Centering Discipleship, E. K. Strawser
Centering Discipleship, E. K. Strawser
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Centering Discipleship
A Pathway for Multiplying Spectators into Mature Disciples

Author: E. K. Strawser

Narrator: E. K. Strawser

Unabridged: 6 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/25/2023


Synopsis

Discipleship without mission is discipleship without Christ.

The church often lacks maturity and missional impact because discipleship is at its periphery. In order to get discipleship to the center, leaders need a locally rooted, culturally contextual discipleship pathway to tether disciples who are disciplemakers to the neighborhood or network around them.

Pastor and discipler E. K. Strawser shows that when discipleship becomes central to your leadership and community, then discipleship becomes central to congregational mission and cultural renewal. Centering Discipleship is a gutsy practice-based guidebook for leaders who are doing the hard work of reimagining and restructuring their churches and communities to turn spectators into missional, mature followers of Jesus.

About E. K. Strawser

E. K. Strawser is the covocational lead pastor of Ma Ke Alo o (which means "presence" in Hawaiian), nondenominational missional communities multiplying in Honolulu, Hawaii; a community physician at Ke Ola Pono; and an executive leader at the V3 Movement, the church planting arm of the Baptist General Association of Virginia. Prior to transitioning to Hawaii, she served as adjunct professor of medicine at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and of African studies at her alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania (where she and her husband served with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship), after finishing her Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Dar es Salaam. She and Steve have three seriously amazing children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Conrade

What is the difference between a regular Church and a Discipleship-Making Church? Of course, most churches will claim to be doing some form of discipleship. The difference lies in the emphasis. Is Discipleship the center focus or is it merely peripheral to the Church? Pastor-Author, Eun Strawser hit......more

Goodreads review by Sarah

This book provoked some thoughts and questions for me that are really helpful and directive in how we do discipleship and will likely guide some conversion at our church. However, there were some significant gaps in the argument for her discipleship method that the author didn’t address and I was al......more

Goodreads review by Josh

In seminary, there was this saying that 10% of the people do 90% of the work. In reality, that might be closed to 5/95. Now, volunteering and doing the work necessary to keep a church functioning isn’t necessarily discipleship, but it does help illustrate the point that churches are not necessarily......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy

What if our Jesus communities centered the formation of people into the image of a Christ and allowed that to reshape our structures, rhythms, strategies, etc.?......more