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6/3/2025

Re-Disciple: Creating a Culture and Practice of Disciple-MakinG

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Jesus gave the Church a clear and compelling mission: “Go and make disciples of all nations… teaching them to obey everything I have commanded” (Matthew 28:19-20). And yet, according to discipleship.org, in the U.S. today, less than 5% of churches report having a culture of disciple-making. This is more than a leadership challenge. It’s a crisis of mission, vision, and obedience.

The Problem: We’ve Drifted from the Mission
Many churches are busy with services, programs, and Bible studies, but activity isn’t the same as transformation. People can attend for years without ever being equipped to make disciples. Information alone doesn’t change lives. Jesus modeled a relational, intentional approach based on hearing, obeying, and sharing. He didn’t build a crowd; He formed disciples who made disciples.

What’s Gone Wrong?
Performance Has Replaced Presence
Churches have become mostly about the weekend, where pastors become the performers and the people become the spectators. We must return to Jesus-style disciple-making, where people are equipped, empowered, and sent.


We’ve Created Consumers, Not Missionaries
Most Christians enjoy worship and teaching but never see themselves as everyday missionaries created to enter the harvest, plant the gospel, and make disciples where they live, work, play, and study.

We’re Using the Wrong Scorecard
We often measure our success as churches based on worship attendance and financial contributions. What if we developed a Great Commission Scorecard with an endgame of gospel saturation? What if we redesigned our scorecard to include: the quality of disciples-made, disciple makers, and ordinary people living sent as missionaries?

We’ve Made Disciple-Making a Staff Role
Pastors and staff are considered disciple-makers in many of our churches, and the people are the disciples. What if we began to see the role of disciple-maker as every person’s calling and responsibility?

The Good News: There’s a Way Forward
Disciple-making movements (DMMs) flourish worldwide in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. They’re built around simple, reproducible practices fueled by obedience, prayer, and ordinary people. It’s time we learn from these global movements and reimagine the church around Jesus’ way of making disciples.

Introducing: The Re-Disciple Cohort
A 6-Month Coaching Experience for Church Leaders Who Are Ready to Shift from Programs to Disciple-Making. This isn’t another ministry program. It’s a catalytic process designed to help your church.

Our Deliverables:
- Assess your disciple-making culture
- Practice Jesus-Style Disciple-Making
- Build your own Disciple-Maker’s Pathway
-Align your Culture around Disciple-Making
- Develop your Disciple-Making Plan

Each month includes:
- 90-minute live cohort session
- Actionable frameworks, tools, and coaching
- Real-time implementation with peer support
- Stories from leaders who are making the shift

Is This for You?
This cohort is for pastors, planters, and leaders who are:

-Discontent with church-as-usual
-Hungry to see real transformation
-Ready to trade performance for presence
-Willing to lead their church into a new future

Ready to Re-Disciple Your Church?
The Church doesn’t need more programs, it needs a movement. If we don’t re-disciple the Church, we’ll continue to drift. But if we do, we might witness a fresh move of God in our generation.

Let’s return to Jesus-style disciple-making's simplicity, beauty, and power. For more information or to sign up for the next Re-Disciple Cohort HERE.

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    David Putman is the founder of Planting the Gospel and a Senior Lead Navigator with Auxano the category leader in vision clarity.  When David isn't writing or consulting he enjoys staying fit and competing at Crossfit.  

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