DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples (Exponential Series) - Softcover

Jim Putman, With Bob Harrington And Robert Coleman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0310492629 ISBN 13: 9780310492627

Publisher: Zondervan Main, 2013

Synopsis

In DiscipleShift, Jim Putman, Bobby Harrington, and Robert Coleman walk readers through five key "shifts" that any church can and must make to refocus on the biblical mission of making disciples. When church leaders consciously make discipleship their church's core mission, they attract the unchurched by empowering believers to become salt and light in their communities.

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About the Author:

Jim Putman is the founder and senior pastor of Real Life Ministries in Post Falls, Idaho. Real Life was launched with a commitment to discipleship and the model of discipleship Jesus practiced, which is called, "Relational Discipleship." Outreach Magazine continually lists Real Life Ministries among the top one hundred most influential churches in America. Jim is also the founding leader of the Relational Discipleship Network. Jim holds degrees from Boise State University and Boise Bible College. He is the author of three books: Church is a Team Sport, Real Life Discipleship, and Real Life Discipleship Workbook (with Avery Willis and others). Jim's passion is discipleship through small groups. He lives with his wife and three sons in scenic northern Idaho. Bobby Harrington is the co-founder of discipleship.org and the founding and lead pastor of Harpeth Christian Church (19 years). He is the chairman of the board for the Relational Discipleship Network and the co-author of DiscipleShift, Dedicated: Training Your Children to Trust and Follow Jesus, and Discipleship that Fits. He has been married to Cindy for over 35 years and they have two adult children who are disciples of Jesus. Dr. Robert Coleman is the Distinguished Senior Professor of Discipleship and Evangelism at Gordon-Conwell seminary and a prolific author, having written hundreds of articles and twenty-one books, including The Master Plan of Evangelism, which has sold multiple million copies and is the book for which he is best known. He directed the School of World Mission and Evangelism at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School for eighteen years and currently serves on the Mission America Facilitation Committee and several international mission boards and is the president of Christian Outreach. From 1989-2001, he led the Institute of Evangelism in the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College and served as Dean of the Billy Graham International Schools of Evangelism. He is also a founding member of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelism and a past president of the Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education. His personal interests include spending time with his family, including his children and grandchildren, and keeping in touch with those he has discipled.

About this edition

• Publisher: Zondervan Main
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0310492629
• ISBN 13: 9780310492627
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240