PowerPoint for NAPCE Presentation 10/19/2012

e-Connect from BMAT

I like this E-Connect.

 

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/eConnect-for-Pastors-and-Church-Leaders.html?soid=1101230640346&aid=Ldx74t1y8fA

East Texans Pen Book On Seminary Methods

East Texans Pen Book On Seminary Methods

The Tyler newspaper did this article about the DiscipleWay book.

DiscipleWay page at DiscipleGuide.org

DiscipleGuide Church Resources has a DiscipleWay page!



http://www.discipleguide.org/DiscipleWay

Kindle Edition of DiscipleWay Book is here!

 Following the Model of Christ by Making Disciple Makers is now available for download in its Kindle format. 



http://www.amazon.com/Following-Christ-Disciple-DiscipleWay-ebook/dp/B0088QYZTA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338916098&sr=8-1

Approaches to Disciple-Making

The Church Health Team of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina has proposed five possible approaches to disciple-making in a local church. According to this paradigm, discipleship can be platform-oriented, program-oriented, process-oriented, person-oriented, and proficiency-oriented. A local church can choose to implement any or all of the approaches.

In their Disciple Makers Manual[i], the Church Health Team outlines the audience, benefits, drawbacks, and how to go the next level for each the approaches. The next level of the fifth approach, proficiency, is described in the following manner: “Next level is about reproduction and multiplication through mentoring and discipling others and other churches and organizations. Impacting others is the next level.”  This “next level” is the core of DiscipleWay.

DiscipleWay will supplement any of these approaches to discipleship,  however, DiscipleWay is intended to make disciple-makers out of faithful believers. Any and all of the approaches should be used by a church to make faithful disciples. It is necessary to point out that, DiscipleWay is not designed to be used in any of the approaches described.

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[i]Baptist State Convention of North Carolina • Milton A. Hollifield, Jr., Executive Director-Treasurer205 Convention Drive • Cary, NC 27511 • (919) 467-5100 • (800) 395-5102 • www.ncbaptist.orgCreated by the Church Health Team

Watch one, Do one, TEACH ONE

   Participants should also be equipped to teach those disciplines to other believers. Teaching requires a person to interact with what is being taught and ensures the teacher learns as much or more than the student. Disciples are challenged with opportunities to teach what they have learned throughout the DiscipleWay curriculum. The final discipline, Leadership, is intended to guide the disciple in finding someone to disciple and providing support and supervision. The goal of DiscipleWay is to make disciples who go out and make disciples, who go out and make disciples. Student teaching is built into the DiscipleWay method. Beginning with the first disciple of Bible Study, disciples are required to teach elements of the discipline to someone else. Teaching inductive Bible study, praying with prayer partners, leading in family worship, and finding service projects are a few examples of imbedded teaching assignments throughout the DiscipleWay curriculum. The final discipline, Leadership, is all about guiding the disciple as he/she finds someone to lead through DiscipleWay and providing some supervision and support during the early stages.

Watch one, DO ONE, Teach one

      As a result of participating in the DiscipleWay training experience, believers should be able to incorporate key spiritual disciplines into their own lives independently of other believers or teachers. Right thinking does not always result in right acting. Simply filling a disciple’s head with more information and knowledge by means of conferences, workshops, sermons, Sunday school classes, books, and media presentations will not necessarily make them practice what they learn. Jesus provided the knowledge necessary for his disciples, but it was most often framed within an active learning experience (Maricle, 2007; Willard 2006). Spiritual growth rarely occurs in the context of taking in more information, but that is too often our only mode of spiritual formation. For every DiscipleWay discipline studied, there is practical application. After learning and applying, disciples will be equipped to continue their journey toward spiritual maturity. More importantly, they will be disciple makers themselves.

Watch one, Do one, Teach one!

If you ask any medical professional about this instructional methodology, there will be a knowing smile. The model has been around for thousands of years as the Hippocratic apprenticeship approach. Though attributed to various medical professionals, it is hard to ascertain exactly when and where the phraseology of “watch one, do one, teach one,” was attached. Now the method is commonly applied to everything from business communication to law enforcement training.

