Table of Contents
Disciplemaking
Mentoring
See the separate wiki page on mentoring.
Intentional Disciplemaking: SEND's philosophy
- see this page: Intentional Discipleship
Motivating your team in disciple-making
The 2020 Europe Leadership Development Cohort created this document and the accompanying assessment.
- Motivating People to Disciple > guide for team leaders
- Assessment > self-assessment to determine one's motivational level in disciple-making
Discipleship levels
- SEND's Discipleship Levels used in Connect & Pray
- Discipleship levels for outreach to an unreached people group (as customized by a SEND team).
- Phases in the discipleship journey of an individual: ABWE's Evangelism & Discipleship Scale
- The profile of a disciple from the Gospel of a Matthew - developed by Ken Guenther
Making disciples who make disciples
- Discipling disciple-makers a SEND U blog post by David North.
- Make Disciples: What Kind of Disciples? a SEND U blog post by David North.
Discipleship Materials
- Disciple-Making Movements (DMM) and Church Planting Movements (CPM & T4T) page of the wiki provides helps in growing disciples particularly in group contexts.
- Banding Together: A Practical Guide for Disciple Makers Leader's Guide recommended by Jack Gilbert > Banding Together looks back at the disciple-making “bands” of John Wesley. Its main goal is to get people into the scriptures daily, journaling, and applying the scriptures.
- Discipleship Essentialsrecommended by Jack Gilbert > is a tool for taking a small group (3-4) of people through a number of theological and scriptural concepts. It is a tool based on Ogden's Transforming Discipleship.
- New Life in Christ > The New Life In Christ discipleship manuals were designed to help Christians grow. The lessons will help new believers take their first steps towards victory in their Christian life. The original volume was written in Spanish, and later translated into English, Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian, German, Tagalog, and several other languages. Recommended by Craig Nordgren.
D-House (Discipleship House) and Engage programs
see this page
Books about discipleship
Cross-cultural disciple-making
- Walking Together on the Jesus Road: Intercultural Discipling by Evelyn & Richard Hibbert. See Ken Guenther's review of this book. Also reviewed on the SEND U blog.
- Effective Discipling in Muslim Communities: History and Seasoned Practices by Don Little. Reviewed on the SEND U blog.
- Discipling in a Multicultural World by Ajith Fernando. Biblical principles about discipling and examples about how they apply in daily life and ministry. Reviewed by Gary Ridley on the SEND U blog.
- The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't by Julia Galef. Reviewed by Ken Guenther on the SEND U blog.
Personal disciple-making
- Transforming Discipleship recommended by Jack Gilbert > looks at the ministries of Jesus and Paul in order to ask the question, “how should one make disciples?” This is a book about forming a disciple-making paradigm.
- Personal Disciplemaking: A Step-By-Step Guide for Leading a New Christian From New Birth to Maturity by Christopher Adsit. Recommended by Brett Hamilton. “He lays out a type of grid of discipleship through various phases of growth (baby, child, young adult, adult) with key spiritual disciplines (prayer, witnessing, word, family, etc). It is a helpful tool to be aware of needing to repeat certain foundational truths at various depths and not to dump the truck of theological truths too much or too fast on a young growing believer.”
- Strategic Disciple Making: A Practical Tool for Successful Ministry by Aubrey Malphurs. Recommended by Bernhard Triebel. Addresses the preparation of disciple-makers and the process of disciple-making.
Disciple-making in a church (or church planting) context
- The Vine Project: Shaping your ministry culture around disciple-making by Colin Marshall and Tony Payne. Reviewed by Ken Guenther on the SEND U blog.
- The Trellis and the Vine by Colin Marshall and Tony Payne.
- Hearers and Doers: A Pastor's Guide to Making Disciples through Scripture and Doctrine by Kevin Vanhoozer. See Gary Ridley's book review on the SEND U blog.
- Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned way by J. I. Packer and Gary A. Parrett about using catechesis as a form of disciple-making. See Gary Ridley's blog post reviewing this book.
- Life Change Groups, as done by Joel & Elaine Loewen in Japan. Based on the book,
- Sticky Teams and Sticky Church by Larry Osbourne
- Community: Taking Your Small Group Off Life Support, by Brad House
- Biblical Foundations for the Cell-based Church, by Joel Comiskey
- The Big Book On Small Groups, by Jeffrey Arnold
- Emotionally Healthy Discipleship by Peter Scazzero. See book review by Jenny Baker on SEND U Blog.
Articles about discipleship
- Discipling Others by Ron Hardy. Ron shares some of the principles that he has used in the past as he has discipled hundreds of high school and college students over the past 40 years
- The Lausanne Cape Town Commitment > discipleship and disciple-making is emphasized at several points in the commitment
Online courses on discipleship
- Online course with our partners at WorldTeam called: Discipleship: Growing Mature Followers of Jesus with challenging content and stimulating discussion with other learners who see the critical role of discipleship in church planting among the unreached.
Podcasts about discipleship
Diaspora Ministry
Diaspora ministry > Click on the link for the SENDU wiki page on Diaspora
Ethnography
Ethnography > Click on the link for the SEND U wiki page on Ethnography
Evangelism
Evangelism > Click on the link for the SEND U wiki page on Evangelism
Muslim Ministry
Muslim ministry page > Click on the link for the SEND U wiki page on Muslim Ministry
Story-telling
Story-telling > Click on the link for the SEND U wiki page on Story-telling
Youth Ministry
See the wiki pages on SEND's Youth Ministry
Transformational Development
Transformational Development > Click on the link for the SEND U wiki page on Transformational Development
Multiplying Disciple Makers
Multiplying Disciple Makers Romania 2024 > Click on the link for the SEND U wiki page on Multiplying Disciple Makers