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1932902678 978-1932902679 April 1, 2007 Rev Exp
In a recent study, pollster George Barna stated that the number one topic of interest for church leaders today is discipleship. Not growth, not pastoral care, not evangelism. Discipleship.

According to E. Stanley Ott, President of The Vital Churches Institute, There is no person more qualified to address the greatest need in the church today than Glenn McDonald that of showing how the local church can grow vital disciples.

In his easy going writing style, author Glenn McDonald tells the story of how he, as the busy pastor of a large and growing suburban church near Indianapolis was struggling with the ABCs of attendance, building and cash. One evening at the end of another church board meeting one of his elders asked a simple question. How long would it take for someone who visits our church to learn about his or her need for Jesus and to find out what to do about it? From that night forward the entire focus of the church changed. All canned programs for ministry were ended as everything about the church was examined in the light of Christ s charge to go forth and make disciples.

The Disciple Making Church is presented in two parts six discipling relationships and six marks of a disciple. McDonald weaves vivid Scriptural insights and the wisdom of scholars with the experiences of his own congregation and others, and distills it all into one helpful, valuable and enjoyable book. If you ve ever wondered if the busyness of many of today s churches isn t what Christ was talking about, this book will have a lasting impact on your church.


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This is an excellent resource for pastors and congregations seeking to reclaim formation and discipleship as central to their life and purpose. --The Christian Century magazine, October 2005

About the Author

Glenn McDonald is senior pastor of Zionsville Presbyterian Church in suburbanIndianapolis, a congregation he helped organize in 1983. The church was named one of the 300 Excellent Protestant Congregations in America in a recent Lilly Endowment funded study. He is co-author with Ben C. Johnson of Imagining a Church in the Spirit and a consultant on church growth for the Presbyterian Church (USA). He holds a Master of Divinity Degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois.

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: FaithWalk Publishing; Rev Exp edition (April 1, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1932902678
  • ISBN-13: 978-1932902679
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.9 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring, August 12, 2006
This is one of several books that I have read in the past couple years that have been transformational for me.

McDonald is the senior pastor of Zionsville Presbyterian Church in suburban Indianapolis, which was organized in 1983 and has been named as one of the 300 excellent Protestant congregations in America by Westminster/John Knox Press.

McDonald bids "farewell" to the "ABC" church -- churches that make attendance, building, and cash their primary concerns. "It's safe to say," McDonald says in his first chapter, "that a large majority of Protestant congregations have made attendance, building, and cash -- as opposed to Christ's Great Commission in Matthew 28:18-20 to be and to make disciples -- their organizational bottom line." "The dirty secret of the ABC church," McDonald says, "is that its goals are far below the bar that is set in Scripture. It is disturbingly easy to make progress on the scales of attendance, building, and cash even while failing to sustain significant conversation with God or enjoying redemptive relationships with people."

The first half of the book is devoted to questions pertaining to spiritual transformation, framed around six key questions (which would make an excellent sermon series, by the way). The second half of the book identifies six marks of discipleship. I won't spoil the book by telling you what the six questions or the six marks are. Go read this for yourself!

As a mainline Protestant on the "left" end of the theological spectrum, I expected to have some theological issues with this book. I was surprised to discover that I really did not. McDonald is onto something huge here, and we better start listening.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Insights directly relevant to Christian congregations, April 13, 2004
Glenn McDonald is the senior pastor of Zionsville Presbyterian Church in suburban Indianapolis. The Disciple Making Church: From Dry Bones To Spiritual Vitality is the true and inherently interesting story of Pastor McDonald's reaction to a profound question: "How long would it take for someone who visits our church to learn about his or her need for Jesus and to find out what to do about it?" Taking this serious issue to heart, Pastor McDonald overhauled and reexamined everything about his church in light of Christ's call to "go forth and make disciples". Blending insights from scripture, the knowledge of biblical scholars, and highlighting the six discipling relationships and six marks of the disciple, The Disciple Making Church is an inspirational and spiritual testimony that is practical while replete with insights directly relevant to Christian congregations across America and around the world.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best book I've read on discipleship, period., September 3, 2007
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Author Glenn McDonald's easy going writing style is perfect for telling the story of how, as pastor of a large suburban congregation, his church was transformed from stressing the ABCs of attendance, building and cash to one that made disciples of Jesus Christ. The book is divided into two parts: six discipling relationships and six marks of a disciple. It correctly points out that being a disciple is based on relationships and on who a disciple is. McDonald weaves Scriptural insights and the wisdom of scholars with the experiences of his own congregation and others, distilling it into a helpful, valuable and enjoyable book. It is a book that will impact pastors, church leaders, seminaries, congregational study groups and individual church members. I recommend it highly.
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