by Jim Putman: A good disciple maker or leader does not allow his lesson or training to be limited  to a once a week study or a classroom. He does not need to attempt to execute the perfect lesson plan by trying to control every possible distraction. Jesus was flexible – Jesus met people where they were, on their level, without sacrificing His intention to make disciples.

People grow at different rates. An effective disciple maker will adjust his approach according to the growth stage of the person they are discipling. This is one of the reasons it is ineffective to try and make disciples of a large group of people with a lecture style format. You need to be in the life of your disciple, walking side by side through different circumstances and events together in order to get a complete picture of where they are spiritually.

Jim Putman, author of this blog, is writing a new book called The Death of Discipleship about the dynamics of pride and humility in the discipleship process. Download the free primer for this book here.

An effective disciple maker knows how to take discipleship from theory and put it into practice with someone. To go from the classroom to the living room. When disciple making is reduced to a program, people often fail to connect it to a lifestyle.

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Written by Jim Putman

This was originally posted on Jim Putman’s blog here. Used with permission.
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by Bobby Harrington: At Discipleship·org, our discipleship-first mantra views life through the lens of being disciples who make disciples. To be most fully alive is to walk with Jesus, live out the priorities we find in his life. It is loving people as Jesus loved people. But let’s not study about it and talk about it too much.

That does not make it real—we must live it out!

The single most important indicator that you understand the importance of discipleship is the evidence of your own life, which is your personal “scorecard” (if I may call it that). By that, I mean the names and faces of those people that you are discipling and the names and faces of the disciple makers whom you raised up who are now discipling others.

Can you list their names? Can you see their faces?

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