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Insourcing: Bringing Discipleship Back to the Local Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

Too many of today’s pastors and leaders mistakenly think that thriving programs, lively worship services, and relevant preaching are adequate for developing people into the spiritual dynamos God desires. In many churches, the primary objective of the church—personally discipling individuals into mature followers of Jesus—has been “outsourced” to large-scale programs. But are people truly being...

lot packed into the phrase we finally came up with: life-on-life missional discipleship. We expanded that phrase into a paragraph: “Life-on-life missional discipleship is laboring in the lives of a few with the intention of imparting one’s life, the gospel, and God’s Word in such a way as to see them become mature and equipped followers of Christ, committed to doing the same in the lives of others.” The definition evolved in the doing, and along the way, we named it. The name is important because it