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John W. Stewart • Envisioning the Congregation, Practicing the Gospel
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.
J.T. English • Deep Discipleship: How the Church Can Make Whole Disciples of Jesus
MasterLife discipleship materials
Jim Putman • Real-Life Discipleship: Building Churches That Make Disciples
Ministry Design Principle 11:
Kelly M. Kapic • A Field Guide to Becoming Whole: Principles for Poverty Alleviation Ministries
The established institutional church cannot now thrive on the good leadership it currently has.
Gil Rendle • Quietly Courageous
Everything in this book is animated by the conviction that the tradition of Christian orthodoxy is a gift, not a liability—a resource for the future, not an embarrassment that we should be trying to sweep under the carpet or tuck away in a back room like a crazy uncle.
James K. A. Smith • Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture
The purpose of the cultural analysis above is to show that when the good life is sped up to living multiple lifetimes (intragenerational), the decay rate is short and the present is compressed—which puts the denomination in crisis.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
http://guides.lib.umich.edu/content.php?pid=98218
Leslie F. Stebbins • Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth
What kind of community is necessary to deploy those disciples into the world?