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DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples is unavailable, but you can change that!

Over the last thirty years, many influential church leaders and church planters in America have adopted various models for reaching unchurched people. An “attractional” model will seek to attract people to a local church. Younger leaders may advocate a more “missional” approach, in which believers live and work among unchurched people and intentionally seek to serve like Christ. While each of...

First, the definition needs to be biblical (as Jesus defined it), and second, it needs to be clear. What we’re aiming for is a definition that every leader in our church understands and operates by, so we don’t want a complicated definition that no one can remember. At the same time, we don’t want to leave out something that Jesus taught. So it must be simple enough that a child can understand but as complex as it was meant to be. Think of the definition as a map on the wall. It’s visible, accessible,