You may love your church and enjoy sitting there soaking up sermons and worshipping together. It can’t take you where you need to go to fulfill the mission of Jesus. If a church doesn’t have a simple, reproducible process for making disciples who make disciples, it won’t take anyone anywhere. You could imagine driving down the coast of Florida with the sun shining and the wind blowing through your hair. You could put down the windows and take the top off. Right now you could go sit in my car and enjoy the radio or cd player. Too many churches are like cars that won’t start. I’ve talked to many of them who don’t even think it’s their responsibility. It’s possible that many Christians have never been trained to make disciples. They attend faithfully and give generously, but they just don’t obey Jesus’ instructions to make disciples. Yet the church members are not actually engaged in making disciples who make disciples. They may have a nice worship service with great features – excellent worship, practical teaching, friendly people, and comfortable seats. They don’t have a disciplemaking engine that works. Here’s a major problem in many churches in America. You may be wondering: What is a disciplemaking engine?Ī Disciplemaking Engine is…an effective process for making disciples who make disciples. If the engine will never start, your car is worthless.Ĭhurches Need Disciplemaking Engines that Workįor churches to accomplish the mission of Jesus, they need a working disciplemaking engine. If your car doesn’t have an engine that will start when you need it, it’s undependable at best. Here’s the basic truth that most people understand – you car needs a working engine. I’ve decided to sell it as is because the motor doesn’t work. It’s sitting behind the repair shop and needs a new engine. In fact, right now after some initial work on it, I’ve been told that it won’t start at all. It has a blown head gasket and hasn’t been starting right away. It overheated last month and has been leaking coolant. Yet I want to be completely transparent with you why I’m selling it. To be honest, I don’t want to sell this car. It has some great features – air conditioning, power windows, automatic, convertible, radio/cd player and new radiator. It is located in Boca Raton, Florida where my son has been driving it around town. After five years of driving my ’97 Honda Del Sol, it’s time to sell it.
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