Contagious Disciple Making: Leading Others on a Journey of Discovery
Ebook
Overview
How can we dream of growing the church in an indifferent world? In Contagious Disciple Making, David Watson and Paul Watson map out a simple discipleship method that has sparked an explosion of homegrown churches in the United States and around the world. This distinct process focuses on equipping spiritual leaders in communities where churches are planted. Unlike many evangelism and church-growth products that focus on quick results, this “contagious” disciple-making takes time to cultivate spiritual leadership, resulting in lasting disciple-making movements. Through Contagious Disciple Making readers will come to understand that a well-equipped leader will continue to grow the church long after church planters move on to the next church.
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For more discipleship resources, check out Francis Chan’s Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples.
Key Features
- Outlines a discipleship method focused on developing spiritual leaders
- Provides practical techniques to equip others to make disciples
- Examines the discipleship processes of successful church plants
Contents
- Part 1: The Mindset of a Disciple Maker
- Disciple-Makers Embrace Lessons Taught by Failure
- Disciple-Makers Deculturalize, Not Contextualize, the Gospel
- Disciple-Makers Plant the Gospel Rather than Reproduce Their Religion
- Disciple-Makers Realize How Hard Completing the Great Commission Will Be for Strategies and Organizations Built around Branded Christianity
- Disciple-Makers Realize the Structure of the Community Determines the Strategy Used to Make Disciples
- Disciple-Makers Realize Their Culture and Religious Experience Can Negatively Influence Their Disciple-Making Unless They Are Very Careful
- Disciple-Makers Understand the Importance of Obedience
- Disciple-Makers Make Disciples, Not Converts
- Disciple-Makers Understand the Importance of the Priesthood of the Believer
- Part 2: Practices of a Disciple-Maker
- Thinking Strategically and Tactically about Disciple-Making
- Be a Disciple Who Makes Disciples
- Prayer
- Engage Lost People
- Finding a Person of Peace
- Discovery Groups
- Establishing Churches
- Leadership
- Mentoring
Top Highlights
“We defined a Church-Planting Movement as an indigenously led Gospel-planting and obedience-based discipleship process that resulted in a minimum of one hundred new locally initiated and led churches, four generations deep, within three years.” (Page 4)
“God taught me, through many failures, that I had to focus on making disciples of Christ, not followers of my church or denomination. He also taught me that I needed to teach these disciples to obey the commands of Jesus, not my church/denominational doctrines or traditions. This is what led to the breakthrough that resulted in more than eighty thousand churches among a people considered unreachable.” (Page 4)
“How do we help the millions of lost people who will never step foot inside the doors of existing churches fall in love with Jesus?” (Page xv)
“The role of the cross-cultural worker is to deculturalize the Gospel—presenting the Gospel without commentary, but with the question, ‘How will we obey what God has said?’ If it’s not in the Bible, don’t introduce it to the culture. The role of the cultural worker is also to contextualize the Gospel—presenting the Gospel and asking, ‘What must we change in our lives and culture in order to be obedient to all the commands of Christ?’” (Page 17)
“In reality we have been teaching knowledge, not obedience. Most people already know what they are supposed to do, but they choose not to do it.” (Page 46)
About the Authors
David Watson serves as the vice president of Global Disciple Making with CityTeam Ministries, San Jose, California. His primary responsibility is to catalyze disciple making movements in difficult to reach people groups, cities and countries around the world.
Paul Watson is the city director of CityTeam Ministry’s recovery center in Portland, Oregon.
