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It is hard to deny that today’s world can seem apathetic toward Christians. Some may look down at their iPhones when we mention God, motion for the check when we bring up church, or casually change the subject when we talk about prayer. In a world full of people whose indifference is greater than their desire to know Christ, how can we dream of growing the church?
In Contagious Disciple Making, David Watson and Paul Watson map out a simple method that has sparked an explosion of homegrown churches in the United States and around the world. A companion to Cityteam's two previous books, Miraculous Movements and The Father Glorified, Contagious Disciple Making details the method used by Cityteam disciple-makers. This distinctive process focuses on equipping spiritual leaders in communities where churches are planted. Unlike many evangelism and church-growth products that focus on quick results, contagious disciple-making takes time to cultivate spiritual leadership, resulting in lasting disciple-making movements. Through Contagious Disciple Making readers will come to understand that a strong and equipped leader will continue to grow the church long after church planters move on to the next church.
Features include:
- Engagement tools for use in the field
- Practical techniques to equip others to make disciples
- Sales Rank: #29361 in Books
- Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
- Published on: 2014-12-23
- Released on: 2014-12-23
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.99" h x .63" w x 5.12" l, .45 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
About the Author
David Watson serves the global church through Cityteam Ministries as the VP for Global Disciple-Making. He is also actively involved in mentoring the next generation of Disciple-Making strategists. Since 1989, Watson has been involved with movements that have seen 100,000 churches started, and he has trained more than 30,000 leaders from 167 nations.
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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
Fuel for a Second Reformation
By Robby Butler
WARNING: If you want to stay comfortably involved in a local church without directly and personally engaging and impacting the lost, don't read this book.
NEARLY 500 years after Martin Luther launched the Protestant reformation, the Church which Jesus Christ promised to build is undergoing another historic reformation:
- from "gathering spectators" to "training and equipping disciples to reproduce," and
- from "expert-based ministry" to "movements that rely on the Holy Spirit's readiness to teach new and pre-believers from God's Word." (See my article "Introducing... '4X4 Movement Starts'" in the Mar/Apr 2014 issue of "Mission Frontiers.")
The pioneering work David and Paul report on in Contagious Disciple Making: Leading Others on a Journey of Discovery joins Steve Smith's T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution: The Story Behind the World's Fastest Growing Church Planting Movement and How it Can Happen in Your Community! as an ESSENTIAL REFERENCE for all those led to participate in this reformation.
One veteran minister to international students just wrote me regarding the power he has personally seen in the DISCOVERY study approach developed and popularized by David and Paul, and detailed in Chapter 15 of this book:
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For the past 18 months we have trained students to FACILITATE discovery Bible studies for seekers rather than "LEAD" traditional Bible studies. Instead of training our students as experts who impart knowledge, we now train them to ask simple questions which depend on the Holy Spirit's readiness to teach the non-believer from God's Word.
I have seen the fruit of this approach, and recommend it for any believer eager to get unsaved friends/relatives into God's Word. It is great to see seekers receive powerful insights from the Word WITHOUT being spoon-fed. And they will REMEMBER what they discover far longer than what I can tell them.
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Contagious Disciple Making: Leading Others on a Journey of Discovery covers the nuts, bolts, history and philosophy of what has now become a staple of every discipling movement I know. Before reading this book I didn't understand the gaps in my own understanding, and this left me still FRUSTRATED as a researcher and theoretician wanting to apply these things personally in my local context. I still struggle with busyness, but this book is helping me press ahead with greater confidence.
Contagious Disciple Making: Leading Others on a Journey of Discovery advances our understanding in many ways, perhaps most importantly pointing out that movements:
- DON'T result from getting a lot of people doing the same THING, but
- DO come from going deep with Jesus and a few others in ways that RAPIDLY reproduce.
As revealed in the Contents below, this book covers many essential topics.
For me personally the most significant portions of this book are:
- how to fuel a movement of PRAYER (as an essential foundation for a discipling movement), and
- how to develop an ENGAGEMENT strategy suitable for the local context.
( I hope soon to post a distillation of the chapter on prayer on the "Mission Frontiers blog.")
