Membership to Discipleship: Growing Mature Disciples Who Make Disciples

by Philip Maynard

Our mission is to make disciples of Jesus Christ… yet there seems to be a lack of certainty about how to go about doing this.  Drawing on the experiences of those congregations doing this well and on the best of current research, this resource provides practical steps for helping disciples in our congregation become more like Jesus.

Genres: Discipleship

144 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2015

Reviews

[Logan Streondj · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first chapter was pretty promising, even mentioned Jesus and a few of his sayings. But much of the rest was focused on like mechanics of increasing church membership rather than on how to integrate Jesus's teachings into one's life. The only elements of Jesus's teachings which were mentioned were outer works like helping the poor, and not the internal transformation of letting God into your heart, and learning to forgive and love all beings.

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

While there has been countless discussion around what it means to be a member of a church, we need more conversations about what it means to be a faithful disciple. This book begins that conversation on a personal and corporate level