Innovating Discipleship Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

by Will Mancini

Everyone is talking about discipleship, but too many churches stick to business as usual. Sunday comes and Sunday goes. The preacher preaches, the band worships, money gets put in the plate and people get back to their busy, unaffected lives. Hasn't God called us to more? Will Mancini thinks so, and that's what Innovating Discipleship is all about. Innovating Discipleship is for church leaders who have growing discontent for "best practicing" and "fast following." Is God calling you to re-dream and re-invent beyond the ministry models that were handed to you? If so, this short read will bolster your courage and stoke your imagination. In this potent book, Mancini uncovers the primary obstacle in the minds of pastors that keeps discipleship stuck - revealed through thousands of hours of coaching with church leaders. He calls it the "default vision switch." More importantly, Innovating Discipleship gives you a simple and powerful tool to guide you, step by step, into the freedom and confidence of real discipleship, for your time and your place. In the end, there are only four paths to getting the results you have always wanted. Which path will be right for you? Innovating Discipleship is Will Mancini's first book since releasing Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture and Create Movement.

Genres: Discipleship, Nonfiction, Leadership

106 pages, Paperback

First published July 19, 2013

Reviews

[Kristian Kilgore · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not only is this a remarkable strategic guide, but the most valuable thing about Mancini‘s book is the remarkable amount of questions that emerge in the readers mind while working through it.
It does challenge church leaders, but the challenge is not aggressive or mean spirited. The challenge is basically a mirror that we all need to hold in front of us and ask the plane questions that are typically avoided in strategy meetings and leadership gatherings. It should not frighten us to ask questions like, why do we do what we do? Are we doing all that we can to reach those who we say we want to reach? Are we willing to change if change is the best option? These questions should not frighten us, they should invigorate us. And Mancini both asks and incites these questions throughout.

[David G · Rating 5 out of 5]

Same old, same old got you down? Not working for you? What if you did the same thing in a new way? Whta if you did something new in an old way? Or, what if you did something new in a new way?

This short book which you can read in a couple of hours can help you refocus on what you are doing or reimagine what you could do. The concepts are simple. The applications are endless.

Learn this simple toolkit and improve your ministry by fifty percent in the next ninety days.

[Gabe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mancini offers a combination of great questions and practical illustrations to stretch the reader’s thought processes. As a church plant pastor, having dived deeply into Mission/Vision/Values before reading this, I was encouraged to think more creatively about the results we desire in our context, rather than settling for recreating ministries we’ve seen done elsewhere in other seasons.

[Mitch Aldridge · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great little guide on how to practical innovate your discipleship process. Will’s stuff is always so useful. Well done!

[Matthew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Using the equation "1+2+4+16= ∞", Will Mancini challenges the reader to be a future designer (aka "original) rather than a fast follower (aka "copy"). Will's principles and practices have helped me in the past (every church leader needs to read "Church Unique"), so I thought I'd find some good stuff in this compact book on discipleship.

There was a lot of great insight (and a lot of it was visual so it's harder to share in this format), but here are a few thoughts that stayed with me:

"Some aspects of ministry DNA and vision should never change. Everything else should."

"I didn't write this book to help you maximize your existing model"

"Innovation is not always necessary and you should maximize what you are currently doing if it's working."

"The hardest model to change is the one that works"

[Joe McFadden · Rating 4 out of 5]

I first read Innovating Discipleship by Will Mancini in 2013 shortly after it was released. The book helped me think through some big picture questions to achieve the results we desired. Now recently I revisited and re-read this book to continue to challenge my paradigms and assumptions about where we are and where we are heading.

If you are a ministry leader looking to move beyond the cycle of same thing, same way then I encourage you to read this book and talk through these concepts with your team to decide the pathway that is best for your church in moving forward.

Read full review and summary here: http://joemcfadden.org/2016/04/05/inn...

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book for Pastors and church leadership to review as they develop or redesign the vision for the church. it is definitely a book that I am going to have to read again soon and make extensive notes. It is short enough that it is a one or two day read.

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some very useful, practical stuff here. The title is not an over-sell at all. Genuine pathways to true ministry innovation here.

[David Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Will Mancini helps us ask the right questions for maximizing, adapting, infusing, or creating church strategies and structures while maintaining a focus on our primary mission – making disciples.

[DAVID WILSON · Rating 5 out of 5]

Par Excellant ~ Will give you a new concept of what we all should being doing to help New Believers grow in Christ ! ! !

[Rand Hall · Rating 2 out of 5]

This seems like an annotated workshop presenter's guide. Probably great content in the interactive environment of a workshop. It didn't work for me in a standalone format.