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Developing Your Churches’ Discipleship Strategy

Developing Your Churches’ Discipleship Strategy. Growing Churches Harrisburg Baptist Church Tupelo, Mississippi. Buzz Words Discipleship DNA Open and Closed Groups. Process (model) Transformation Small Group. Connect(ion) Missional Community.

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Developing Your Churches’ Discipleship Strategy

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  1. Developing Your Churches’ Discipleship Strategy Growing Churches Harrisburg Baptist Church Tupelo, Mississippi

  2. Buzz Words Discipleship DNA Open and Closed Groups Process (model) Transformation Small Group Connect(ion) MissionalCommunity *We will likely be in minority groups in USA by 2050

  3. Disciple making that transforms lives Foundational ActivitiesWorship Small Groups Values Leadership Context Transformational churches make disciples whose lives are being transformed by the gospel so that the culture around them is ultimately transformed. They practice and make disciples through leadership.

  4. Ways Churches Make Disciples VitalLeadership Missional Mentality(prayerful dependence) RelationalIntentionality

  5. If your church disappeared tomorrow, would anyone recognize that it is gone?

  6. Focus on . . . • Strategy • Content • Strategy • Content Everything we do should be helping to make disciples!

  7. Continuum Biblical Community Relationships Biblical Content Sunday School SmallGroups Sunday School should be in the middle. At either end, it may become a closed group. Example: Plot every group in your church. The majority fall just left of center toward content.

  8. Make your CHURCHindispensable to your community!

  9. Models for D groups (strategies) Lost & Me Other Christians & Me My Family & Me God & Me

  10. We have a lack of people in outer groups because we don’t have many in inner circles. Write it on your doorposts. Deuteronomy 6:4-9 It is a family responsibility.

  11. LifeWayModel

  12. Disciple Making Process Disciple-making guides people to be transformed in Christlikeness so they think and act like Christ. ASSESSMENT INDIVIDUAL SPIRITUALFORMATION INVENTORY CHURCH INDIVIDUAL ADULT STUDENT CHILDHOOD CHRONOLOGICAL KNOWOWN KNOWN HEARKNOWDO CONNECTGO GROWSERVE INDIVIDUAL CHURCH ENTRY ENTRY MINISTRY TEAMS CORPORATEWORSHIP MINISTRY TRANSFORMATIONALCHURCH SURVEY CLOSEDGROUPSMYSELF + 1. GOD2. FAMILY3. OTHERS OPENGROUPS ENTRY ENTRY MESSAGE (Content of the Strategy) Lifespan . . . Birth to Heaven STRATEGY (Process within a Church to impact the individual) METHODOLOGY OR MODEL Customized according to the church and/or individual

  13. New Christian Maturing Christian Mobilized Christian

  14. Connection Depth Community Responsibility

  15. Prayer Share Care

  16. Every church needs . . . • New Believers • New Members • Leadership (training)

  17. DISCIPLESHIP SERVING GROWING MINISTRY FELLOWSHIP SHARING KNOWING EVANGELISM

  18. Strong Marriage • Equipped Parents • Missional Families • Personal Daily Devotion

  19. Beginning • Maturing • Reproducing • Heaven The making of disciples is the central command!

  20. Discipleship • What is our message? • What is our process?(strategy) • What is our plan?(time frame, location, resources) • What is our legacy?

  21. OR Where are we? Where do we want to go? What are we going to do to get there?

  22. “Discipleship is more than getting to know what the teacher knows. It is getting to be what He is.”J.C. Ortiz

  23. Discipleship . . . What can you do? Read the Bible Be a part of 2 or 3 small groups Be a part of an Acts 2 church

  24. Discipleship groups equip believers to . . . develop defend deploy display disciple declare devote depend

  25. Simple Plan Group/Community Group Worship/Group Worship/Group Worship/Group Worship/Group Discipleship … some are confused Group/Community Group Group/Community Group Group/Community Group “Stop repeating the past and start creating the future!” M. Batterson

  26. Marriage and Family Fireproof Family Folder Love Dare The Parent Adventure The Family God Uses The Secret to the Marriage You Want As the family goes, so goes the church

  27. Indicators of a Strong Family • Strong Marriage • Equipped Parents • Missional Families • Personal Daily Devotion Discipleship is a journey! What you get in the end is what you put into it along the way.

  28. Transformational Churches People are looking for: Transformed lives Transformational churches Hope Ask no longer what should a small group do, instead what should the group help people become.

  29. Open Groups . . . . Closed Groups Closed Groups Open Groups Regulars and Guests Other Christians and Me Southern Baptists are used to (have built on) a cookie cutter ministry.

  30. Small Group Life Theological Relational Restorational The primary pie is the draw for most people

  31. Small Group Subsystems • Cell Groups/Holistic Small Groups • Making Extraordinary Disciples • Free Market System • Open Small Groups • Closed Small Groups • Preference of Two (or more) Group Types • Organic Community Groups When planning discipleship, think first about the individual and then the church.

  32. Define it … a full devoted follow of Christ Characteristics that are reproducible of Jesus: Servant, love, connected (relational) . . . A disciple is one who disciples others

  33. How do we help our churches make disciples? Ask Questions!

  34. ? ? What are you doing? What are you doing that is making disciples? ? ? What are you doing that is not making disciples? What can you do to make more disciples?

  35. Ask questions of individuals Are you in a small group? What books are you reading? What service are you involved in outside of the church? Tell me about your salvation experience Worship Who are you discipling? Quiet time, Bible study, prayer

  36. Pastors need to disciple church leaders and let that filter down.

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