Discipleship Models in the Church Today

I mentioned this a few weeks back in brief form, but for those of us who give strong attention to the topic of discipleship in the church, I wanted to draw attention to a very helpful resource.

Brian Hofmeister, a friend and Pastor of Spiritual Formation at Christ’s Church in Albany, NY, offers an extremely helpful review and assessment of significant models of discipleship today. If this is a topic of interest to you (it had better be at some level, if you are in leadership in any form at a church!!), take a look at his comments on the following:
– an overview of key issues and outline of Brian’s approach to the following posts
– Xenos in Ohio
– Life Transformation Groups – Neil Cole, author of Organic Church
– G-12 (Government of 12)
– Comprehensive curriculum approaches – Randy Pope’s D-Teams and Steve Sonderman’s Soul Purpose
– “Jesus Carbon Copy” – advocacy for Brian’s own approach involving intentionality and proximity
– a debrief of the conversation and responses to these different approaches

– some of Brian’s further thoughts about discipleship, pt 1: roles and goals in discipleship
– pt 2: maturity mile markers in discipleship

As our own spiritual formation team is working on the pathway for growth at Brooklife, I was pleased to have such a great conversation partner out there to spur us onward toward developing a meaningful approach to discipleship.