Edited by Mark Greene and Tracy Cotterell, this is a rich and practical collection of essays from fifteen multi-disciplinary experts and practitioners representing a breadth of churchmanship who reflect deeply on this key issue for the UK church: how can we grow whole-life missionary disciples and disciple-makers who can make a difference in today’s rapidly changing world?
Contents
Foundations
Reflecting on scripture
2: What did Moses do? Discipleship BC
David Firth
3: Ephesians 4 ministries and spiritual formation
Greg Haslam
Wisdom from earlier generations, wisdom for today
4: From darkness to light: lessons in disciple-making from our
great-grandparents in Christ
Martyn Atkins
5: The ‘end’ of discipleship: John Wesley’s vision of real
Christianity
Phil Meadows
6: Shaping the disciple’s mind
Graham McFarlane
Pastoral perspectives
7: Why do churches resist disciple-making?
Steve Davie
8: Empire or Kingdom: the pastor’s dilemma
John S. Smith
9: What are leaders for?
Paul Weaver
10:Leadership matters: developing leaders for the disciple-making
church
James Lawrence
Responding to human diversity
11:The human disciple
Brian Draper
12:As a young person, what would Jesus do?
Jason Gardner
13:Learning to live: can adult education best practice contribute
towards the making of Christian disciples?
Margaret Killingray
Learning from current practice
14:What does disciple-making look like in the emerging church?
Jason Clark
15:Lessons from Cell
Laurence Singlehurst
16:Experiments in 21st century disciple-making
Jan McCuin
Postscript
Creating disciple-making churches today: The Imagine Project
Tracy Cotterell
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