Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results

Publisher Marketing: Everyone is talking about discipleship, but too many churches stick to business as usual. Sunday comes and Sunday goes. The preacher preaches, the band worships, money gets put in the plate and people get back to their busy, unaffected lives. Hasn't God called us to more? Will Mancini thinks so, and that's what Innovating Discipleship is all about. Innovating Discipleship is for church leaders who have growing discontent for "best practicing" and "fast following." Is God calling you to re-dream and re-invent beyond the ministry models that were handed to you? If so, this short read will bolster your courage and stoke your imagination. In this potent book, Mancini uncovers the primary obstacle in the minds of pastors that keeps discipleship stuck - revealed through thousands of hours of coaching with church leaders. He calls it the "default vision switch." More importantly, Innovating Discipleship gives you a simple and powerful tool to guide you, step by step, into the freedom and confidence of real discipleship, for your time and your place. In the end, there are only four paths to getting the results you have always wanted. Which path will be right for you? Innovating Discipleship is Will Mancini's first book since releasing Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture and Create Movement. Contributor Bio:  Mancini, Will HEATHER STEVENS As a pastor's kid from small-town Granger, IN, Heather Stevens grew up behind-the-scenes of the local church. However, while her love of writing started early, her passion for the Church didn't develop until her late teen years. In college she interned for several different churches, including Granger Community Church and Cross Point Church. In 2013, when all the "20-somethings-areleaving-the-church" hype started, she realized she could do something about it. Everyone writing about the topic was 30 and older, and while most of them were well-respected leaders in the Church, she had something none of them had: the mindset of a 20-something. Heather graduated in 2015 with a bachelor's degree in Communications and currently resides in Nashville, TN, where she enjoys running, writing, and painting in her free time. WILL MANCINI Will Mancini wants you and your ministry to experience the benefits of stunning, God-given clarity. As pastor turned vision coach, Will has worked with an unprecedented variety of churches from growing megachurches and missional communities, to mainline revitalizations and church plants. He is the founder of Auxano and creator of visionroom.com. Will is the author of Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision and Create Movement and Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results. Will's style blends the best of three worlds: process thinking from the discipline of engineering, communications savvy as an ad agency executive, and practical theology as a pastoral leader. His education includes a ThM in Pastoral Leadership from Dallas Theological Seminary and a B. S. in Chemical Engineering from Penn State. Will has three children and lives in Houston with his wife, Romina. Will would enjoy hearing from you on Twitter and Facebook, and invites you to check out his blog as an additional resource. willmancini.com Twitter: willmancini facebook.com/claritywill Instagram: will_be_clear