MARCS of a Disciple: A Biblical Guide for Gauging Spiritual Growth

by Robby Gallaty

“How can I know if my disciple-making efforts are effective? How can I know if people are growing spiritually?”

Have you ever asked these questions? If so, you are not alone. Many disciple-makers regularly struggle with these issues. While attendance and baptisms are easily counted, measuring the spiritual maturity of our people is not quite so simple. To make matters worse, an unfortunate reality of our day is that pastors are graded on how big their churches are and not how mature their people have become. Sadly, the American church has adopted business metrics to grow churches rather than biblical methods for growing disciples.

In MARCS of a Disciple, Pastor Robby Gallaty provides a biblical guide for gauging spiritual growth. Mature disciples are Missional, Accountable, Reproducible, Communal, and Scriptural. Use this book as a measuring stick to determine the health and effectiveness of disciple-making in your church and personal life. Jesus didn’t leave the maturity of his disciples to chance; neither should we.

Genres: Discipleship, Christian

138 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 3, 2016

Reviews

[Jack · Rating 5 out of 5]

First, I have to say that I am biased in that I really like Robby Gallaty and his passion for discipleship and have read much of what he has written on the subject. In this book, Robby lays out new metrics for measuring the success of a church. While many churches measure their success by nickels and noses or nodding heads during an invitation, Robby suggests that this is not what we should be measuring. D. L. Moody said that Christians should not just be counted by weighed. Robby has given us a fairly straight forward and easy scale to use to weigh the weight and measure the depth of believers. Used as a tool to investigate effectiveness of discipleship in small groups or even to measure your own spiritual growth, this book is a great tool.

[Ryan Reed · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent practical information.

[Breanna McFarland · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book except for the typos

[Sam Hapip · Rating 5 out of 5]

Worth the read! This book is a practical guide for Christians to gauge where they and those they are discipling are at in their journey.

[John Wilson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very practical and helpful. I was already inboard with his approach when I started the book, though.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

Content was great. However, it was very carelessly edited. Lots of typos, even in Scripture references. That was really distracting.

[William Kee]

Fantastic

Great way to simple barometer to help measure whether or not you are indeed a fully trained disciple. So thankful for this resource.