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The Great CoMission: Making Sense of Making Disciples
Author(s): Brooks St. Clair Morton (Author)
- Publisher: University Press of America (UK)
- Publication Date: 2 Nov. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 206 pages
- ISBN-10: 0761860177
- ISBN-13: 9780761860174
Book Description
This book presupposes that pastors and seminarians deeply desire to answer the question of all questions: how do I make disciples of Jesus Christ? The Great CoMission: Making Sense of Making Disciples is a helpful guide for pastors in the field, yet “meaty” enough for seminarians in the classroom. In The Great CoMission, readers will encounter useful principles for discipleship and solid biblical theology for ministry. This unique book approaches the Great Commission from a rite-of-passage framework, therefore allowing for serious consideration of the internal mechanisms of Matthew 28:16-20 by focusing on the relationship between initiation, instruction, and Jesus’ promise to be with the church to the end of the age. Morton writes from a Wesleyan, cross-cultural, and missiological perspective, avoiding the popular method of using the Great Commission merely as a holy launching pad for retelling the story of a mega church.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Brooks Morton has done us all a favor by combining exegetical skills with a fine biblical model of discipleship. . . . Not only a ‘must read’ but a ‘must do.’
Leaving nothing to chance, Brooks has done a fabulous job of integrating practical theology, rich spirituality, and life-giving accountability. I wouldn’t use any other approach to confirmation.
The church must make disciples or die. . . . This is one of the best books on discipleship I have ever read.
Understanding the basic mission of the church as a ‘co-mission’ with God has broad application across the age spectrum in local congregations. . . . [His] model in the appendix is worth the price of the book alone.
About the Author
Brooks St. Clair Morton is an ordained elder in the Northwest Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church and pastor of Idalou United Methodist Church. He holds a master of divinity degree and a master of theology degree in world mission and evangelism from Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky, as well as a master of arts degree in apologetics from Wesley Biblical Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi. He lives happily ever after with his wife, Kristin, and their three sons: Ethan, Wyatt, and J.D. You may follow the author on Twitter: @idaloumethodist.
