Daniel Im

Pastor + Author

Leadership

How does the size of your gathering affect your culture of discipleship?

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“What are some practical ways to shift the church culture from a monthly men’s Bible study to an accountable discipleship group? Do you start with a handful of guys and just abandon the others who only come to the monthly study, or what?”

By ordering my new book, The Discipleship Opportunity: Leading a Great-Commission Church in a Post-Everything World, Paul was able to submit this question.

So in the following video, I answer his question by unpacking how the size of your gatherings will affect your culture of discipleship.

If you would like to submit your question on discipleship, evangelism, or preaching that I’ll answer via video, check out my order offer here.

Expanding + Expounding on No Silver Bullets

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Is there a 2.0 version of No Silver Bullets?

I am deeply grateful that the message of No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry is still helping churches around the world figure out how to create a discipleship pathway, and make micro-shifts that lead to macro-changes.

But it’s been 8 years since the book released, and since then—my goodness how our world has changed!

Today, our world is arguably more divisive, more political, more indifferent, and more impatient than it’s ever been. We are living in a post-truth, post-Christian, post-pandemic, and pretty much post-everything world.

So to my question above—yes there is a 2.0 version of No Silver Bullets! It’s called The Discipleship Opportunity: Leading a Great-Commission Church in a Post-Everything World where I expand and expound on No Silver Bullets:

  • In it, I revisit the structure of a discipleship pathway that I unpacked in No Silver Bullets, and then expand and expound on how to create one in the world that we’re living in today. 
  • On top of that, I unpack the biggest shift that’s taken place over the last 70+ years of church strategy and structures in North America, and how we must adapt today. 

So if you thought No Silver Bullets was helpful, then I want to encourage you to pick up a copy of my newest book, The Discipleship Opportunity.

Top Quotes on Between Two Worlds: The Challenge of Preaching Today by John Stott

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Of all the books on preaching out there, this is my favourite one.

Published in 1982 by John Stott (1921-2011) who was a pastor to pastors, theologian, integral to the Lausanne Movement, and the author of more than 50 books, this book is an oldie, but definitely a goodie.

At Beulah, I bring all of our preacher’s together (current and aspiring) four times a year for our Preacher’s Learning Community. Between Two Worlds by John Stott is required reading as it’s comprehensive in the theology, art, craft, and calling of preaching.

In my opinion, here are the top quotes from this classic. Enjoy!

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