Watch One

As a result of participating in the DiscipleWay training experience believers should understand the biblical foundations of discipleship and spiritual disciplines. This begins by seeing an appropriate model. Therefore, the trainer will model his or her experience of God’s grace through the discipleship process. This was part of the ministry of Jesus as well as early rabbis and teachers. Their disciples would live with them and watch them closely. Paul followed the example of Jesus as he instructed believers to follow him in 1 Corinthians 11:1 "Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ."

Being a DiscipleWay trainer requires a time commitment, a close relationship, and a commitment to be transparent with trainees. Progressing through the study of spiritual disciplines provides structure and direction for intentional modelling. Unintentional modelling and recognition of teachable moments may also be maximized.

Making Disciple Makers

"The goal of DiscipleWay is to make disciples who go out and make disciples, who go out and make disciples." This point cannot be emphasized too much. Most discipleship programs, curriculum, etc. have the focus of making disciples. Granted, most then propose that the disciples should then make disciples themselves. It is assumed they will make disciples the way they were taught.

Instead of tacking the admonition to be a disciple-maker at the end, DiscipleWay has it at the beginning. "Beginning with the first disciple of Bible Study, disciples are required to teach elements of the discipline to someone else.  Teaching inductive Bible study, praying with prayer partners, leading in family worship, and finding service projects are a few examples of imbedded teaching assignments throughout the DiscipleWay curriculum. The final discipline, Leadership, is all about guiding the disciple as he/she finds someone to lead through DiscipleWay and providing some supervision and support during the early stages."

DiscipleWay Book launch at the BMAA in Jackson, MS.

DiscipleWay display at the BMA National Meeting.

This is the new DiscipleWay book that I edited and contributed several chapters.

Philip Attebery and Steve Crawley co-authored the book with me.

This book is so new that it is currently only available by contacting Disciple Guide Church Resources (www.discipleguide.com) and asking for it. It will soon be placed in their catalog and made more widely available. It is also scheduled to be converted into E-book format in the near future.

If you want a copy, it costs 9.95 (plus tax, shipping).

DiscipleWay top 10

In case someone reading this blog is unfamiliar with DiscipleWay, here is a "top 10" list I gave to a conference of Christian Education professors last October.

DiscipleWay Top 10

1. DiscipleWay is biblically based. It is initiated from the Great Commission.

2. The 7 Disciplines of DiscipleWay’s curriculum are based solely on biblical mandates of spiritual disciplines resulting in spiritual formation.

Bible Study (2 Tim. 2:15)

Prayer (1 Thess. 5:17)

Worship (Psalm 95:6-7)

Giving (Acts 20:35)

Witnessing (Matt. 28:19)

Serving (John 13)

Leading (Reproducing) (2 Tim. 2:2)

The first discipline is Bible study. Bible study is the key foundation for all spiritual growth. Therefore, inductive Bible study is part of every lesson of every discipline. Disciples are challenged with opportunities to teach what they have learned throughout the DiscipleWay curriculum. The final discipline, Leadership, is intended to guide the disciple in finding someone to disciple and providing support and supervision. The goal of DiscipleWay is to make disciples who go out and make disciples, who go out and make disciples.

3. DiscipleWay research conducted by a Rainer Research survey of 383 BMA churches

found that “the BMAA knows what discipleship is; they’re just not doing it.”

4. DiscipleWay is for faithful believers as illustrated in 2 Timothy 2:1-7.

5. DiscipleWay’s philosophy is that it is better to make a disciple maker than to

make a disciple.

6. DiscipleWay emphasizes experiential/active learning with each spiritual discipline.

7. DiscipleWay curriculum is a tool. Training is required before purchase to emphasize

the fact that tools do not make disciples, the Lord uses people to make disciples. The

tool gives structure and helps keep doctrine sound.

8. DiscipleWay is designed for one disciple maker with one to three disciples.

9. DiscipleWay seeks to train disciple makers who are able to teach others how to

perform key disciplines independent of a teacher and then teach someone else.

10. DiscipleWay has gotten positive feedback from pilot churches.

Focus on DiscipleWay

DiscipleWay is different. It is not another event, program, or curriculum. It is a person-oriented process of making disciple makers.

The Bible is our foundation, Jesus is our example, and discipline is our course.

You are welcome to use this medium for questions and comments about DiscipleWay.

If you attend the BMAA National Meeting in Jackson, MS, be sure to stop by the DiscipleWay table to meet me and talk about making disciple makers.