Small-Batch Disciplemaking: A Rhythm for Training the Few to Reach the Many
Ebook
Recover Jesus' strategy of training the few to reach the many.
What if rather than funneling people through church programs, you invested in their growth? Would this kind of intentional investment help you discover a new kind of Christian purpose and spiritual legacy? And, what if you already have what it takes to develop your spiritual growth as a disciple while apprenticing others?
As Christians, we should all participate in spiritual leadership by seeking to make spiritual investment in the lives closest to us. It’s time for us to move away from institutionalized, Sunday morning faith and toward a more relationally driven, culturally friendly, and doable approach to disciple-making. What you will discover is how discipleship is not about learning more but learning to give away what you already have in Christ.
Small-Batch Disciplemaking by David Sunde is a compelling field guide for Christians looking to make a difference in the world by sharing their faith. With practical and empowering strategies for navigating the intimidating Biblical mandate of making disciples, this book equips and empowers readers to
- Grow in faith in order to give faith away
- Learn intentional spiritual practices like hospitality, compassion, and gratitude
- Confidently go out and make a difference in the world
Get ready for a deeply pragmatic, culturally informed disciple-making faith.
In a world full of contended ideas and untested ones, David Sunde has practiced the rhythms he has thoughtfully articulated in Small-Batch Disciplemaking. Not only have I watched him practice it around me, but I am also a product of it personally. The investments of time and intention have affected my life significantly. It has changed the way I look at my personal life, professional life, married life, and parenting. Each rhythm invites God into those areas of your life in renewed ways. Discipleship was intended to influence every part of our lives, not just our Sunday mornings. Small-Batch Disciplemaking gives you the chance to be discipled in a way that affects every part of your life.
We crave change! Not just theoretical change but real, practical, life-altering change. There is no more powerful way to awaken change within the church, within our souls, and within our neighborhoods than the work of apprenticeship. Dave Sunde has written a beautifully eloquent but practical primer on how to apprentice ordinary Christians to become change agents in the world. Small-Batch Disciplemaking is bathed in the genuine relational and spiritual mechanics of how to pass on the life of Christ to another. Get this resource in your hands and in your heart—it can create ripple effects that will change everything!
In this book, Dave Sunde puts his finger on what makes faith work (and what is missing in so many churches and ministries). Far too often, we’ve made Christianity a cognitive experience but not a life experience. We don’t go deep because we don’t practice. We believe but we don’t apprentice. Be warned: If you heed the big ideas in this book, you will be transformed. I highly recommend it.
Want to grow in your faith? Want to help others do the same but don’t know where to start? Then Small-Batch Disciplemaking is just what you need! I’ve known David Sunde for over twenty-five years, and I’m thrilled he is finally sharing his insights and experiences with the world! This field guide will be a resource you look to again and again as you journey with Jesus and help others do the same.
Sunde’s book is a breath of fresh air. It walks alongside us, showing us a better way. The Western church is obsessed with numbers and programs, but Dave helps us see the importance of really doing life together. I mean, really. No performance. No lights. No show. Just simply what it looks like to follow Jesus together. Dave is the right person to write this book as it is the life he leads, the way he is. I highly recommend this book and the helpful brilliance in its pages.
Small-Batch Disciplemaking calls us to reground ourselves in the ancient tenets of our faith, not in the sense of abstract theology but in core practices of transformational living. This writing is infused with the wisdom hard-won from his years of experience as a follower of Jesus and as a guide to many seeking to do the same. This book is a much-needed practical guide and theology of the church reimagined around the core practices of our faith. If you hunger for more in your spiritual life, this is a must-read.
Small-Batch Disciplemaking is a fresh and much-needed contribution to the practice of discipleship. This is a field manual that comes from David’s effective ministry of discipling others. I’ve known David for many years. Discipleship is his passion, and this book is his legacy. After fifty plus years of leading churches, my assessment is that life-changing discipleship is the church’s greatest weakness. We need this book!
Small-Batch Disciplemaking serves the church a large portion of wisdom that lays down a compelling baseline for a healthier twenty-first-century church. Dave Sunde identifies seven transferable rhythms that empower every Christian to fulfill their God-given responsibility: Make disciples!
- Title: Small-Batch Disciplemaking: A Rhythm for Training the Few to Reach the Many
- Authors: David Sunde, Nancy Ortberg
- Publisher: NavPress
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781641588195, 9781641588133, 1641588136, 1641588195
- Resource ID: LLS:9781641588195
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-02-01T01:41:30Z