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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...

response?” “I don’t know, but now I understand.” The difference is that they’ve been equipped rather than merely taught. Equipping adds modeling, explaining, and asking questions. It’s massaging the truth until it becomes understandable and usable. It’s what we call adding life-on-life into the discipling process. I once heard an old Chinese proverb: “What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I know.” Now it’s time to assign them the task of doing, having first heard and seen. The likelihood