Multiply Small Groups and Mentor Strong Disciples
/Message from New Life Community Church in Rogers Park on the one year anniversary. A clear challenge is given that the future of the church would be known for small groups that multiply and mentor strong disciples.
Matthew 28:19-20
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
The First Steps Books mentioned in the message are cyclical in that they are designed to help train a new believer to become a disciple maker themselves. They were written by Pastor Mark Jobe for New Life Community Church in Chicago.
BLUE BOOK: Faith, Repentance and Baptism
GREEN BOOK: Six disciplines of a disciple seen in the early church as described in Acts 2:42-47. (The Word, Fellowship, Lord’s Supper, Prayer, Giving, & Praise.)
PURPOSE BOOK: The Disciple-Making Christian. (The Call to Make Disciples, True or False Conversion, First Steps of a Disciple, Mentoring a Young Believer, The Mentor as a Model, and the Disciple’s Perseverance.)
Towards the end of the Purple First Steps Book a dream for disciple-making is given:
“Remember that making disciples is God’s plan for reaching the world. If one evangelist won a person to Christ every day of the year for 32 years straight, he would end up reaching 11,680 people for Christ. On the other hand, if one disciple made just one other disciple a year who in turn would make just one other disciple a year, in 32 years the world’s population of over 5 billion would be reached for Christ.
Contrast of an evangelist who reaches one person a day compared with someone who disciples someone so well that a disciple making movement is created. (From First Steps Purple Book)
