Centering Discipleship

A Pathway for Multiplying Spectators into Mature Disciples

E. K. Strawser (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2023
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-1-5140-0706-8 (ISBN)

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The church often lacks maturity and missional impact because discipleship is at its periphery. To get discipleship to the center, leaders need a locally rooted, culturally contextual discipleship pathway. This gutsy, practice-based guidebook is for leaders doing the hard work turning spectators into missional, mature followers of Jesus.

Discipleship without mission is discipleship without Christ.
The church often lacks maturity and missional impact because discipleship is at its periphery. In order to get discipleship to the center, leaders need a locally rooted, culturally contextual discipleship pathway to tether disciples who are disciplemakers to the neighborhood or network around them.
Pastor and discipler E. K. Strawser shows that when discipleship becomes central to your leadership and community, then discipleship becomes central to congregational mission and cultural renewal. Centering Discipleship is a gutsy practice-based guidebook for leaders who are doing the hard work of re-imagining and re-structuring their churches and communities to turn spectators into missional, mature followers of Jesus.

E. K. Strawser (DO, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine) is the co-vocational lead pastor of Ma Ke Alo o (which means "presence" in Hawaiian), non-denominational missional communities multiplying in Honolulu, Hawaii; a community physician at Ke Ola Pono; and an executive leader at the V3 Movement, the church planting arm of the Baptist General Association of Virginia. Prior to transitioning to Hawaii, she served as adjunct professor of medicine at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and of African Studies at her alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania (where she and her husband served with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship), after finishing her Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Dar es Salaam. She and Steve have three seriously amazing children.

Foreword by JR Woodward

Prologue

Part 1: Changing Our Job Description

1. Making Discipleship Central

2. The Nature of Discipleship

3. The Marks of a Mature Disciple

Part 2: Developing a Discipleship Pathway

4. From Past Recipes to Local Cuisine

5. Essential Ingredients for Any Pathway

6. The Journey of a Discipleship Pathway

Part 3: Underlying Assumptions of Discipleship

7. Discipleship Requires Transformation

8. Unmasking Our Discipleship Assumptions

9. Transforming Our Discipleship Assumptions

Part 4: Implementing Your Discipleship Pathway

10. The Four Spaces and Discipleship

11. Hurdles to Discipleship

12. Discipleship in Culture

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	17.07.2023
Vorwort	Jr Woodward
Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10	1-5140-0706-1 / 1514007061
ISBN-13	978-1-5140-0706-8 / 9781514007068
Zustand	Neuware