Making Disciples and Leading Others to Make Them

A Missionary Family Discovers the Essentials of How Jesus Made Disciples Who Made Disciples

By: Ian Kristofer

Narrated by: Millian Quinteros

Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins

Publisher's summary

In the greater church-community, the word discipleship is not uncommon by any means. For a new believer, it could be one of the first things they hear. Maybe they hear something like, "Well now you need to plug into a church and get discipled." What can be uncommon is finding many believers in the global church consistently multiplying disciples. Why isn’t the discipleship process multiplying throughout the greater church the way we see in the gospels and the book of Acts? Jesus was the greatest model in history of true discipleship multiplication. He started the process with himself by answering the Father’s call on his own life. Then, he found and invited a few to come with him, built deep relationship and trust with them, began a small movement that rapidly grew into the greatest movement ever recorded, and finally left an incredible map for us to continue the work to the ends of the world!

In Making Disciples and Leading Others to Make Them author Ian Kristofer dives into this ongoing global church challenge in a unique and personal way. With eight years of experience living among an unreached oral-only community in South-East Africa, Ian shares the essentials he has learned from Jesus on how to continue the discipleship map Jesus started, and how it is creating a small movement through-out the country. What makes this book unique is that since February 2015, Ian and his family are still currently serving in the country full time and continuing to apply these strategies daily. These essentials can be used anywhere, with anybody!

You will experience:

• Essential and biblical guides to multiplying disciples.
• Real-life stories from their groups and process.
• Practical guides and exercises that lead to results for you to practice.

Jesus called every follower of his to go make disciples. He didn’t exclude anyone in his process! After listening to this book, Ian believes you will find the courage and faith to say, 'if a normal guy like him can do it, so can I." And Christ himself will be with you always, even to the end of the age!

©2023 Ian Kristofer Gennari (P)2023 Ian Kristofer Gennari

Biblically thoughtful, culturally relevant, & spiritually powerful

A delightful yet searing read with prayer prompts (don’t skip these!), full of practical tips from an author and his family’s first hand account of biblically-based discipleship in Mozambique.
Through his own successes and failures, the author has stripped down and laid bare the road of discipleship from the Gospel stories relating to the ministry of Jesus Christ. Then, using these stories of strategy and the Holy Spirit as the guide, he details real-life results and challenges faced with poignant vignettes and practical steps to integrate.
With a simple (but never easy) pattern of engagement (as Jesus did in my opinion), the author allows one to take this road of discipleship into their own cultural context - whether it’s Laos, London, or Los Angeles - and build out as the Holy Spirit leads.
In the West, as the areas of self-help, seminars, and roadmaps to success litter the landscape I found the authors writing style as “fresh bread” by stressing simplicity over complexity, walking out forgiveness, and being led by the Holy Spirit thru prayer and action over formulaic planning alone.
I look forward to integrating these principles into my family’s mission field.
Cheers!

Inspiring, practical, and Biblically sound

I thoroughly enjoyed this book! Ian skillfully weaves inspiring, honest, and relatable testimonies from his personal experiences with clear and practical principles that can be applied anywhere, whether in a cross-cultural setting like Ian had been in, or in a normal, everyday setting wherever you may call home. I appreciate the way Ian provides a solid biblical foundation for the principles he highlights so that you know that he is writing about things that are on the Father’s heart, rather than just the thoughts of man. The book flows easily and is engaging and filled with wise insight, stirring the reader out of apathy and complacency for the status quo and into a meaningful and purposeful adventure of making disciples.

I have been living and serving among the same people group that Ian has been working with for over nine years, and I can attest that what Ian writes about works and is has been having a powerful impact on his community and beyond. While I believe the primary target audience of this book is Christians living in Westernized contexts, I found the book to be profoundly applicable and encouraging for my context as well.

I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn how to do exactly what the title says: to make disciples and to lead others to do the same as well.