Much ink and many pages have been devoted to all of the missional issues facing the Western church today. As our culture becomes more post-Christian with each passing day, we are all realizing that what has worked in the past is no longer working, that we are far less effective for the Kingdom than we were even 10 years ago. But we would suggest it isn't because we don't know what the Great Commission states or the imperatives of the Gospel, or that our church services just aren't getting it done.
Its because we are in the midst of a discipleship crisis in the Western church. The people sitting in our pews are rarely becoming like the people we read about in Scripture. They may come to a worship service, join a small group or even tithe, but their lives just don't seem to look like Jesus life.
The truth of the matter is that we don't have a missional problem or leadership problem in the Western church. We have a discipleship problem. If we make disciples like Jesus made them, well never have a problem finding leaders or seeing new people coming to faith.
The central issue is that we have no idea how to make disciples who can do the things that Jesus did for the reasons Jesus did them. Building a Discipling Culture is the product of more than 25 years of hands-on discipleship practice in a post-Christian context that has turned into a worldwide discipling movement, dealing specifically with how to make the types of missional disciples Jesus spoke of. We all want to make disciples. Most of us are unsure how to do it.
Dallas Willard put it this way: Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. One, do we have a plan for making disciples? Two, does our plan work?
For most of our church communities, we have a plan, but the plan isn't working.
If you find yourself in this situation, this book is for you.

Building a Discipling Culture, 3rd Edition

Religion & Spirituality

Mike Breen

Christian Books & Bibles

3DM international

For the past decade it has become apparent that the modern church models and methods are no longer effective. The seeker-sensitive movement of the 90's is ineffective. The high control/low accountability systems are not working. The preoccupation with programs, property and products is "missing the mark". Churches are not places where post-moderns will go to get their religious goods and services as modern consumers did. There's a new day dawning with unprecedented opportunities to transform our churches from the inside out. That is what this book, "The Passionate Church", is all about. Written for pastors and leaders. ("A Passionate Life" was written by the same authors for the layperson/seeker.)

The Passionate Church: The Art Of Life-Changing Discipleship (Life Shape, The Language Of Leadership)

Walt Kallestad

NexGen (Cook Communications Ministries )

Kit Contents:A Passionate Life  Authors Mike Breen and Walt Kallestad want to show others how to live A Passionate Life! Small group members learn how to live their faith the way God intended. in simple steps, they'll learn what it means to be a true follower in ways that are easy to remember and to apply to every situation and relationship in their lives.Leader's Guide  This guide equips the leader to guide their group through A Passionate Life materials, including the DVD and PowerPoint presentations. The Guide helps facilitate class discussion, individual discussion and homework/application as well as an accountability time in which each week's previous application is discussed.Six (6) Workbooks  Working through this workbook, alongside the DVD and Leader's presentation, group participants become fully equipped to apply the principles of spiritual growth and change presented in LifeShapes and trade; to their own lives.DVD  This eight session DVD allows the viewer to experience the passion, practicality, and simplicity of Mike Breen's teaching. Filmed on location in beautiful Colorado Springs, this DVD provides easy transitions into teaching segments and also includes PowerPoint slides.

A Passionate Life Small Group Resource Kit

Nexgen

Book by Breen, Mike, Kalestad, Walt

A Passionate Life

Outside in

Scripture Union Publishing

We often wonder what Jesus will ask us when we meet Him face to face. We believe that some of his first questions will be about discipleship. How have we followed His Great Commission to make disciples? How many disciples did we raise up to do greater things than we ourselves achieved? Who "imitates our lives as we imitate Christ"? Jesus did not command us to build the church; He called us to make disciples. Effective discipleship creates the church, not the other way around. This is the first of many new Huddle resources that will give you practical and Biblical insights on building a culture of discipleship in your community. For more information see www.weare3dm.com, or email info@weare3dm.com.

Building a Discipling Culture Huddle Guide

3DM Publishing

Are you longing to see your congregations, colleagues and friends come closer to Jesus, to have a faith that transforms every aspect of their lives? 'Jesus said, "The time has come...the Kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!"'(Mark 1:15) We maintain balance in our spiritual lives by a process of constantly moving forward - using both 'pedals' of repentance and faith. But how do we get started? In Continuous Breakthrough, Mike Breen shows us how Jesus taught his disciples to learn from their experiences, to recognize the 'kairos' that remind us of the nearness of God's Kingdom. Once we learn to recognize these momentous events in our life, we can begin the process of repentance and faith, so that continuous breakthrough becomes a permanent and dynamic part of our discipleship walk.

Continuous Breakthrough

Leadership is one of the most over-used and overwrought topics in Christian ministry today. Yet for all the books, blogs and conferences, there are two staggering realities we must come to grips with: First, while most churches believe they have leadership development programs, in actuality, they have programs that recruit and train volunteers, not leaders. A volunteer is someone who executes someone else's vision. A leader is someone with a vision of their own. In truth, there are often only a few leaders in the average church and everyone else are simply executing their vision. It's the genius with a thousand helpers.Perhaps more troubling, though, is that our development programs are not about releasing leaders to the missional frontier, but volunteers keeping the machine of the church running. To be sure, we should attend to the organization of the church, for it is a significant thing when the scattered church gathers. But as the Church stares precipitous decline in the face-as we look to re-embrace the missio Dei-we must learn again the art that Jesus mastered: the task of multiplying missional leaders and releasing them to the cracks and crevices of society where there is little-to-no Kingdom presence.People often like quippy sayings like, "We want to be known more for our sending capacity than our seating capacity." This book is about how that can become a reality in your community.

Multiplying Missional Leaders

Crowdscribed LLC

Covenant and Kingdom: The DNA of the Bible

Missional Communities (MCs) are a hot topic right now in the church, and many are excited about the potential of MCs to be a vehicle that allows the church to better live out its mission in the world. But if we embrace and implement MCs merely as a new program, they won't live up to their potential and we'll be on to the next hot topic in a few months. Mcs are helpful only if we use them as a vehicle that allows us to point ourselves towards a much deeper issue: how we can learn to live our everyday lives as extended families on mission. We call this reality oikos ("household" in Greek), and that's actually what this book is about. Think of it like this: an MC is a great vehicle, but vehicles are suppose to take you somewhere. The destination the vehicle of MC takes us to is oikos. ...

Leading Missional Communities

Zondervan

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