Organic Disciplemaking: Mentoring Others Into Spiritual Maturity and Leadership

by Dennis McCallum and Jessica Lowery

Book Overview

Disciples aren't made in classrooms. They're shaped through a relational transfer of knowledge, experience, and the work of the Holy Spirit! You are holding one of those special books you will rely... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0975289691
• ISBN13: 9780975289693
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Touch Publications
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Primer on Making Disciples

For a number of years now I've been working on a practical how-to book on discipleship. Dennis McCallum has beaten me to the punch with Organic Disciple Making. He's written the most practical book on how to disciple people I've ever read. Time and time again I find myself saying, "Yup, he nailed that one; that's how it works." For example, early on the book covers the subject of modeling and its key role in making disciples. Later it delves into the practical questions of how you counsel and disciple through various issues or how you deal with blocks in their development. For example McCallum distinguishes the difference between weakness and resistance and the appropriate response of a disciple maker. A disciple struggling with weakness generally needs encouragement, whereas a disciple who is resistant often needs confrontation and possibly discipline. I loved that the book had a whole section on coaching and I loved that its counsel is both biblically grounded and rooted in the everyday experience of someone who leads 250 home churches. I've read so many books on discipleship and few drill down to address the questions ordinary people have as they struggle to help their disciples grow. All of us who have committed ourselves to following Jesus and representing his name need to learn how to make disciples. It was the last thing he asked us to do before leaving the earth. If you as a Jesus-follower feel like you need help in learning how to do this in a way that feels natural, do yourself a favor and get Organic Disciple Making.

A Practical and Comprehensive Resource

In the long tradition of The Lost Art of Disciple Making, Multiplying Disciples, and Disciples Are Made, Not Born, Organic Disciplemaking: How to promote Christian leadership development through personal relationships, biblical discipleship, mentoring, and Christian community is designed to do more than tell about the need for making disciples of Jesus. This is a book that painstakingly provides a path from start to finish. This book has the potential to be used by small group coaches to disciple and develop small group leaders. With today's small group ministries launching groups with leaders just a step ahead of their members, this could be a very helpful resource providing a pathway for mentoring. In its pages you will find more than stories of how it's working at Xenos. You'll also find the practical steps needed to begin a disciplemaking ministry in your own church. More importantly, you may find the inspiration to look for one life to pour into. After all, that is the point.

Reap What You Sow

As much as I am learning about discipleship, I am learning even more about my own personal walk with Christ through the eyes of this book. I am challenged at every turn of the page to consider my strengths, weaknesses, and daily decisions as they impact my effectiveness in ministry. Discipleship is a love relationship expressed in service. Props to the authors!

An excellent read

This book is an excellent read. It is both Biblically sound and extemely practical. I would recomend it for anyone who is interested in learning how to do Christian ministry. Dealing with people is a challenge, and this book gives great insight into how to better understand people, and how to more effectively love them.

Comprehensive!

I was fortunate enough to have edited this book prior to publication. McCallum and Lowery leave no stone unturned when covering the discipleship process that goes on every day among a HUGE percentage of their home church, Xenos Christian Fellowship in Columbus, Ohio. Their process is called "organic" because it is highly relational and discipling others is part of the basic DNA of this church. I was able to glean more things for my own discipleship relationships than space provides here, hence the title "comprehensive". This book covers every aspect of discipling another Christian... from grounding them in the Word to dealing with resistance, to speaking the truth in love... it's all covered and more! If you can't find the book here as of yet, do contact the publisher directly. Just Google "touch outreach ministries" and their web site will pop right up and you can even download a sample chapter of the book!