Contagious Disciple Making: Leading Others on a Journey of Discovery is helpfully broken into two sections:
- The PHILOSOPHY, or "Mind-set of a Disciple-Maker"
This will be especially useful for those new to the topic, but still full of valuable insights for those familiar with experience in multiplying disciples.
- The MECHANICS, or "Practices of a Disciple-Maker."
This is especially helpful for those already engaging in reproducing discipleship to refine their efforts to overcome obstacles and experience more fruit.
Here is a slight condensation of the table of contents:
PART 1: THE MIND-SET OF A DISCIPLE-MAKER
- Disciple-Makers Embrace Lessons Taught by Failure
- Disciple-Makers Deculturalize, Not Contextualize, the Gospel
- Disciple-Makers Plant the Gospel Rather than Reproduce Their Religion
- Disciple-Makers Recognize the Limitations of Branded Christianity
- Disciple-Makers Adapt the Strategy for Making Disciples to the Structure of the Community
- Disciple-Makers Limit the Negative Influence of their Culture and Religious Experience
- Disciple-Makers Understand the Importance of Obedience
- Disciple-Makers Make Disciples, Not Converts
- Disciple-Makers Practice the Priesthood of the Believer
PART 2: PRACTICES OF A DISCIPLE-MAKER
- Think Strategically and Tactically About Disciple-Making
- Be a Disciple Who Makes Disciples
- Model and Multiply Prayer
- Engage Lost People
- Seek Out Persons of Peace
- Initiate Discovery Groups
- Establish Churches
- Cultivate Leadership
- Practice Mentoring
Note: DON'T skip the Introduction. It tells David's compelling story of how God worked through David's utter FAILURE--seeing his early converts martyred (for using a style of evangelism too aggressive for the context) and then being kicked out of the country, and how this led to extended time with the Lord--seeking and receiving an approach that would bear multiplying fruit, FUELING movements on every inhabited continent.
About me: Over the past five years I have studied everything I could about reproducing discipleship (church-planting and discipling movements). I have met and attended training by Victor Choudhrie, Steve Smith and David and Paul Watson, and been involved with getting each of their materials available free on-line through "Mission Frontiers" magazine.
I was invited to offer an endorsement for an early version of this book, but did NOT receive a copy in exchange for this review.
In fact, as soon as Contagious Disciple Making: Leading Others on a Journey of Discovery was released I bought my own copy of the final version, and am now working on a deal to enable MISSIONARIES and MOBILIZERS to get discounted copies for their ministry networks. (If that's you, email me through the email on my "reviewer" link.)
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
A Challenge to Walk the Talk
By Robert C. Trube
The main idea of “contagious disciple making” is both simple to summarize and presents a real challenge to the contemporary church. It is to model and encourage trusting obedience to Christ as we discover his will in scripture, and to share these discoveries with others. This simple and compelling idea is a breath of fresh air for a Western church long on talk and short on obedience.
The authors (father and son) have been involved in church-planting movements throughout the world resulting in thousands of churches being planted under indigenous leadership in each country. This was not always the case and the first part of the book recounts the “re-thinking” that took place for them in moving from attempting to plant churches that conformed to Western ideals to launching Disciple-Making Movements. They argue, to begin with, that the task of church planters is not to contextualize the gospel, but to “deculturalize” it–to help people discover the message without Western cultural or denominational accretions.
What is crucial is simply building relationships within the appropriate structures, often family or tribal or village, where one can lead people in discovering for themselves from the Bible the basic message of the gospel, and even as they are learning it and beginning to act on it, to share it with others. Even before becoming disciples, proto-disciples are making disciples. From the start, and at every phase, an emphasis on obeying what one discovers, and inviting others to discover and obey is central.
The disciple-maker facilitates discovery and encourages obedience. This is so different from a teacher-student model that focuses around transfer of knowledge. Instead of creating perpetual learners, disciples quickly learn to become disciple-makers themselves and continue to perpetuate this with those they lead in discovery. The approach is one that respects and holds up the priesthood of all believers rather than a cult of experts.
The second part of the book explores practices around this core mindset that have proven important to these movements. Parts of this reiterate the focus on disciple-making from the first part and seem repetitive at times. But the authors also cover the importance of prayer movements, the nature of discovery groups, how churches are established out of these, and the development of leadership through mentoring that concentrates not simply on action but also character.
