{"id":13195,"date":"2020-08-01T16:37:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T21:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=13195"},"modified":"2020-08-01T16:38:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T21:38:18","slug":"book-review-replicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=13195","title":{"rendered":"Book Review | Replicate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"672\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.test\/content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/811pRXaQ5UL-672x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/811pRXaQ5UL-672x1024.jpg 672w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/811pRXaQ5UL-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/811pRXaQ5UL-768x1170.jpg 768w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/811pRXaQ5UL-361x550.jpg 361w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/811pRXaQ5UL-328x500.jpg 328w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/811pRXaQ5UL.jpg 1575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Replicate-Create-Culture-Disciple-Making-Right\/dp\/0802419992\/ref=sxts_sxwds-bia-wc-p13n1_0?cv_ct_cx=replicate&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=replicate&amp;pd_rd_i=0802419992&amp;pd_rd_r=b42b5bdf-b554-4a8b-a8ff-6e5b74fa75ca&amp;pd_rd_w=9SgSS&amp;pd_rd_wg=C5HEA&amp;pf_rd_p=13bf9bc7-d68d-44c3-9d2e-647020f56802&amp;pf_rd_r=W3EQD1K7G5H93G6K96DC&amp;psc=1&amp;qid=1596317719&amp;sr=1-1-791c2399-d602-4248-afbb-8a79de2d236f\">Replicate<\/a><\/em> by <a href=\"https:\/\/longhollow.com\/meet-pastor-robby\/\">Robby Gallaty<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/longhollow.com\/staff\/chris-swain\/?is=1\">Chris Swain<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Disciple-making<\/strong> is intentionally entering into someone\u2019s life to help them know and follow Jesus (evangelism) and teach them to obey His commands (discipleship). p. 9 <\/li><li><strong>Evangelism<\/strong> is sharing the gospel (good news) of Jesus Christ with someone to help them know and follow Jesus as Lord through repentance and faith.&nbsp; p. 9 <\/li><li><strong>Discipleship<\/strong> is intentionally equipping believers with the Word of God through accountable relationships empowered by the Holy Spirit in order to replicate faithful followers of Christ.&nbsp; p. 9 <\/li><li>A <strong>disciple<\/strong> is a devoted follower of Jesus.&nbsp; p. 9 <\/li><li>Disciple-making is the overarching theme of the Great Commission. &nbsp;Discipleship and evangelism are how we carry out the command.&nbsp; p. 9 <\/li><li>\u201cOne must decide if he wants his ministry to count in momentary applause of popular recognition or the reproduction of his life in a few chosen men to carry on his work after he has gone.\u201d Robert Coleman, <em>The Master\u2019s Plan of Evangelism<\/em> p. 13 <\/li><li>How do we move new believers beyond a one-time decision? &nbsp;How do we grow our existing believers to become coworkers instead of consumers? p. 14 <\/li><li>\u201cAre you making disciples?\u201d p. 17 <\/li><li>What God commanded the first humans to do physically is what Jesus commanded believers to do spiritually. p. 18 <\/li><li>Multiplication\u2014not addition\u2014is Jesus\u2019 plan for reaching the world with the gospel. p. 19 <\/li><li>Baptism is not the finish line of a relationship with Christ. &nbsp;It\u2019s the starting line of a lifelong journey toward God. p. 25 <\/li><li>Every ministry leader must ask themselves and those they lead two questions: 1. &nbsp;Do we have a process for making disciples\u2014moving new believers toward biblical maturity in Christ? 2. &nbsp;Is it working? p. 27 <\/li><li>Jesus didn\u2019t just save us <em>from<\/em> sin; He saved us <em>for<\/em> something. p. 29 <\/li><li>Two questions I ask my discipleship group each week are: 1. &nbsp;Who did you share your faith with this week? 2. &nbsp;Did you even try? p. 43 <\/li><li>THE GREAT COMMANDS It\u2019s worth noting five words in The Great Commission: go, make disciples, baptist, and teach. &nbsp;Only one of them is an imperative. &nbsp;The driving force of the commission is to \u201cmake disciples.\u201d&nbsp; + Think Missionally (\u201cGo, therefore\u201d) + Share Intentionally (\u201cBaptizing in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit\u201d) + Live Obediently (\u201cTeaching them to observe everything I have commanded you\u201d) <\/li><li>\u201cApply yourself wholly to the Scriptures; apply the Scriptures wholly to yourself.\u201d &#8211; J.A. Bengell, p. 59 <\/li><li>\u201cA church can excel at anything and everything else, but if the church fails to make disciples, she has wandered from her fundamental reason for existence.\u201d-Eric Geiger, p. 61 <\/li><li>\u201c\u201dThe Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them into little Christs. &nbsp;If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.\u201d -C.S. Lewis, p. 61 <\/li><li>John 17 records the seven practices Jesus repeatedly ingrained in the disciples\u2019 minds: John 17:6: Revelation John 17:8: Information John 17:9: Supplication John 17:12: Protection John 17:18: Mobilization John 17:19: Sanctification John 17:22: Replication p. 63 <\/li><li>The goal is not just to learn more; it\u2019s to live out what we know. p. 63 <\/li><li>\u201cOpen my eyes so that I may contemplate wondrous things form your instruction.\u201d (Psalm 119:18) p. 76 <\/li><li>\u201cNow we have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power may be from God and not from us.\u201d (2 Corinthians 4:7), p. 83 <\/li><li>\u201cWe proclaim him, warning and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ. &nbsp;I labor for this, striving with his strength that works powerfully in me.\u201d (Colossians 1:28-29), p. 84 <\/li><li>How many decisions have we made without really seeking a word from God? &nbsp;How many ideas have we implemented without hearing from God? p. 86 <\/li><li>ELEMENTS OF A DAILY RESET + Relationships + Environment + Scripture + Emotions + Thankfulness p. 94 <\/li><li>\u201cHas your role outpaced your soul?