{"id":1232,"date":"2014-06-27T09:27:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T13:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nccumc.org\/connectionalministries\/?page_id=1232"},"modified":"2023-01-11T10:47:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T15:47:42","slug":"disciple-making-way","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/connectional-ministries\/disciple-making-way\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disciple Making Way: Living From The Life Of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"excerpt_text\">\n<p>As presented at Annual Conference 2012, The Disciple Making Way is the proclamation and process of abundant love; the full abundance of God&#8217;s love and a life that seeks God in all things. \u00a0The Disciple Making Way continues in 2016 as a major facet of Connectional Ministries. \u00a0Shift Congregational Coaching is now the primary vehicle\u00a0we are using to facilitate the Disciple Making Way. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/connectional-ministries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/Shift-Effective-Ministry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1963\" src=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/connectional-ministries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/Shift-Effective-Ministry-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Shift - Effective Ministry\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/connectional-ministries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/Shift-Effective-Ministry-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/connectional-ministries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/Shift-Effective-Ministry-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/connectional-ministries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/Shift-Effective-Ministry.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Disciple Making Way is intended to guide a congregation to answer for themselves the &#8220;what do I do now&#8221; question of persons seeking to grow in Christ. While the answer each congregation gives will be unique to that congregation, there will be some shared values in this process.<\/p>\n<p>In the fall of 2016, The Disciple Making Way will provide the same rich, transformative training, through our continuing process of Shift Coaching.<\/p>\n<p>The Disciple Making Way will be:<a href=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/connectional-ministries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/Shift-50-percent-experience-no-love.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1970 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/connectional-ministries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/Shift-50-percent-experience-no-love-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Shift - 50 percent experience no love\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/connectional-ministries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/Shift-50-percent-experience-no-love-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/connectional-ministries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/Shift-50-percent-experience-no-love-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/connectional-ministries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/Shift-50-percent-experience-no-love.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clear &amp; Unique<\/li>\n<li>Intentional<\/li>\n<li>Wesleyan<\/li>\n<li>Experiential<\/li>\n<li>Expecting Growth<\/li>\n<li>Looking For &amp; Celebrating Fruit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Disciple-making is the process of seeing people come to faith in Christ, grow in Jesus and then being equipped to go back and help others repeat this process. Disciple making is more than discipleship, which usually defines how to help believers grow. Disciple making is a life-long process of becoming more like Christ and helping others do the same.<a href=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/connectional-ministries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/Shift-Church-in-the-world.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1971\" src=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/connectional-ministries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/Shift-Church-in-the-world-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Shift - Church in the world\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/connectional-ministries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/Shift-Church-in-the-world-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/connectional-ministries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/Shift-Church-in-the-world-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/connectional-ministries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/Shift-Church-in-the-world.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find out more about The Disciple Making Way by reading <a title=\"Disciple-Making Way Script\" href=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/connectional-ministries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/06\/dmw-script-ac12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the script<\/a> (PDF, 86KB) and viewing <a title=\"Disciple-Making Way PPT Slides\" href=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/connectional-ministries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/06\/dmw-ppt-ac12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the PowerPoint slides<\/a> (PDF, 1.8MB) from the presentation given at Annual Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As presented at Annual Conference 2012, The Disciple Making Way is the proclamation and process of abundant love; the full abundance of God&#8217;s love and a life that seeks God 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