Organic Discipleship Process
The four points of organic discipleship are not a program or a curriculum; rather they are four essential movements that you can adapt and apply to your local church context and setting to rapidly make disciples in the 21st century. Regardless of your culture or context these four foundations will help you begin to make missionally minded disciples of Christ who are committed to changing their world by reproducing themselves in others with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Gospel
The Gospel is the seed and foundation of the entire discipleship process from beginning to end. Without the gospel, discipleship will become works based and will eventually dry up and die. Each stage of our discipleship process should also be gospel-centered.
Missional
Missionality is the outreach impulse of making disciples. It is the force that compels us to go out and make disciples through word and deed. Without it, discipleship would be inward focused. There are groups who focus merely on inward spiritual disciplines without ever taking seriously the call to make disciples. Missional ministry moves us beyond ourselves to share the gospel with our friends, family, and neighbors.
Community
The third element of the organic discipleship process is to develop pathways for people to build authentic Christ centered community. Discipleship must take place within the context of the Christian community. Disciples are made in community not isolation.
Reproduction
Reproduction is the ultimate goal of discipleship. We need to rediscover the reproductive nature of the church. We are called to select, train, and send missional disciples of Christ out in the world who will be able repeat the process of discipleship. What we need in our day is an organic disciple making movement that will train and send men and women to be reproducing disciples of Christ.
HT: Winfield Bevins
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