DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples (Exponential Series) Paperback Author: Visit Amazon's Jim Putman Page | Language: English | ISBN:
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Jim Putman is the founder and senior pastor of Real Life Ministries in Post Falls, Idaho. Real Life was launched with a commitment to discipleship and the model of discipleship Jesus practiced, which is called, 'Relational Discipleship.' Outreach Magazine continually lists Real Life Ministries among the top one hundred most influential churches in America. Jim is also the founding leader of the Relational Discipleship Network. Jim holds degrees from Boise State University and Boise Bible College. He is the author of three books: Church is a Team Sport, Real Life Discipleship, and Real Life Discipleship Workbook (with Avery Willis and others). Jim's passion is discipleship through small groups. He lives with his wife and three sons in scenic northern Idaho.
Bobby Harrington is the co-founder of discipleship.org and the lead pastor of Harpeth Community Church. He is the chairman of the board for the Relational Discipleship Network and the co-author of DiscipleShift and author of To Trust and Follow Jesus: Relational Discipleship as the Core Mission of the Church. He has been married to Cindy for over 34 years and they have discipled Ashley and Chad who are adults who trust and follow Jesus
Dr. Robert Coleman is the Distinguished Senior Professor of Discipleship and Evangelism at Gordon-Conwell seminary and a prolific author, having written hundreds of articles and twenty-one books, including The Master Plan of Evangelism, which has sold multiple million copies and is the book for which he is best known. He directed the School of World Mission and Evangelism at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School for eighteen years and currently serves on the Mission America Facilitation Committee and several international mission boards and is the president of Christian Outreach. From 1989-2001, he led the Institute of Evangelism in the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College and served as Dean of the Billy Graham International Schools of Evangelism. He is also a founding member of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelism and a past president of the Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education. His personal interests include spending time with his family, including his children and grandchildren, and keeping in touch with those he has discipled.
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- Series: Exponential Series
- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Zondervan (April 27, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0310492629
- ISBN-13: 978-0310492627
- Product Dimensions: 2.1 x 3.3 x 0.4 inches
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The core question of effectiveness for a church - the question that ultimately matters - is whether the people who are getting saved are being conformed to the likeness of Christ, according to Jim Putman in this book. Are we making mature disciples of Jesus who are not only able to withstand the culture but are also making disciples of Jesus themselves?
Unfortunately, most churches do not rate highly when discipleship is the measure of success, and accordingly the book proposes that we need to be making five key shifts in the direction of the church:
* From Reaching to Making: Instead of focusing all our efforts on reaching the lost, we should be focusing our primary efforts on making disciples.
* From Informing to Equipping: Instead of concentrating on giving people information about Jesus, we need to concentrate on equipping them with the character and skills of a disciple.
* From Program to Purpose: We need to replace our emphasis on having good programs with an emphasis on the purpose of making disciples.
* From Activity to Relationship: Instead of seeing ministry as being primarily about activities, we should see ministry as being mainly about relationships.
* From Accumulating to Deploying: The way we measure our success needs to change from the number of attenders, converts and size of budget to the number of mature disciples actively deployed in disciple-making ministry.
This is one of the best books about discipleship that I have read. As a Discipleship Pastor, several times it made me want to stop and shout, "Yes, finally! This is exactly it!" Putnam, and the rest of the writing crew, grasp and communicate well that we are all called to be disciples who make other disciples, but they go beyond theology and make it practical. How do we make disciples who make disciples? Well, it's all about relationships. Everything comes back to connecting people in relationships.
Putnam describes 5 shifts that need to happen for a church to make disciples who make disciples: The Shifts... 1) From Reaching to Making; 2) From Informing to Equipping; 3) From Program to Purpose; 4) From Activity to Relationship; and 6) From Accumulating to Deploying. For each shift, Putnam includes a chapter on the theology behind the shift (a.k.a. Why should the shift be made?) and a following chapter on how to practically do it (a.k.a. How do I make the shift in MY church?). The end of each chapter includes key takeaway points, and many also include personal testimonies from church leaders and pastors about what God is doing in their churches through these shifts.
This is a book every church staff member should read. It's written well, is interesting to read, and the content is phenomenal! I even have a vision casting/training meeting with our small group leaders tomorrow in which I will be using content from this book. So what separates this books from others like it? There are so many pastors out there who write books, which essentially say, "This is how we did things at our church and it grew like crazy, so you should do them too!" But Putnam doesn't write like that at all.
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