DISCIPLESHIP CHESS

I play chess almost every day because I love the game and it reminds me of a few things about the discipleship ministry I developed in 2008 and is written in my book Simple Discipleship.

Thom Rainer and Erik Geiger in Simple Church challenged church leaders to simplify ministry and focus on making disciples which is the command in the Great Commission. Taking them up on the challenge, the result is a reproducible, contextual, biblical, and cross-denominational discipleship structure on which leaders may build their disciple-making ministry. The fact that varying sized churches representing virtually all of the evangelical denominations have used and/or are using Simple Discipleship shows the achievement of the goals listed in the previous sentence.

 

The proof…look on the internet and see how many church logos or denominational logos look similar to the colorful Simple Discipleship brand. That being said, there are many churches that have succeeded as they launched Simple Discipleship and here are several reasons that relate to chess:

1. They remained focused on Jesus and the biblical mandate to make disciple-makers, not just converts.
2. They simplified their ministries by aligning or eliminating anything that does not contribute to making disciple-makers.
3. They stuck to their strategy of leading change instead of managing the status quo which is what many churches do.
4. They moved carefully but deliberately to develop urgency, buy-in, and momentum for change.
5. They prayed and anticipated the actions and reactions of the opposition; not only Satan but also undiscipled Christians who are more concerned about what they want than about seeing more people know Christ.
6. They accepted as few and small losses as possible while taking big gains by making discipled warriors.
7. They did not run Simple Discipleship as a program that has an end but maintained it as a disciple-making process and will only declare “checkmate” when Jesus returns.

I take chess seriously but making disciple-makers is the most important activity for all Christians.

Dr. Tom Cocklereece is CEO of RENOVA Coaching and Consulting, LLC. He has 20 years experience as a pastor, and is an author, certified professional coach and coach trainer, leadership specialist, and a member Coach/Teacher/Speaker for the John Maxwell Team

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