Repairing the Missional Breach
Why the Church Isn’t Making Disciples and How We Can Fix It
- Discipleship & Christian Education
- Church Leadership & Ministry
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Published: 2024
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Publisher's Description
Making disciples is the primary calling of the church; however, in the past decades of American evangelicalism, there has been a breach of Christ's Great Commission (as found in Matt 28:19-20). Much of this failure can be attributed to the doctrine and practice within three modern church movements. The book offers a history and critique of modern American evangelical church movements, including the Church Growth, Emergent Church, and Missional Church movements. Each of these movements did not result in disciple making multiplication. In this book, you will find an analysis of disciple making in these movements as compared to the methods and model of Jesus. Informed by these critiques, formative ministry adjustments are presented as a faithful path for future missional approaches.
Endorsements (2)
“Kevin Blackwell reminds us that making disciples is often complicated and messy. His passion for helping the church make disciples is evident in Repairing the Missional Breach. Through careful analysis and research, Blackwell lays out the strengths and weaknesses of modern church movements that have influenced American churches. His final chapter, “Toward a Faithful Missional Future: Ministry Shifts Needed to Repair the Breach” provides insight into how we move forward with church disciple-making practices that will equip the church to make disciples of future generations.”
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