Repairing the Missional Breach: Why the Church Isn’t Making Disciples and How We Can Fix It
Ebook
Making disciples is the primary calling of the church; however, in the past decades of American evangelicalism, there has been a breach of Christ's Great Commission (as found in Matt 28:19-20). Much of this failure can be attributed to the doctrine and practice within three modern church movements. The book offers a history and critique of modern American evangelical church movements, including the Church Growth, Emergent Church, and Missional Church movements. Each of these movements did not result in disciple making multiplication. In this book, you will find an analysis of disciple making in these movements as compared to the methods and model of Jesus. Informed by these critiques, formative ministry adjustments are presented as a faithful path for future missional approaches.
“Kevin Blackwell reminds us that making disciples is often complicated and messy. His passion for helping the church make disciples is evident in Repairing the Missional Breach. Through careful analysis and research, Blackwell lays out the strengths and weaknesses of modern church movements that have influenced American churches. His final chapter, “Toward a Faithful Missional Future: Ministry Shifts Needed to Repair the Breach” provides insight into how we move forward with church disciple-making practices that will equip the church to make disciples of future generations.”
—John McClendon, executive director, Disciple Leaders Network
- Title: Repairing the Missional Breach: Why the Church Isn’t Making Disciples and How We Can Fix It
- Authors: J. D. Payne, Kevin Blackwell
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666787269, 9781666787245, 1666787248, 9781666787252, 1666787256, 1666787264
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666787269
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-17T20:35:32Z
Kevin Blackwell is the assistant to the president for church relations and director of the Ministry Training Institute at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the co-author of Cultivate Disciplemaking: Growing Disciples Who Make Disciples (2023). He received a BA from Samford University, an MDiv and DMin from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and a PhD and MTh from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is married with four children and lives in Alabama.