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Discipleship workshop
This week I’ll be gathering with a group of more than 200 pastors who are all doing church “differently” that we’ve seen church traditionally done in the Western, post-Christian context we find ourselves. It’s one of my favorite events, called The Ecclesia National Gathering. And if you’d like, you can follow the live blog and twitter feed.
While there, I’ll be leading a couple of sessions on a workshop on discipleship. As I’ve said before, I don’t believe we have a missional or leadership problem in the United States. We have a discipleship problem. If you make disciples the way Jesus and other early church leaders did, you’ll get the missional thing…and the future of the Western church.
This is the description of the workshop:
Last year at the ENG, Dallas Willard commented that every church needs to be able to answer two questions: 1) What is our plan for making disciples? 2) Does our plan work? Sadly, while most of our churches have thought out plans on how to make disciples, we are increasingly seeing that these plans aren’t really making missional disciples. However, in the past few years at the ENG we’ve had three speakers (Mike Breen and Bob and Mary Hopkins) who created a discipleship vehicle called Huddle that was developed over the last 20 years in post-Christian Europe. While a Huddle is similar in size to a traditional Small Group, they are quite different in how they exist, function and are led. After hearing about it, several Ecclesia members have started to use Huddles in their own communities and the results have been extraordinarily promising: They seem to be producing and multiplying missional disciples whose lives look increasingly like the disciples we see in scripture. This track will explore the phenomenon of Huddle, it’s scriptural, historical and sociological basis, as well as answering the question, Why do Huddles work?
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Praise God! Just prayed for you & your family. Hope to get the mp3. : )
I’m not sure if we’ll have an mp3 of this or not, but I should have the Huddle Training sessions available in the next 2 weeks…which includes about 10 sessions and 7 hours of audio.
Looking forward to it, bro!
Sounds like an interesting workshop, as does the national gathering.
After only attending the worship gathering at Eikon the other week my wife and I are definitely interested in learning more about how you guys are doing church “differently”.