The Discipleship Malaise: Getting to the Root Causes
By Jay Lorenzen on Sep 11, 2007 in Leadership of Movements, Marks of a Movement, Movement Building
Jesus was clear: “Go and make disciples…” From the Scriptures, it’s also clear that disciples are “self-initiating, reproducing, fully devoted followers of Christ.”
Why then is there such a low level of discipleship in churches and ministries today? If “transforming discipleship and multiplying leadership” are clear marks of culture-changing movements, it’s no surprise that such movements will not take place apart from true discipleship and intentional leadership development.
Greg Odgen, in his book, Transforming Discipleship suggests eight causes for why we see so little true discipleship. Use these causes to evaluate your own efforts at building “movements of multiplying disciples.”
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