Comments on: 5 Tips On Producing Disciple-Makers

By: Aaron Crumbey

Aaron Crumbey — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 17:43:23 +0000

In reply to Mike. That's a good word, Mike. And I totally agree 100%. I also think that we as a church, for the most part, would all agree with that definition of discipleship. I wanted to put an emphasis on the fact that our students are called to the great commission. And we need to disciple with the intent to mobilize, and not just disciple with the intent to cultivate. Thanks for the response!!

By: Aaron Crumbey

Aaron Crumbey — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 17:04:48 +0000

In reply to Christian. That's awesome Christian!! We can't teach has if we'll be here forever. We must equip and mobilize now and the only way to do that is to produce disciple-makers like Jesus!!

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 19:33:53 +0000

I have been focusing on the goal of making disciples that make disciples. To help accomplish that, we have begun discipleship groups for prayer, growth, and discipleship of teens that want that. The groups are open or them to bring friends who would want to learn or grow. And, we want to help the teens in the groups to take on leading aspects and become ready, sooner or later, to lead a discipleship group with another person or group (concurrently or when the group get big enough that we need to expand). I am encouraging our leaders to be transparent about our goals and process for the discipleship groups so the teens can see how we and they can be involved in making disciples that make disciples.

(Beyond the discipleship groups, we have Sunday school and youth group that are also designed to help kids grow, with youth group also being more outreach focused.)

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 19:09:59 +0000

Good words. Thank you. I would add one distinction when talking about our purpose in discipleship. This is something I’ve learned recently from my sr. pastor’s ministry philosophy. It is this: our purpose as disciples and as a church is to worship God and our mission is to make more worshipers and to make more mature worshipers. This distinction between purpose and mission has been very helpful for me in my ministry. Missions have a beginning and an end. We won’t be evangelizing into eternity. However, our purpose is eternal since we will be worshiping into eternity.

So, while our mission is important, I think we need to see our mission as flowing out of our purpose (and temporary). I would say that my main goal in discipleship is to help my students become more mature worshipers with a commitment to our temporary mission of evangelism.