Once we look inward and recognize our integral role in discipleship, the next step calls for us to look outward – to our church and our community. We should want ours to be a church of disciples that creates more disciples; we should want our church to be a disciple-multiplying church.
Alex Absalom and Greg Nettle’s eBook, Disciples Who Make Disciples: Turning Your Church Into a Multiplying Movement, explains that for our churches to truly experience the kind of transformation God desires, we need to adopt a new model of discipleship.
Their “new model” outlines the following five steps for becoming a disciple-multiplying church:
Step 1: From Decisions to Disciples
“The Biblical concept of discipleship is one that is built around imitation, of person-to-person contagion, which in turn creates multiple opportunities for people to be brought into a greater knowledge of the truth,” with a focus on moving church members from a spirit of “information” to one of “imitation.”
