Discipleship Based Churches Quotes

“A simple word study can also show the importance of being a disciple. For example, the words “Christian” and “believer,” are only found roughly 30x combined in the New Testament, while the word “disciple” is found over 250x.”
― Joe Wyrostek, Discipleship Based Churches: How to Create and Maintain a Church of Disciples

“As students, we were taught to build churches by doing big outreaches, getting people saved, and then we were to disciple the new believers. The only problem with that was that we spent more time planning the monster outreaches than we did on discipleship.”
― Joe Wyrostek, Discipleship Based Churches: How to Create and Maintain a Church of Disciples

“Only 23% of U.S. churchgoers attend small groups during the week.”
― Joe Wyrostek, Discipleship Based Churches: How to Create and Maintain a Church of Disciples

“The reformation today’s church needs is one of discipleship. Discipleship is the process by which disciples grow and are taught to live like Jesus.”
― Joe Wyrostek, Discipleship Based Churches: How to Create and Maintain a Church of Disciples