DiscipleShift Quotes

“Inspired by Jesus (literally), we seek to love people and tell them what we have found in him.”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

“Relationships create a bridge over which the Word of God can travel and be heard and received.”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

“Leaders need to see the people they serve as their peers — unless they don’t really believe in the priesthood of all believers! Following Christ’s example, they choose to meet with a group of ordinary men and be real with them.”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

“An evangelism pastor would write something like, “The purpose of the church is to reach our community for the glory of God so we can make disciples.”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

“If we want to create a church truly committed to discipleship, every assumption about church needs to be filtered and reevaluated through the lens of the Scriptures and especially Jesus’ methods for doing discipleship and church.”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

“When they understand that every believer is to be a minister who serves Jesus and others with all they have, and then eventually to make disciples themselves, it changes the dynamic of the church. When pastors come face-to-face with this reality, it changes how they see all they do.”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

“A new scorecard begins to take shape when people in a church begin to think of themselves as spiritual beings who start out as infants when they are born again and are to become spiritual parents”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

“The Word of God, along with the Spirit of God and the people of God, are the three primary components in affecting life change.”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

“A mature spiritual person is relational. Relationship”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

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― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

“I truly believe that if people could see Jesus for who he really is, they would love him. The unfortunate thing is that most people who have rejected him have done so because they’ve been shown a false Jesus. That”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

“We often preach our best sermons with our lives and not our words.”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

“But attendance, busyness, construction, finances, and programs are not real indications of success. The core question of effectiveness — the question that ultimately matters — is whether the people who are getting saved are being conformed to the likeness of Christ. Are we making mature disciples of Jesus who are not only able to withstand the culture but are also making disciples of Jesus themselves? Let’s look at some research.”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

“The vision is that the church’s primary mission is to create disciples who create other disciples, just as Jesus intended us to do. It’s helping people see that the church isn’t a social club, it’s not a hospital, it’s not a university, and it’s not a big show. The church is a community that is developing people who follow Jesus, are changed by Jesus, and then join Jesus on his mission.”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

“This comes with the humble recognition that we will never be perfect this side of heaven, yet we also recognize that the Holy Spirit is doing his work and increasing spiritual fruit in our lives. If we model this for the church, then people who struggle on the path of discipleship will have a new model for growing in godliness. This is one reason why God, in his Book, gives us flawed, broken characters. The Bible is filled with the failures and sins of men and women, but those are the very people God saves and uses for his purposes. This should give us hope that he can use us as well.”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

“So that’s how I chose to enter pastoral ministry. Flawed, real, broken, and genuine. I thought, I can try to be perfect and polished, but that’s never going to happen. Or I can enter ministry with authenticity — forgiven by God, continually cleansed from sin, and a model of growth, not perfection”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

“Far too many of us assume that discipleship is merely the transfer of information leading to behavior modification. But discipleship, at heart, involves transformation at the deepest levels of our understanding, affection, and will by the Holy Spirit, through the Word of God and in relationship with the people of God.”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

“discipleship meant “do what I do; go where I go.”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

“biblical leadership begins with who we are and our walk with God.”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

“Instead of seeking to hide their sin and project an image of perfection, church leaders need to show people they lead that they too are redeemed sinners growing in the ways of Christlikeness.”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

“Jesus doesn’t send us anywhere. He goes with us wherever we are.”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

“The New Testament church was all about being and making disciples of Jesus.”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

“churches are full of “Christians” but not disciples,”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

“But attendance, busyness, construction, finances, and programs are not real indications of success. The core question of effectiveness — the question that ultimately matters — is whether the people who are getting saved are being conformed to the likeness of Christ. Are we making mature disciples of Jesus who are not only able to withstand the culture but are also making disciples of Jesus themselves?”
― Jim Putman, DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples