Discipleship vs. Disciplemaking
Discipleship is helping a believer mature. But disciplemaking is much bigger. It involves winning the lost for Christ, building believers up, equipping workers to do ministry, and multiplying proven leaders. Many ministries do some form of discipleship, but we focus on disciplemaking, which has a much larger scope. That has made all the difference.
Jesus’ Methodology
By studying the life of Christ chronologically using a Harmony of the Gospels (Robert Thomas and Thomas Gundry) you can see that Jesus had a ministry strategy. His work can be divided into 5 distinct phases. And for each phase, he had very different priorities. Taken together, this is a model for doing ministry in a way that doesn’t just produce converts or disciples, it launches disciplemaking movements.
One Indian theologian wrote this: “The Harmony of the Gospels is a huge scholarly work. This has been simplified for education in the church, and several study materials have been derived from it. Kingdom Rain has converted this material into a 15-day training program covering the four gospels, requiring just three days for each phase of Christ’s ministry.”
Our strategy is three-fold:
We equip leaders on location over a two-year period, taking them phase-by-phase through the process Jesus modeled for building a disciplemaking movement.
We surface key national leaders and encourage and support them to implement Jesus’ disciplemaking strategy.
Our plan is NOT to create a cohort of leaders that depend on us indefinitely for resources and support. Instead, we challenge them to own, lead, and sustain the movement themselves.