Disciple Making Is . . .: How to Live the Great Commission with Passion and Confidence
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Overview
Disciple Making Is… stands as one of the most thorough books yet offered regarding how to make disciples. In thirty brief, hard-hitting but easily accessible chapters, the entire scope of disciple making is presented in a way that will inspire and inform the reader to obey the Great Commission with great passion.
Grounded on a solid biblical foundation, authors Dave Earley and Rod Dempsey — both veterans of one-on-one, collegiate, small group, and local church discipleship — share their practical insights on how to best reproduce reproducers of Christ’s message. Each compelling entry is set up to finish the sentence that begins with the book’s title. For example, Disciple Making Is . . . "Embracing the Cross," "Forsaking All to Follow Jesus," "Living on Mission," "Launching an Unstoppable Force," "Mentoring Disciples as Jesus Did," "Multiplying Disciple-Makers as Paul Did," "Creating a Healthy Church," and more.
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- Provides important principles about what it means to be a disciple (the person), and what it means to make disciples (the process)
- Approaches the subject of discipleship by examining key biblical passages to extract key biblical principles, and thus suggest practices that will help readers become better disciples and disciple makers
- Explores the Gospels, noting what Jesus said and did in the realm of making disciples, and analyzes the book of Acts and the Epistles to explore how the first churches attempted to make disciples
Top Highlights
“Who seriously considers the cost before following Christ.” (source)
“Who is willing to carry his or her individual burden to sacrifice for Christ and His cause.” (source)
“Who is willing to give up all earthly possessions.” (source)
“Who abides in Christ, prays, bears fruit, and glorifies God.” (source)
“Who is intimately involved in the mission of Jesus to make disciples.” (source)
Most discipleship books focus entirely on personal discipleship - how I can be a better disciple. While not neglecting the personal aspects of discipleship, Dave Earley and Rod Dempsey go one step further and do an excellent job of placing the local church at the center of making disciples. This is where the emphasis lies in the New Testament - building disciples through missionary church planting. This book will give you a detailed account of what the Bible says about disciple making. The careful biblical exegesis is worth the price of the book. Read this book and learn how to follow the Master in making disciples who makes disciples.
Joel Comiskey, president, Joel Comiskey Group
Jesus said 'Go therefore and make disciples...' in Matthew 28 just before His ascension. These were marching orders for those of us in the trenches of ministry. It's not a suggestions; it's an imperative. Many churches today focus more on big crowds than on developing Christ followers. I believe both are important. Let's reach the world with the gospel and then help them develop and grow into fully committed followers of Christ. This book is a great tool in helping the church develop an effective strategy towards that end. Dave Earley and Rod Dempsey are accomplising much in training the next generarion of church leaders to do that which Christ commanded.
Jonathan Fallwell, pastor, Thomas Road Baptist Church
This volume is a creative how-to handbook at its best. Not written by beginners who hope to get it right, these two veterans have actually applied these principles for decades in very different situations and have discovered that they change lives. Now they are teaching others to do the same. Its many diagrams, charts, discussion questions, suggestions, and treatments of the relevant biblical passages combine in a remarkable effort to share their results and knowledge. The wealth of details here, all up-to-date, tried, and tested in tough situations can work in the lives of real people.
Gary R. Habermas, distiguished research professor, Liberty University
