DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples (Exponential Series) [Kindle Edition] Author: Jim Putman | Language: English | ISBN:
B00A9USC9M | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Direct download links available Download DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples (Exponential Series) [Kindle Edition] for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download Link Over the last thirty years, many influential church leaders and church planters in America have adopted various models for reaching unchurched people. An “attractional” model will seek to attract people to a local church. Younger leaders may advocate a more “missional” approach, in which believers live and work among unchurched people and intentionally seek to serve like Christ. While each of these approaches have merit, something is still missing, something even more fundamental to the mission of the church: discipleship.
Making disciples---helping people to trust and follow Jesus---is the church’s God-given mandate. Devoted disciples attract people outside the church because of the change others see in their Christ-like lives. And discipleship empowers Christians to be more like Christ as they intentionally develop relationship with non-believers.
DiscipleShift walks you through five key “shifts” that churches must make to refocus on the biblical mission of discipleship. These intentional changes will attract the world and empower your church members to be salt and light in their communities. Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation Download DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples
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- Publisher: Zondervan (April 23, 2013)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Publishing
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00A9USC9M
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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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