\u201d -Pete Scazzero, p. 95 <\/li><li>\u201cThe surest way to discipline passion is to discipline time: decide what you want or ought to do during the day, then always do it at exactly the same moment every day, and passion will give you no trouble.\u201d -W.H. Auden, p. 100 <\/li><li>\u201cRather than encouraging people to use their vocations to serve the church, what if we made it a church task to mobilize Christins to use their vocations to serve people in need.\u201d Bob Roberts, p. 114 <\/li><li>\u201cChristianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.\u201d Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p. 117 <\/li><li>You change the culture by celebrating the right scorecard. p. 138 <\/li><li>THE IRREDUCIBLE ELEMENTS OF BIBLICAL COMMUNITY + God\u2019s Word + Breaking Bread + Prayer + Fellowship and Unity + Mutual Care + Missional Living + Biblical Community Model p. 144 <\/li><li>The goal is to spend at least as much time praying as you do requesting. p. 153 <\/li><li>\u201cFaithful me\u201d are men or women who are people of FAITH: Faithful, Available, Intentional, Teachable, and Humble. p. 158 <\/li><li>Invite: \u201cWould you be interested in meeting once a week to study the Bible, memorize Scripture, and pray?\u201d p. 160 <\/li><li>Evangelism is what we do when we introduce lost people to Jesus by sharing the good news of Christ. &nbsp;Discipleship is taking that person and helping them become more like Jesus. p. 170 <\/li><li>There is a danger about living life on mission that few believers acknowledge: it is far easier to occupy our time working on the kingdom than it is to spend time with the king. p. 175 <\/li><li>Gathering crowds isn\u2019t difficult; it\u2019s what we do with the crowd that makes all the difference. &nbsp;For too long, we have been crowd-gatherers rather than disciple-makers. p. 176 <\/li><li>We can manufacture the best ideas and processes, but if we don\u2019t change the culture, our people will digress to what they know best: a non-discipleship culture. p. 184 <\/li><li>Motivation leads to execution. &nbsp;When people don\u2019t understand the why behind the what, they revert back to the \u201cold way\u201d of doing things. p. 185 <\/li><li>KISS: Keep It, Increase It, Start It, Stop It. p. 198 <\/li><li>While church staff should be expected to grow personally and consistently, leaders can undergird that spiritual growth by providing community and accountability. Leaders must inspect what they expect. By investing in discipling staff, ministry leaders ensure those they lead are accountable and growing in a community of peers. p. 200 <\/li><li>\u201cYou cannot lead where you will not go; you cannot teach what you do not know.\u201d -Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch, The Faith of Leap, p. 205 <\/li><li>The more you know Him, the more you love Him. &nbsp;The more you love Him, the more you obey Him. &nbsp;The more you obey Him, the more He manifests Himself to you. p. 214 <\/li><li>The MARCS of a healthy discipleship group are guideposts for determining the health of your discipleship ministry and discipling relationships.&nbsp; + Missional + Accountable + Reproducible + Communal + Scriptural p. 233 <\/li><li>JESUS\u2019 MODEL FOR MINISTRY + Jesus ministered while the disciples watched. Matthew 5-7, Mark 1 + Jesus progressed to allowing the disciples to assist Him in ministry. John 6:1-13 + the disciples ministered, and Jesus assisted them. Mark 9 + Jesus observing as the disciples ministered to others. Luke 10:1-17, p. 236 <\/li><li>\u201cSin demands to have a man by himself. &nbsp;It withdraws him from the community. The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him.\u201d &#8211; Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p. 253 <\/li><li>\u201cBe strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. &nbsp;And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, commit to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.\u201d 2 Timothy 2:1-2, p. 257 <\/li><li>\u201cTherefore, I remind you to keep ablaze the gift of God that is in you through the laying on of hands. &nbsp;For God has not given us a spirit of fearfulness, but one of power, love, and sound judgement.\u201d (2 Timothy 1:6-7). p. 258 <\/li><li>\u201cHold on to the pattern of sound teaching that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. &nbsp;Guard, through the Holy Spirit who lives in us, that good thing entrusted to you.\u201d (2 Timothy 1:13-14). p. 258 <\/li><li>\u201cThe work of evangelism is never complete until the one evangelized becomes an evangelizer.\u201d -Dr. Herschel Hobbs, p. 261 <\/li><li>Four qualities we aim to reproduce: 1. &nbsp;Believers who are under the rule of Christ. (Matthew 28:19) 2. &nbsp;Believers who repeat the Word of God. (Deuteronomy 6:4-9) 3. Believers who reflect the image of Christ. (2 Corinthians 3:18, Romans 8:29) 4. Believers who replicate the process of Christ. p. 264 <\/li><li>A discipleship group offers the opportunity to live out the \u201cone anothers\u201d in the Bible. &nbsp;p. 270 <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Replicate by Robby Gallaty and Chris Swain Disciple-making is intentionally entering into someone\u2019s life to help them know and follow Jesus (evangelism) and teach them to obey His commands (discipleship). p. 9 Evangelism is sharing the gospel (good news) of Jesus Christ with someone to help them know and follow Jesus as Lord through repentance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14,16,23,28,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible-study","category-book-review","category-family","category-generosity","category-integrity","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/811pRXaQ5UL.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}