Comments on: A Good Discipleship Program http://www.tillhecomes.org/a-good-discipleship-program/ Bringing Scripture and Theology to Life Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:46:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeremy Myers http://www.tillhecomes.org/a-good-discipleship-program/#comment-959 Jeremy Myers Fri, 16 May 2008 14:22:26 +0000 http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/?p=311#comment-959 Katdish, Is your plant connected to Vince Antonucci somehow? I saw on your own blog that you link to his blog. Your question is so good, I'm going to do a post on it today. So check it out! Katdish,

Is your plant connected to Vince Antonucci somehow? I saw on your own blog that you link to his blog.

Your question is so good, I’m going to do a post on it today. So check it out!

]]> By: Moving Toward Missional | TILL HE COMES Blog http://www.tillhecomes.org/a-good-discipleship-program/#comment-960 Moving Toward Missional | TILL HE COMES Blog Fri, 16 May 2008 14:13:11 +0000 http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/?p=311#comment-960 [...] (Kathy Richards) asked a great question on a previous post of mine, and I realized my reply needed to be it’s own post. Here is what she asked: [...] [...] (Kathy Richards) asked a great question on a previous post of mine, and I realized my reply needed to be it’s own post. Here is what she asked: [...]

]]> By: katdish http://www.tillhecomes.org/a-good-discipleship-program/#comment-958 katdish Thu, 15 May 2008 22:42:43 +0000 http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/?p=311#comment-958 Thank you for the post. We're in the beginning stages of planting a church. I've been reading quite a few blogs about church planting. I like what I've been reading for the most part. My biggest challenge/question to date has been how do we convince the "regular" church people that they need to leave the building in order to follow Christ? I just think they're missing out on what it means to really impact the world. The "build it and they will come" philosophy just isn't working anymore -- if it ever really did. Thank you for the post. We’re in the beginning stages of planting a church. I’ve been reading quite a few blogs about church planting. I like what I’ve been reading for the most part. My biggest challenge/question to date has been how do we convince the “regular” church people that they need to leave the building in order to follow Christ? I just think they’re missing out on what it means to really impact the world. The “build it and they will come” philosophy just isn’t working anymore — if it ever really did.

]]> By: Jeremy Myers http://www.tillhecomes.org/a-good-discipleship-program/#comment-957 Jeremy Myers Thu, 15 May 2008 14:15:06 +0000 http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/?p=311#comment-957 William, And the genius with letting the disciples "aks questions along the way" is that they will generally ask questions that they need to know in order to continue serving. This will not only enable them to serve more effectively, but will also give them excitement, and immediate practical application to what they are learning. Both of these things, of course, makes what they learn much more memorable. Remember the disciples? They had seen Jesus pray and realized that it was one of the secrets of His power, and so one day they come to Jesus and basically said, "How can we pray like you?" Jesus didn't sit them down on day of the "Jesus discipleship program" and say, "Okay, today we're going to learn how to pray, and tomorrow how to study your Bible." No. He just went out with them and ministered with them and when they realized that prayer was so essential, they came to him to learn how to pray. And I guarantee that they began to practice what He taught. William,

And the genius with letting the disciples “aks questions along the way” is that they will generally ask questions that they need to know in order to continue serving. This will not only enable them to serve more effectively, but will also give them excitement, and immediate practical application to what they are learning. Both of these things, of course, makes what they learn much more memorable.

Remember the disciples? They had seen Jesus pray and realized that it was one of the secrets of His power, and so one day they come to Jesus and basically said, “How can we pray like you?”

Jesus didn’t sit them down on day of the “Jesus discipleship program” and say, “Okay, today we’re going to learn how to pray, and tomorrow how to study your Bible.” No. He just went out with them and ministered with them and when they realized that prayer was so essential, they came to him to learn how to pray. And I guarantee that they began to practice what He taught.

]]> By: William N. Donaldson http://www.tillhecomes.org/a-good-discipleship-program/#comment-956 William N. Donaldson Thu, 15 May 2008 05:44:47 +0000 http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/?p=311#comment-956 Jeremy, Good post. I think I read some stats recently that churches which have the baseball diamond (four bases of fellowship, discipleship, ministry, evangelism) find a lot of drop off in between discipleship and ministry, and even more drop off between between ministry and evangelism. So let's say 100 new people join the church (fellowship), maybe 70 of them will sign up for discipleship classes. Of these 70, only about 10 will join the ministry team (10% of the church does 90% of the work), and of these 10, only 2 will enter the evangelism program. I like what you present here, since it seems that all aspects of discipleship will be taking place simultaneously. It's not first join, then learn, then serve in the church, until you are finally ready to share the gospel. Instead it's, let's go serve and share from day one, and you can ask questions along the way. Jeremy,

Good post. I think I read some stats recently that churches which have the baseball diamond (four bases of fellowship, discipleship, ministry, evangelism) find a lot of drop off in between discipleship and ministry, and even more drop off between between ministry and evangelism.

So let’s say 100 new people join the church (fellowship), maybe 70 of them will sign up for discipleship classes. Of these 70, only about 10 will join the ministry team (10% of the church does 90% of the work), and of these 10, only 2 will enter the evangelism program.

I like what you present here, since it seems that all aspects of discipleship will be taking place simultaneously. It’s not first join, then learn, then serve in the church, until you are finally ready to share the gospel. Instead it’s, let’s go serve and share from day one, and you can ask questions along the way.

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