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Customer Reviews for David C. Cook Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples
David C. Cook Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples
In Matthew 28:19, Jesus told his disciples, "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you." This commission includes believers today. The task may seem large, but it doesn't have to be an intimidating mandate, rather a way of living that invites people into what God is doing in their lives. However, somewhere along the line, disciple-making moved from being a part of everyday life to the sole responsibility of pastors and evangelists. The result is that we no longer feel equipped to share the life-giving gospel of Jesus with our friends and neighbors.
This isn't how things are supposed to be, and in Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples, Francis Chan and Mark Beuving show you how the joy of living your life with Christ in front of others can be restored. You'll discover the confidence and encouragement you need to step out in faith and make disciples out of the people that God has placed in your life.
Multiply offers 24 sessions of discipleship mentoring material designed for small-group use.
This isn't how things are supposed to be, and in Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples, Francis Chan and Mark Beuving show you how the joy of living your life with Christ in front of others can be restored. You'll discover the confidence and encouragement you need to step out in faith and make disciples out of the people that God has placed in your life.
Multiply offers 24 sessions of discipleship mentoring material designed for small-group use.
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Customer Reviews for Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples
Review 1 for Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples
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the "crowd" will always be larger than the "core."
Date:April 12, 2013
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Francis Chan is a best-selling author and the founding pastor of Cornerstone Church, and the founder of Eternity Bible College. He also sits on the board of directors of the Children’s Hunger Fund and World Impact. Currently, Francis is working to start a church planting movement in the inner city of San Francisco and also working to launch a countrywide discipleship movement.
Hence this book. Multiply: Making Disciples is one of those books that you can judge by it's cover. Yes, it's about growing as a church, yes, it's about discipleship - and since it's co-authored by Francis Chan, you can expect that there is a lot of good stuff in there.
In the book, Chan argues for the true purpose of the church: "making disciples."
"Jesus’ command to make disciples in the Great Commission (Matt 28:18-20) was not intended solely for the early disciples, nor is disciple-making the responsibility of a special class of Christians. Rather, all followers of Christ are called to make disciples, to fish for men (Matthew 4:19). Many don’t actively make disciples because they don’t know what it means to be a disciple."
My wife and I listened to Chan on his Simi Valley podcast and towards the end of his time there, we both agreed that Chan was growing frustrated at the seemingly inactive lifestyle of the global church. I would guess it gets hard week after week to call people to action, to call people to obedience, only to see them return Sunday after Sunday no different than the week before.
"We don't understand how serious it is when Jesus Christ gives us a command. We just don't get it."
In reading Multiply, you can still hear that frustration in Chan's voice.
But it's a maturity issue, it really is. And I would say that I think Chan is a little too hard on the global church. Discipleship is happening, and Christian growth is happening in the world - it really is, but we all move at our own pace.
Is there a large potion of the church who are content to just "attend" church and squeeze Jesus into their already packed life? Absolutely. But the "crowd" will always be larger than the "core."
There were other critics of this book who wanted more from it, and I admit as a stand alone book - it'd would have been nice to have some deeper application. (Chan does have a great chapter on studying the bible) But that's the great thing about this book, each of the 24 chapters in Multiply corresponds with an online video, where author David Platt helps expound the book even further.
This is still a very good book and I liked it better than his last two. The message is indeed needed in the church and I hope its a message that creates a following like Crazy Love did.
For me personally, Crazy Love is still his best book and probably the reason is because he wrote it. Forgotten God is co-written by Danae Yankoski. Erasing Hell is co-written by Preston Sprinkle. And as a reader and a Francis Chan fan, I would rather he got back into writing. I have no way to be sure, but I'd guess that the reasons why his last few books don't have the same fire as Crazy Love is because they are not 100% one voice.
Thank you to David C. Cook publishers for a review copy in exchange for a fair and honest review.
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Review 2 for Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples
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I was impressed the insertion of study questions.
Date:March 1, 2013
Richard Beschinski
Location:Valparaiso, In
Age:Over 65
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This is an excellent study. Once again Francis Chan has
put forth a teaching instrument which provides knowledge
of Scripture.
put forth a teaching instrument which provides knowledge
of Scripture.
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Review 3 for Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples
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Date:February 19, 2013
myrt
Location:Saskatchewan, Canada
Age:Over 65
Gender:female
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Good book if used for a group study in discipleship; otherwise, not as captivating as Chan's previous books. Would be well used in discipleship training venue.
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Review 4 for Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples
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Good Book for Discipling New Believers
Date:December 19, 2012
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In Multiply author Francis Chan attempts to provide the reader with a practical book to help in their efforts to make disciples. The intent of the author is to mobilize Christians to go and make disciples as is our command from Matthew 28. Much of Christianity today involves getting people to church so they can hear the pastor preach but failing to personal disciple them. This book invites every believer into the disciple making process, not strictly relying on pastors and church leaders alone.
The book begins with three chapters explaining a disciple maker. These chapters are meant to help the reader understand why they should desire to make disciples and what exactly a disciple is. The next four parts provide the meat of the book. These sections are as follows: Living as the Church, How to Study the Bible, Understanding the Old Testament, Understanding the New Testament. These sections provide the reader with an opportunity to disciple a new or young believer in a structured format. While not very deep (individuals books could be and have been written on the topics discussed in each chapter) they provide valuable information for a new believer. Each chapter has study questions in the book that are meant to spark thought and conversation. Each chapter also has a video that goes along with it and can be viewed at multiplymovement.com. These chapters are roughly 10-15 pages long and would be perfect for a weekly discipleship meeting. The amount of material and questions provided are good lengths to have a 45 minute to an hour and a half meeting (depending on how in depth you may get) with someone or a small group. The sections are very easy to read and should not be difficult even for new believers.
I think that this book is a valuable resource to help disciple new believers. It should be noted, however, that while a lot is covered in this book (all of Scripture and how to study it) it is covered in a shallow way. Anyone who has been a believer for any length of time and seriously studies their Bible will find nothing new here. I do not mean this as a knock on the book, I think it does exactly what it intends to do. It provides a “fly-by” intended to give the reader an understanding of the Bible and the Church and it does this quite well. I can see this book being used in my life as I encounter new or younger believers who need to grow in their knowledge. The layout, readability and external resource (provided by the website) all make this a very profitable book for discipling new believers.
I received a free copy of this book from David C. Cook in exchange for an honest review.
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Review 5 for Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples
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Good discipleship tool.
Date:December 17, 2012
Pastor Dale
Location:Miramichi, N.B. Canada
Age:55-65
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This book is a great discipleship tool. The ease of understanding and the flow of the subjects not only make this a good read and a refresher, it also makes it excellent for small group study and reinforcement.
I am currently using it to traing classroom teachers so we can do a whole church study in the new year.
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Review 6 for Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples
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Date:December 4, 2012
Kpires
Location:Vancouver, BC
Age:18-24
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This book is very challenging. The points in the book where you can take a break and watch a video from Platt and Chan help keep it interactive within your group studies. Great resource!
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Review 7 for Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples
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Challenging
Date:November 23, 2012
StevenH84
Age:25-34
Gender:male
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This is a great resource to use in early discipleship. It's challenging and encouraging to anyone who reads it.
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Review 8 for Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples
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Excellent book
Date:November 16, 2012
Dave
Location:Alberta, Canada
Age:35-44
Gender:male
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This book is such a great resource, along side the WORD of GOD, to help anyone be better equipped to build up others in the faith and go out and reach others for Jesus!
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