Making Disciples: Developing Lifelong Followers of Jesus
The Great Commission is to make disciples. Renowned church planter and pastor Ralph Moore shows leaders why a focus on making disciples is the essential next step once a church is planted. This biblical, practical handbook will guide churches of any size to focus their ministries around Jesus's command to his followers to make disciples of all nations. Making Disciples offers a model of church ministry that sees every member as a minister, and it will become an indispensable resource for equipping a new generation of disciple-makers.
Top Highlights
“Disciplemaking invades personal space. You share your own failings, victories and insights with another person. A good disciplemaker invites his disciple to help with ministry, then do ministry on his own while the disciplemaker applauds the effort. Disciplemaking calls a person to do things he or she never thought possible. It aids in the fulfillment of God’s vision and dreams in the one you disciple.” (source)
“If we love God, we will want others to love Him. If we love our neighbors, we will want them to go to heaven. That brings us head-on into disciplemaking.” (source)
“Disciplemaking begins when the Lord shows you who belongs in your life, Christian or non-Christian” (source)
“He proclaimed the gospel (often accompanied with miracles); he made disciples; and he appointed some of those disciples as elders or pastors to care for the other disciples.” (source)
“What I mean by outreach is that every group exists to equip every member to accomplish his or her role in the Great Commission—outside the confines of the church.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Making Disciples: Developing Lifelong Followers of Jesus
- Authors:
- Moore, Ralph
- Stetzer, Ed
- Publisher: Baker
- Publication Date: 2012
- ISBN: 9781441224231
Ralph Moore is the senior pastor of Hope Chapel Kaneohe Bay in Hawaii and the founder of Hope Chapel in Hermosa Beach, California. His ministry now spans more than 700 churches on six continents. Pastor Moore travels extensively, teaching pastors and church leaders biblical models for spreading the gospel and building Christ's kingdom. He and his wife, Ruby, have two adult children who are also involved in church multiplication.