I wrote:
Discipleship is not a program it is a process. As to NCC’s discipleship – it will take some months (maybe years) to get to the place where we can really get things going but ultimately what I see is something like this:
Level 1 discipleship – Sunday Morning Gatherings; other missional gatherings (like theology in a pub)
Level 2 Discipleship – Home Groups
Level 3 Discipleship – Home Group leaders identify and spend additional time with future leaders from their home groups
Level 4 Discipleship – Leadership training (something like Bible Study Methods, OT survey, NT Survey, Basic Theology,
Missiology)
The idea is to take people through a growth process (as the Holy Spirit prompts and moves in people’s lives). Some may enter the process at a pub and become a future campus pastor – others will likely enter with NCC at a point further down the road
It is all about process – From Becoming - to Being – to Building
Greg Responded:
Tell me if I’m right in this contrasting of “program” versus “process”:
Programs carry the connotation of “optional,” whereas “process” connotes something we all are involved in.
Programs can easily lose focus on why they exist, processes are well-integrated with their mission.
Programs can be completed, the discipleship process is continual.
Programs can be bought with cold cash, processes involve people in relationship
Program sounds almost dictatorial (or at least top-down), whereas process sounds like the responsibility is on the individual, thus they are more like participants.
I hope this might be helpful to others as we dialogue more about New City.
