Centering Discipleship Learning Hui (Gathering)

A growing number of people, both young and old, dislike the church but love Jesus. Yet we all long for transcendence – a sense of purpose, a group to belong to, as well as healing and wholeness. People long for mentors that will help them to become more like Jesus. But too often we have inherited a form of church where instead of making space for deep community, missional purposes, and intentional development to become more like Jesus, we have settled for a once-a-week event. If we desire to see God’s reign become a greater reality in our neighborhoods and social networks, we need to move discipleship from the peripheral to the center of what we do.

• Centering Discipleship Requires Redesigning Structure:
  from centering Sunday to centering discipleship

  • Week 1: Structure Matters: 4 spaces + centering discipleship

  • Week 2: Structure Affects Assumptions and Behaviors: theory of transformation + centering discipleship

  • Week 3: Redesigning our Current Structures: from centering Sunday service to centering discipleship

  • Week 4: Scaffolding Structure: implementing centering discipleship

• Centering Discipleship and Constructing a Discipleship Pathway:
  developing a pathway to transform spectators into missional disciples

  • Week 1: Essential Ingredients of a Discipleship Pathway: knowing the difference between essentials, tools, and marks

  • Week 2: Disguised as Discipleship: knowing the difference between programs and pathways

  • Week 3: Contextualized Pathway: knowing the balance between a generalized universal discipleship and a uniquely local discipleship

  • Week 4: Building a Discipleship Pathway: knowing where and with whom to start a discipleship pathway

• Centering Discipleship Connects the Church to City Renewal:
  moving disciples outside the church walls

  • Week 1: Basics of Movement: how movement theology helps us move from building to neighborhood

  • Week 2: Hurdles of Movement: common hurdles to help our community overcome

  • Week 3: Movement Needs Discipleship: connecting disciples to mission

  • Week 4: Centering Discipleship Moves the Church into the City: discipleship + 7 areas of culture