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Bath Deanery . Everyone a disciple Everyone a disciple-maker. THE STORY SO FAR. 2011. CHANGE. CHANGE . VISION FOR GROWTH. MAKING DISCIPLES. VISION.
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Bath Deanery Everyone a disciple Everyone a disciple-maker
VISION Our desire is to see hundreds more people drawn into discipleship and our whole community changed and transformed by God’s loving rule.
ONGOING REVIEW • EVERY parish to draw up a DISCIPLESHIP VISION as a basis for ongoingreview
A DISCIPLESHIP VISION outlines the way that achurch hopes to make and nurture disciples
HOW ARE DISCIPLES MADE AND NURTURED?
Making IMPRESSION INVITATION INSTRUCTION IMMERSION IMITATION Growing
Making aDISCIPLESHIP VISION • Agree underlying assumptions about discipleship • Gain agreement over developing and implementing a Discipleship Vision • Agree a definition of discipleship • Set out a simple Discipleship Vision Statement • Agree a way to embed this vision in the life of the church family • Determine the process through which you currently make and nurture disciples
Making IMPRESSION INVITATION INSTRUCTION IMMERSION IMITATION Growing
Making aDISCIPLESHIP VISION • Determine ways to improve theseor how you will develop them further • Determine the way you will equip the saints for whole life discipleship and ministry • Set out how you will evaluate the level of discipleship in the life of the church and review the discipleship culture of the church for different groups of people