I found two sections particularly thought-provoking. One, concerning engaging lost people, talked about identifying the “silos” in which they live — the different affinity groups by family, village, or interest that bring people together. Rather than seek to “extract” people from this group, the Watsons advocate disciple-making within these groups so that families, villages or significant parts of affinity groups come to faith, rather than isolating a single convert from the former “silo” of which they were a part.
The other section concerned finding the “person of peace” in this silo, the person sufficiently spiritually receptive to host the disciple-maker as they form discovery groups. They recommend not attempting to plant in a particular “silo” without having the support of such a person.
There was much that I found to be refreshingly helpful. I work in university ministry that incorporates much of what these authors recommend, building groups around discovering what it means to follow Jesus in scripture, defining leadership in terms of those who are making disciples with others, doing all this in a context of prayer, and even thinking about the different “silos” on a university campus.
At the same time, I found myself wrestling with a tacit anti-intellectual, anti-theological emphasis that focused on the Bible and nothing but the Bible. I’ve seen too many unorthodox movements that are able to appeal to the Bible to say that relying on people’s personal discoveries from scripture to counter false teaching.
Also there is the question of Christian witness and discipleship in centers of learning and culture. While it is true that unlearned disciples who had been with Jesus confounded the religious elites of their day (which underscores the priority of trusting and obeying Christ!) I would contend for the value of coupling that devotion with the development of a Christian mind that is both theologically acute and culturally astute for engaging these culture-shapers. Just as a willingness to learn gaming is important to reaching a “gamer” silo (an example used by the authors), this intellectual work, which underlines the value of the theological enterprise and the intellectual work Christians are doing in many fields, should be encouraged for those engaging the intellectual world.
Yet the authors’ challenge to churches long on words and experiences and short on consistent obedience is one that needs to be heard. The authors contend that “A church that condones disobedience to God’s laws cannot stay a church. A church that does not practice grace and mercy cannot stay a church” (p. 159). Any of us seeking to plant or develop a ministry or church do well to heed this.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Contagious Disciplemaking
By Dr. David Steele
Contagious Disciple Making by David and Paul Watson is a practical and readable guide to obeying the Great Commission. The book is arranged in two parts, the mindset of a disciple-maker and the practices of a disciple-maker.
Part One: The Mindset of a Disciple-Maker
The first section describes some of the philosophic presuppositions that a person should embrace which will enable him to carry out Christ’s mandate to make disciples. The authors present eight principles to that end:
Disciple-makers embrace lessons taught by failure.
Disciple-makers deculturalize, not contextualize the gospel.
Disciple-makers plant the gospel rather than reproduce their religion.
Disciple-makers realize how hard completing the Great Commission will be for strategies and organizations built around branded Christianity.
Disciple-makers realize the structure of the community determines the strategy used to make disciples.
Disciple-makers realize their culture and religious experience can negatively influence their disciple-making unless they are very careful.
Disciple-makers understand the importance of obedience.
Disciple-makers make disciples, not converts.
Part one contains some important biblical principles that readers should read, digest, and reflect upon.
Two specific critiques are worth noting. First, there are some negative feelings toward denominations that I take exception with. The authors maintain that “the denominational education and indoctrination process make it impossible to fulfill the Great Commission.” The statement is a land mine which is never supported with facts.
Second, the chapter on contextualization is an overreaction and needs adjustment to be adjusted. In addition, the concern with “doctrine-centered” discipleship is disturbing and also needs to be adjusted.
Part Two: The Practices of a Disciple-Maker
The second half of the book is geared more to people in the trenches who are actually making disciples. The authors stress the need for prayer, engaging lost people, finding a person of peace, discovery groups, establishing churches, leadership, and mentoring.
While much of this material is valuable, the section on finding a person of peace is especially worth reading: “The Person of Peace is the one God has prepared to receive the Gospel into a community for the first time … This person may be from any walk of life, but he or she will welcome you, listen to your message, help you with your livelihood, and allow you to stay in his or her home and influence his or her family and the community for the sake of the Gospel.” Such an approach has been fruitful around the world and will serve disciple-makers well.
Contagious Disciple Making is a worthwhile read that has minor bumps along the way. It is a journey worth taking.
I received this book free from the publisher. I was not required to write a positive review.
3 stars
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