through the Generations
8. Transformation: The Four Necessary Ingredients
9. Practicalities of Disciple Making
10. The Role of Preaching in Making Disciples
Acknowledgments
Appendix 1: Frequently Asked Questions
Appendix 2: Critical Considerations for Growing a Reproducing Disciple-Making Ministry
Appendix 3: The Importance of Curriculum
Notes
Про автора
Greg Ogden (DMin, Fuller Theological Seminary) recently retired as executive pastor of discipleship at Christ Church of Oak Brook. Prior to that he served as director of the doctor of ministry program at Fuller Theological Seminary. Now based in Monterey, California, he lives out his passion of teaching about the disciple-making mission of the church.
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