Before you can effectively lead others, you must lead yourself. Once you learn to successfully guide yourself toward your vision and goals, then you can do the same for your team.
In Lead You: The Winning Combination to Achieve Personal and Professional Success, Bobby Harrington shows you how self-leadership can transform you into the leader you aspire to be. Bobby’s Lead Yourself First method provides a self-leadership framework that teaches you how to utilize the basic tenets of leadership, execute tasks with passion and discipline, and commit to continuous improvement. The Lead Yourself First method is a roadmap through the foundations of self-leadership, the importance of discipline and personal responsibility, and the concept of sovereignty in leadership.
Once you embrace self-leadership, you become more productive, constructive, and promotable. Lead You is an easy-to-follow guide for transforming yourself into a capable leader.
For far too long, the church has tried to make disciples using a one-size-fits-all approach. Some churches advocate 1-on-1 discipling, others try getting everyone into a small group, while still others training through mission trips or service projects. Yet others focus all their efforts on attracting people to a large group gathering to hear biblical teaching and preaching. But does one size really fit everyone?
Based on careful biblical study and years of experience making disciples in the local church, Bobby Harrington and Alex Absalom have identified five key relationships where discipleship happens in our lives. In each relational context we need to understand how discipleship occurs and we need to set appropriate expectations for each context.
Discipleship That Fits shows you the five key ways discipleship occurs. It looks at how Jesus made disciples and how disciples were formed in the early church. Each of the contexts is necessary at different times and in different ways as a person grows toward maturity in Christ:
- Public Relationships: The church gathering corporately for worship
- Social Relationships: Networks of smaller relationships where we engage in mission and live out our faith in community
- Personal Relationships: Small groups of six to sixteen people where we challenge and encourage one another on a regular basis
- Transparent Relationships: Close relationships of three to four where we share intimate details of our lives for accountability
- The Divine Relationship: Our relationship with Jesus Christ where we grow through the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit
Filled with examples and stories, Alex and Bobby show you how to develop discipleship practices in each relational context by sharing how Jesus did it, how the early church practiced it, and how churches are discipling people today.
Accompanying figures, resources, and appendixes are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
Many people believe that discipleship is important, but they need help. In fact, the vast majority of Christians report that they have never been personally discipled by a more mature follower of Jesus. Is it any wonder that they have a difficult time knowing how to disciple others?
If making disciples of Jesus is the greatest cause on earth, how should we equip people to do it? This handbook is a practical guide for how to embrace the discipleship lifestyle - being a disciple of Jesus and how to make other disciples of Jesus. With contributions from pastors and teachers like Francis Chan, Jeff Vanderstelt, Bill Hull, Jim Putman, KP Yohannan, and Robert Coleman, the authors present seven elements that are necessary for disciple making to occur:
- Jesus-the original disciple maker and centerpiece of discipleship.
- Holy Spirit-fuels the disciple-making process.
- Intentionality-making disciples utilizing a strategy and a roadmap.
- Relationships-creating a loving, genuine connection with others who trust and follow Jesus.
- Bible-using the Word of God as the manual for making disciples.
- Journey-forging a traceable growth story from a new birth to spiritual parenthood.
- Multiply-reproducing the discipleship process so that the disciple becomes a disciple maker.
Whether you are a parent who wants to disciple your children, a small group leader who wants to disciple those in your group, or a church leader who wants to disciple future leaders, the seven key elements in this handbook form a framework for understanding discipleship that can be applied in countless situations. In addition, there are questions provided in each section to help you think through how to apply the material to your disciple making efforts.
Accompanying charts and reflection questions are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
Over the last thirty years, many influential church leaders and church planters in America have adopted various models for reaching unchurched people. An ÄúattractionalÄù model seeks to attract people to a local church. Younger leaders may advocate a more ÄúmissionalÄù approach, in which believers live and work among unchurched people and intentionally seek to serve like Christ. While each of these approaches have merit, something is still missing, something even more fundamental to the mission of the church: discipleship. Making disciplesÄîhelping people to trust and follow JesusÄîis the churchÄôs God-given mandate. Discipleship empowers Christians to be more like Christ, and devoted disciples attract people outside the church because of the change others see in them. DiscipleShift walks pastors and church leaders through the five key ÄúshiftsÄù that churches must make to refocus on that biblical mission. These intentional changes will attract the world and empower believers to be salt and light in their communities.
