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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...

This second attribute of a disciple is primarily a spiritual response to the Holy Spirit. It speaks to people at the heart level, as they assimilate the Word of Christ and allow the Holy Spirit to transform their inner being (Eph. 3:14–18). Jesus is moving in their life and causing changes in their heart that lead to the development of their character. Far too many of us assume that discipleship is merely the transfer of information leading to behavior modification. But discipleship, at heart, involves