Comments on: Life on Life Discipleship

By: John Purcell

John Purcell — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:59:58 +0000

I just returned from Spain where I had the opportunity to visit with a missions team there. Their vision was to create a church planting movement in their city and eventually the country. What we discussed turned out to be very similar to my discussions with churches in the US. We must begin by loving and serving the people that God puts around us. We share the Good News with them in a relational, conversational way over time. Then we have to disciple them in an intentional way, as I am describing in the article. And the key here is that we have to be reproducing ourselves so that they then disciple others; i.e. this must be a process that GROWS ORGANICALLY if we want to impact a men’s ministry, a church, a city, a region, or the world. Then we continue to invest in them as leaders (see my article on Leadership Coaching) as they disciple others and some eventually do plant churches that have this discipleship as a core competence, as well!
So the core of this whole process has to be life on life missional discipleship.

By: barnman49

barnman49 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:16:58 +0000

Your speaking my language. Out of curiosity, I have searched mens ministries on church websites.
It appears that except for a select few, mens minsitries are weak, dormant or even non existent. I believe this is due to a lack of discipleship between men. Since becoming a christian I have often wondered about this apparent deficiency within many churches. Most men have a wider sphere of infuence than they realize. Spiritually mature men can have an impact on the world around them. As men we can support each other in furthering the Kingdom of God. One on one relationships between men offers the opportunity to develop meaningful relationships that serve as fertile ground for spiritual growth.
I am an aspiring life coach in training. I believe that God is calling me to coach primarily men. Men who have a desire to disciple other men as brothers in Christ. I believe God is calling me to cause and I am excited about the idea of participating in what God wants to do in the lives of christian men.