Growing Up
By Rob Gallaty with Randall Collins (Broadman/Holman)
Rob Gallaty’s book not only talks about discipleship, but also about disciples making disciples. He writes from personal experience.
David Platt, who wrote the book’s foreword, tells how when Platt taught a seminary class, he asked one of his students, Gallaty, to pray with him. Platt now is president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board, and Gallaty is disciplemaking pastor of Long Hollow Baptist Church in Hendersonville, Tenn., and president of Replicate Ministries.
Among Gallaty’s distinctive approaches is the D-Group, a small discipleship group. He believes it is better to have four or five in a D-Group rather than trying to disciple one-on-one.
Each chapter in this valuable book has one or more questions to consider. Every chapter includes a memory verse.
Don’t stop reading when you finish the final chapter. The back of the book is rich, as well. Appendices are related to the chapters in the book, and two bibliographies include virtually every book a disciplemaker should read to know more about discipleship.
This book is a must for every pastor, minister of education and/or discipleship and any Christian who believes in the need to make disciples.
Skip Holman, minister of discipleship
Northeast Baptist Church
San Antonio
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