Your church is only as good as it's disciples. If that is true, then what is the most effective method for discipleship in the world right now and what can we learn from it? Find out.
Even the best plans for discipleship can be derailed by the waywardness of sin, apathy, or disobedience. William Branch gives 3 simple ways to stick with and continue to disciple someone who fails you.
Among humanity, is no pre-disposition towards saving grace, only pre-indisposition. If we are "dead in our trespasses and sins", then nobody is "farther" or "closer" away from Christ. We are all, rather, equally dead. The ground is level both at the foot of the cross and the plain of the cemetery. Nobody is more saved than others by Christ and nobody is more separated than others from Christ. So Saul the persecutor of Christians and Cornelius the "God-fearer" were equally dead in their trespasses and sins and equally in need of divine alien righteousness. And this makes all the difference for how we make disciples among the nations.
Matthew 10:5-42 are the "marching orders" of the apostles. And they are very helpful for those of us church planting in dangerous places among the unreached.
Rodrick Gilbert, a disciple maker who began a discipleship movement in India that's started thousands of new churches, gives an incredible insight into the fruit of discipleship.