Alice Matagora - How to Save the World: Disciplemaking Made Simple

Disciplemaking has been an undercurrent of the research we do at Barna from the beginning. Thats because disciplemaking was the original last call from Jesus to his followersthe thing were each meant to do as we walk with Jesus. The research our team conducted alongside this book demonstrates the urgency of a renewed commitment and imagination for the basic Christian practice of inviting people into a life with Christ.

DAVID KINNAMAN, president, The Barna Group

With honesty and humility, Alice Matagora encourages believers to be engaged in disciplemaking in their everyday, normal lives. This is the need of the hour. Using helpful information from Barna and employing her training as a therapist, she shows how vital and yet how accessible it is for every believer. If you find yourself a bit hesitant to disciple others, this book will encourage and instruct you to be the disciplemaker you were saved to become.

ED STETZER, P H D, professor and dean, Wheaton College

A book on disciplemaking with sass. With groundbreaking research from Barna, How to Save the World helps us demystify the concept of disciplemaking for the twenty-first century. Alice Matagora interweaves case studies, statistics, and personal anecdotes to offer a useful introductory guide for Christians of all ages on how to create a lineage of faith from one generation to the next. Great for small-group study!

MICHELLE AMI REYES, vice president, Asian American Christian Collaborative; scholar in residence, Hope Community Church; author of Becoming All Things: How Small Changes Lead to Lasting Connections Across Cultures

Alice has masterfully condensed the practice of making disciples into an understandable, step-by-step process. Incorporating current Barna research data, she presents a practical and holistic worldview of disciplemaking within cultural, ethnic, and non-majority people groups. I strongly recommend this book for all believers looking to put their faith into Great Commission action.

MARVIN CAMPBELL, US Navigators President

This practical and inspiring book demystifies what discipleship is and motivates people to start making disciples, no matter who they are or what they do. Whether you have been following Jesus for five months or fifty years, you will find helpful insights to help you get started, overcome barriers, or become more effective in making disciples. This easy-to-read book is a gem that you will refer to again and again, as you partner with God. Right where you are.

JOYCE KOO DALRYMPLE, pastor of discipleship and attorney

How to Save the World is a phenomenal resource for normal Christians who know and sense that more is possible in their everyday lives. It is a simple (not simplistic) primer on discipleship and disciplemaking that is both a call to action and a how-to kit. It lays out not only the why of disciplemaking (and how the church has lost its way) but also lots of practical insights into how to become a disciplemaker. This book, quite simply, can radically change someones Christian life. It is a phenomenal primer on disciplemaking and a much-needed resource for a church badly in need of a disciplemaking reformation.

BRANDON COOK, executive director of Named Ministries; author of Learning to Live and Love Like Jesus; coauthor of The Cost of Cheap Grace

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How to Save the World: Disciplemaking Made Simple

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Five Traits of a Disciplemaker The Navigators 2015. Taken from Five Traits of a Christ-Follower by Doug Nuenke. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

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This book is dedicated to RJ, my best friend and partner in life,

and to my children of promise, Regi and Clementine.

For the good of generations to come.

Then Jesus came to [his disciples] and said, All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.

MATTHEW 28:18-20

You can always disciple one person.

A mentor first told me this nearly two decades ago when I was a college student. And then, when I started training as a campus ministry intern in my first job out of college, I heard it again and again. Of course! One person. How hard could that be?