5000+ MC’s, 6 continents, 750 church plants in the last 3 years.
The one thing you need to know from these experiences?
Discipleship is at the heart of all we do. If we make disciples, we always get the church. If we focus on building the church, we will rarely get disciples.
What is your plan for making disciples?
Does your plan work?
We don’t have a leadership problem primarily?
We don’t have a missional problem primarily?
We do have a discipleship problem. We struggle to make disciples who make disciples. Who live like Jesus, doing what he did.
Jesus invited his disciples into covenant relationship but also sent them out with Kingdom responsibility.
3DM – leaders invite people into their missional community (huddles).
Discipleship according to Jesus model is threefold:
Information -> Imitation -> Innovation
Information – teaching is an important part but only one part of how Jesus does discipleship
Imitation – Rabbis weren’t just about information but would give access to their lives so their disciples could see how they lived their lives. 1 Corinthians 11:1. Does our plan for discipleship include imitation? Rather than our huddles just being inside, we were invited into mission along with our leaders. They invited us into Kingdom responsibility. Are we prepared to open our lives for others to imitate? Do we have the time? Will we allow the access? Does anyone want your life?
Innovation – Jesus told them that they would do greater things. (I’m sure they didn’t believe him). But Peter preached on Pentecost and 3000 were baptized. They helped launch and lead the church. They taught, they shepherded, they healed, they poured into lives, and invited people into covenant relationships and Kingdom responsibility.
Discipleship is making disciples who make disciples who make disciples.
God is still doing this today.
What did God say to you this week? Was it the city? Was it the 60% who are not being reached by an attractional church alone?
Make disciples and go. Make disciples who make disciples who make disciples.
What we’ll find if we’ll go to the broken and to the lost, is that they will huddle around our kitchen tables.
The world is waiting for us. They may not recognize it, they may not feel it, but it is their hunger.
16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28:16-20
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