Dann Spader - 4 Chair Discipling: What He Calls Us to Do

Of all the disciplers I know, my friend Dann Spader is at the top of the list. He disciples with his life, through his seminars and workshops, and now, thankfully, through this powerful book. Highly recommended!

JOE STOWELL | President, Cornerstone University | Grand Rapids, Michigan

Few people have the reputation of Dann Spaderwith a lifes passion for making disciples. Now in 4 Chair Discipling, Dann challenges us to walk more faithfully in Jesus calling. Read and dwell on this helpful book.

ED STETZER | President, LifeWay Research

Dann Spaders giftedness and knowledge have been a huge help to Southeast Christian Church. His 4 Chair Discipling can be an enormous benefit to your church as well. Learn to make disciples who make disciples by studying how Jesus modeled it for all of us. Its a journey youll want to take!

DAVE STONE | Senior Pastor, Southeast Christian Church | Louisville, Kentucky

Dann Spader and Sonlife played a part in our journey here at Real Life to discover a reproducible discipleship model that would work in a church. Dann has been committed to doing discipleship Jesus way, and he has inspired many to follow suit. For those who have listened it has been life and ministry-changing. He is one of the voices that should be heard in a church culture badly in need of Jesus and His methods for discipleship. I encourage you to read what he has to write.

JIM PUTMAN | Senior Pastor, Real Life Ministries | Post Falls, Idaho

Who could deny that the responsibility to make disciples would be at the top of the list of what Jesus wants/commands His people to do?

Yet, who would deny that most of us dont know quite what that is or how to do it? Dann Spaders 4 Chair Discipling blends rich biblical instruction and insight along with skilled and fruitful experience to help Christians understand and embrace the call to make disciples.

Following Jesus requires this of us, and Spaders work provides hope and confidence in understanding how Jesus would have us to proceed.

BRUCE A. WARE | Professor of Christian Theology, Southern Seminary | Louisville, Kentucky | Author of The Man Christ Jesus: Theological Reflections on the Humanity of Christ

Dann Spader has taken the popular concept of servant leadership and created a very practical and sustainable method for discipling people to actually BECOME servant leaders. Spaders 4 Chair Discipling is a highly effective way to model and implement Jesus approach and command for making disciples. This work is much needed, long overdue, and could serve as a core approach for discipling and apprenticing in any growing ministry or church.

JON FERGUSON | Community Christian Church | Naperville, Illinois | New Thing Network

My friend Dann Spader is passionate about making disciples. And his latest book, 4 Chair Discipling, captures a simple and powerful way to become more effective in making this happen. I highly commend it to you.

JOSH MCDOWELL | Author of more than eighty books including More Than a Carpenter and New Evidence that Demands a Verdict

Dann Spader has spent a lifetime studying, coaching, and carrying out Jesus call to make disciples. In 4 Chair Discipling, he explores the disciple-making methods Jesus used and shows how they are still the prototype for today. With powerful aha analogies and illustrations, he presents a biblical and practical pathway and template for making disciples. If you want to become a better disciple maker, this book is a must-read.

LARRY OSBORNE | Author and Pastor, North Coast Church | Vista, California

For over 30 years, Dann Spader has been a bold and clear voice calling the church to a disciple-making movement and not just programmatically producing disciples. The 4 Chair Discipling book is refreshing, informative, and practical in helping us see disciple-making in the simple genius of Jesus and His way of life in making disciples who make disciples. This is a must-read for pastors, church leaders, and families.

FRITZ DALE | Executive Director, Reach National | Evangelical Free Church

Dann Spader is passionate about walking as Jesus walked! In 4 Chair Discipling you will be encouraged and inspired to do what Jesus did. This is one of the most practical books Ive read on how to multiply disciples. It will instruct and inspire you to walk like Christ!

KEN ADAMS | Senior Pastor, Crossroads Church and President, Impact Ministries | Newnan, Georgia

Through a careful study of the life of Christ over the past 40 years, Dann Spader has captured Jesus strategy of making disciples. 4 Chair Discipling is not theory, it is what Dann has been living for over 30 years of ministry. Drawing a distinction between disciple-making and discipleship, this book is a must-read for any pastor, youth pastor, small group leader or Christian leader serious about fulfilling the Great Commission.

DR. BOB MACRAE | Professor of Youth Ministry, Moody Bible Institute

I happen to believe the church in North America has grown increasingly inward, often untethering our spiritual life from our mission. As I read my friend Danns book, I found myself praying: God, give me and us this vision, passion, and clarity for making disciples who make disciples. Dann is spot on and prescribes exactly what we need. Thanks, Dann, for putting your finger on first things and arguing biblically and specifically about what making disciples looks like in practice.

ROB BUGH | Senior Pastor, Wheaton Bible Church | Wheaton, Illinois

As a pastor of a lifegroup church in Atlanta, I look forward to all my leaders going through Dann Spaders new book 4 Chair Discipling. Its a winner! Just what Ive been waiting forpractical, fast-moving, biblical, interactive, missional, and life-giving.

FRED HARTLEY | Lead Pastor and Author of God on Fire | Tucker, Georgia

Danns passion for growing a disciple-making movement comes through loud and clear in his book 4 Chair Discipling. His passion for people to know the real Jesus compels the reader to want to be a part of a disciple-making community. If you take the Great Commission seriously, then read the book.

DR. MARK A. HOEFFNER | Executive Director, CB Northwest | Teaching Pastor, Grace Baptist Church | White Salmon, Washington

Making disciples can get confusing and complicated. So many books, theories, and programs can leave people wondering where to start. But Dann has articulated in a simple way how every person and every church can begin to make disciples like Jesus made disciples. With just four chairs, you will be equipped to move people along their way to walking as Jesus walked.

We use the four-chair strategy in our church, and it has given us a new language to talk about disciple-making and a simple tool to cast vision. I highly recommend this resource to any leader who wants to ignite movements by making disciples.

CRAIG ETHERIDGE | Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church | Colleysville, Texas

Dr. Dann Spader has been a global force for the cause of Christian disciple-making. 4 Chair Discipling provides a simple, easily transferable, and proven method for discipling that can be used by pastors, youth workers, and volunteers in a wide range of cultural contexts. This book will help Christian leaders succeed in the primary purpose of their work: to make disciples of Christ.