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| Transforming Discipleship: Making Disciples a Few at a Time | 
 enlarge | Author: Greg Ogden
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (9 reviews)
Sales Rank: 13602
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 180
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0830823883
Dewey Decimal Number: 253
EAN: 9780830823888
ASIN: 0830823883
Publication Date: May 2003
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Product Description
Many churchgoers complain that their churches lack a coherent plan for discipleship and spiritual growth. In turn, many church leaders lament their lack of resources to build and manage effective programs to help people become fully devoted followers of Christ. In Transforming Discipleship Greg Odgen introduces his vision for discipleship, emphasizing that solutions will not be found in large-scale, finely-tuned, resource-heavy programs.Instead, Ogden recovers Jesus' method of accomplishing life change by investing in just a few people at a time. And he shows how discipleship can become a self-replicating process with ongoing impact from generation to generation.Biblical, practical and tremendously effective, Transforming Discipleship provides the insights and philosophy of ministry behind Ogden's earlier work, Discipleship Essentials. Together, these ground-breaking books have the potential to transform how your church transforms the lives of its people.
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One of the best! March 16, 2008
This is an important, high quality, recent work on disciple making from a long-time practitioner who has served as a pastor and seminary teacher. Ogden surveys the low condition of discipleship in the modern church before analyzing Jesus' and Paul's approaches to making disciples. His analysis is rich in principles and useful insights. Then he provides a section on practical strategy for making disciples in the modern church. He correctly stresses the relational dimension of disciple making, and clearly explains why programs cannot deliver the real life transformation needed. Ogden advances a method based on triads, where three meet together. We have also seen good results with this approach, although we do okay with two-person meetings as well.
Ogden includes a wonderful section on building slowly and solidly (127,128). I think leaders and pastors should all read this book, or anyone who wants to make a lasting difference for Christ.
-Dennis McCallum, author Organic Disciplemaking: How to promote Christian leadership development through personal relationships, biblical discipleship, mentoring, and Christian community
Review of "Transforming Discipleship" by Ogden September 7, 2007
This is one of those books you will wish you had read years before. After discussing what discipleship is (helping people to live like Jesus), Ogden gives a detailed overview of the models Jesus and Paul used to disciple people. Jesus' model, very simply, was first to be an example to people. Secondly he would teach them to serve, teach and lead. Thirdly, Jesus became a coach, helping his disciples to actually step out and actively serve. Finally, Jesus delegated all responsibility to the Apostles to go out and carry on the work of the kingdom. This model is one that any servant of Christ today can use to duplicate his/her own faith and ministry in another willing person.
The following statement from the book encapsulates the goal of duplication and discipleship for all Christian leaders : "The tragedy is that most Christian leaders have placed almost no priority on transitional leadership. It is generally fair to say that the effectiveness of one's ministry is to be measured by how well it flourishes after one's departure." (P.96)
Public teaching and preaching will always have its place. But nothing can replace one-on-one teaching, modeling and training. I highly recommend this book.
Excellent Resource September 5, 2007
This book helped us solve the discipleship dilemma we had in our church. Now our small groups can focus on family and evangelism, while members get spiritually fed through their triad group. It's just a tool but a great one!
A fantastic book that gets to the heart of the issue. July 9, 2007
I found this book to be very timely in my own life. I have been involved in ministry for over 10 years. After the 10 years I found that I was involved in mostly program based ministry that showed almost no transformation in the lives of the believers I worked with. God began to do a work in my heart to search out what discipleship really is. After 5 months of personal study and many revelations, I read this book which was an absolute confirmation of what God was already doing in my heart.
I found the book to be right on and a wonderful read.
After reading the book, I bought 5 more copies to give to my small group and a few key pastors that I have relationships with.
This book is a must read, it not only has the theology but the real world application t back it up.
I can't recommend this book highly enough. I'm now praying about who I am going to invite into my first discipleship group.
 Transforming Discipleship May 13, 2007
A simple idea, but one seldom implemented. Can help any of us consider what are we really doing. Are we caught up in the tyranny of the urgent? Are we focusing on what is really crucial. The book points out how all of us need truth, intimacy and accountability. It is the latter that I see most lacking in in our Christian life and what can be the antidote to many falling from "grace".
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