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All three continents are leading the world in negative church growth. And of course I highlight the cell, the local church, and the church scattered in mission.

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I applaud your efforts to help pastors and churches see the need for a highly relational discipleship process that mirrors what Jesus did with his disciples, who became world changers. I have asked people I know why they attend one of the fastest growing churches in the North Texas region.

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The first reason he cites is that sometimes the Greek word disciple in the NT is used in a theological monograph Making Disciples: The Significance of Jesus' Educational actual process of reforming, or spiritual formation, involves both God's . relational service and compassionate ministry using one's gifts and abilities. Personal discipleship is about moving closer to what Jesus wants for us in and spiritual formation is the surrendering of all things to the love and will of God. of the church we attend and lead will shape the kind of follower of Jesus we grow. look at whole life discipleship of individuals, groups and whole communities.

One of the top reasons given is because the large crowd permits them to remain anonymous. A truly balanced church is one that is large enough to celebrate [ie; congregation] while remaining small enough to care [ie; cells]. Yes, everything revolves around relationships; everything! What that means is that they just attend church on a sunday, enjoy the sermons and recover from all the busyitis they have been suffering from in their previous church context.

Kind of a crazy situation I say. Anonyminity is often a cure for being burned out. Treating the symptom instead of dealing with the root cause of the problem which is being busy instead of relating. Then, about 3 months ago their mother started attending and became very active in both cell and celebration but her husband refused to join her and their children.

I as well as everyone who lives within ear-shout of their house know this man has major anger issues and recently his wife told us she had to cancel the Internet service because of his addiction to pornography. Then, she and her children did not attend celebration service last Sunday.

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I wanted to pull a Dr. This whole scenerio reeks of the anonymity that exists even in small traditional churches! Another fast growing mega-church I know of uses this approach but they make sure it is very clear what the next step are for the anonymous attender. And, by the way, everything this church does aims to get people into small groups. In talking to one of the leaders once, they compared first-time guests at a church service to walking onto a used car lot — your defenses go up the minute a person in a suit approaches you.

They have found that allowing anonymity has been very effective. In my own church, I hope people come to a service because they have been invited by a friend who already attends. But most of our first time guest show up because they moved into town and saw our website. Ben is missing the point, and maybe Rick is as well.

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I want to attract people to church through the cells. Then when the cells gather in a Congregational setting those people are already in relationship and heading towards accountability.

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Thanks, Iain for that clarification. My point was that many, many do not—and increasingly so. And yes, my blog was trying to contrast the New Testament way of making disciples with our western individualistic approach.

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Some teach that you first must have a crowd and then you try to get to the core. Thus, to plant a church you must have someone who can attract and sustain a crowd. I have problems with this. First, it rules out the vast majority of church planters because the majority simply lack the charisma to attract and hold large crowds. Second, it projects a distorted definition of a church an anonymous crowd.

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I'm referring here to the cell or a small group and those discipleship relationships that form from the small group. AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally. Reply 13 Like Follow 8 hour ago. Amazon Music Stream millions of songs. Different churches will prefer to talk about spiritual formation rather than discipleship and others will struggle with the topic of spiritual formation as a separate discipline from discipleship. And, by the way, everything this church does aims to get people into small groups. This book will encourage Christ-followers to allow God to mold them through the natural relationships of life:

I have found that ministry in the west is very hard. And, as with you and even more importantly, as with Jesus, I have no desire to spend my life simply entertaining crowds.

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