Deep Discipleship: How the Church Can Make Whole Disciples of Jesus

3. People are leaving the church, not because we have asked too much of them but because we have not asked enough of them. We are giving people a shallow and generic spirituality when we need to give them distinctive Christianity.

We have lowered the bar and settled for a lowest-common-denominator discipleship.

Without the proper diagnosis and treatment plan, we will do more harm than good.

The local church has a discipleship disease.

But before we turn to the what of deep discipleship, we must be reminded about why deep discipleship matters.

The final question is about scalability, sustainability, and strategy. Instead of asking the question, “Can my church do this?,” I want to ask the better question, “Why would my church not do this?”

Discipleship never terminates with a disciple; all disciples are called to go make more disciples.

I want to ask the better question, “Where do all disciples go?”

Local churches need to think through how they can develop a philosophy of ministry that will do just that. Depth with God is the way of holistic discipleship.