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Too many of today s pastors and leaders mistakenly think that
thriving programs, lively worship services, and relevant preaching
are adequate for developing people into the spiritual dynamos God
desires. In many churches, the primary objective of the
church---discipleship of people into mature followers of
Jesus---has been outsourced to programs and large-scale efforts to
train and teach. But is that happening? Are people growing in
spiritual depth and missional determination? Twenty-five years ago,
the leaders of Randy Pope s rapidly growing church took serious
stock of their own spiritual development and realized all of them
had benefitted from a personal discipleship relationship that had
helped them grow in their faith and discover where God was calling
them to service. As a church, they decided to make personal
discipleship their do-or-die aim: applying one person s real life
to another s to accomplish something far bigger than that single
life. Perimeter calls their approach life-on-life missional
discipleship and Insourcing tells their story. Randy Pope writes
for church leaders who recognize the value of discipleship and need
practical ideas for reorienting church ministries around personal
discipleship. Readers will be encouraged that a wide scale personal
discipleship program is attainable for any church."
There's a growing desire among believers to reach beyond the walls
of their churches to impact communities for God. But when the
average church size hovers around 150 members and the problems of
even midsized cities seem insurmountable, how can we hope to make a
difference?
"A New Kind of Big" tells the inspiring story of how Perimeter
Church in suburban Atlanta started a partnership called Unite with
other area churches in order to increase its reach in a community
that desperately needed God's light and aid. This partnership has
grown to a network of nearly 150 churches that are bringing kingdom
transformation to Atlanta. For instance, on just one weekend in
2007, 6,000 volunteers from over 60 churches in metro Atlanta
gathered to work on 250 service projects inside the ten-mile radius
around Perimeter Church. Thirty welcome baskets were delivered to
refugees, a dozen homes were repaired, a thousand Bibles were given
away, 750 "encourage a teacher" gift bags were distributed. And
that's not all: volunteers orchestrated 20 block parties in
low-income apartment communities and 65 neighborhood food drives
that collected 25,000 pounds of food.
Chip Sweney shows Christian leaders how they too can discover the
power of this "new kind of big" to pool their resources, energy,
and time to minister to their communities, no matter how long or
short their membership rolls.
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