Disciple Making
FROM THE LIFE OF CHRIST
a study in
Goals
PURPOSE
1. To discuss our _________
2. To define the end _________
PRODUCT
3. To look at the disciplemaking _________
PROCESS
4. To determine your PLAN
_____(strategy)
Two Core Convictions
1. Jesus was about creating a movement
MULTIPLICATION
of _______________.
Power of Multiplication:
What would you rather have?
1 Million dollars a day for 30 days
OR
$1 a day doubled for 30 days
$2,142,000,000
OR
714 times the 30 million!!
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Power of Multiplication:
How thick would 50th fold =
the 50th fold of
17,000,000
a thin Indigo
miles thick...
Bible page be?
distance to
moon and
back... 35X’s
!!
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Power of Multiplication:
How long would it take to win the world to Christ?
Win 1000 people a day
OR
One reproducing disciple every six months?
Addition: 17,534 years (if no one else born)
Multiplication: year 1 = 4, year 2 = 16,
year 3 = 64, year 8 = 64,000,
year 12 = 17,088,000,
year 17 = done!!
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“We have a hard time with this
kind of progression, because
the end result seems so far out
of proportion to the cause.”
Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point (p.11)
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Two Core Convictions
1. Jesus was about creating a movement
MULTIPLICATION
of _______________
WALK AS Jesus
2. We are told to “_________
DO what I have been
walked” to “___
PATTERN
doing”...and to follow the “_________”
set by the Lord.
The Son’s Strategy
The Process of Building a Movement
First 30 Years
3 Major Events
Mission &
Motive
Product &
Process
Rural Judean
Wilderness
Capernaum
Choose the
twelve
Only 2 miracles
30+ miracles
50+outreach events
2 1/2 Years
Come and see
1 1/2 years
Follow me...
fishers of men
Man of Peace
Relationally Driven
Priorities
1-6
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Priority
7
Priority
8
Priority
9
The Son’s Strategy
87%
Sunday Morning
Sunday School
Wed Prayer Mtg.
Small Groups
THE FATHER’S AGENDA
Phase1
The Preparation
Period
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About 30 Years
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18-21 Months
6-9 Months
About 15 Months
Our MISSION Matthew 28:18-20
Christ’s last words summed up the single mission of
His life. His last words include one command and
three participial phrases (verb forms):
MAKE DISCIPLES
FIRST COMMAND = “___________________”
THREE VERBS
= 1. ________
GOING
2. _____________
BAPTIZING
3. ____________________
TEACHING THEM TO
_______
OBEY
A SECOND IMPERATIVE = “__________”
BEHOLD
Our MISSION Matthew 28:18-20
...Conclusion on our Mission:
CLEAR
1. Our mission is ________.
2. Wrapped around Matthew 28 is the promise
PRESENCE
of Christ’s active manifest ______________.
3. A Great Commission healthy ministry is not
BIG or ________
BUSY ministry.
necessarily a ______
Tasks
Task
Oriented
Service
Projects
People
Care
Projects
Servant to
the body of
Christ
Evangelism
Projects
Sharing our
faith on a
short-term
basis
Caring for
Believers
Ongoing care
for peers in the
body of Christ
Caring for
Unbelievers
Ongoing care
for peers
outside the
body of Christ
Sharing
Christ
Influencing
peers through
planting &
reaping with
the church’s
help
Disciple making
Lifestyle
Initiating new
relationships
for the purpose
of evangelism
and nurture
Matthew 4:19
Luke 10:21
Acts 8:4
Implications:
A. Leaders tend to REPRODUCE
______________________who
PEOPLE
are at the same spiritual
level as they are...
B. We must champion the M6-M7 lifestyle--_________________
MAKING HEROES of
those who are involved in the process of reaching and discipling their
peers.
C. A fully trained disciple is LIVING
_______ an M6-M7 lifestyle, but because
of giftedness may be ministering in the ministry at another level of
ministry.
Implications:
HELP and not _______
HINDER
D. The program structure must _____
believers from living an M7 lifestyle.
E. Ministries must help believers with outreach through
TEAM EFFORT evangelism, not just personal evangelism.
____________
THE 5.3 PRINCIPLE - A typical unchurched person must get to know at least 5.3
believers relationally before they will trust the message of Christianity.
Conclusions:
1. Where are you personally on the M1-M7 chart?
2. What will it take for you to move closer to a M7
lifestyle?
3. What will it take in your ministry to move more people
to an M7 lifestyle?
4. Over the next 5 years what is your faith goal for
multiplication?
THE FATHER’S AGENDA
Phase1
The
Process
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Five Stages
THE LOST
1. ___________
THE POINT OF CONVERSION
2. _____________________________
THE BELIEVER
3. __________________________
THE WORKER
4. _______________
THE MATURE DISCIPLE
5. ________________________
THE OVERSEER
_________________
Conclusions:
1. Each step of the journey is _________________.
SUPERNATURAL
OK
2. People are at different levels of growth and that is ____.
3. The active presence of the _____________
HOLY SPIRIT is critical.
4. A healthy ministry is a _____________.
MESSY ONE
FULLY TRAINED
5. Every believer needs to be ________________...
but not every Christian will
GIFTEDNESS not
ABILITY and _____________
enter into “leadership”... this is based upon ________
just maturity.