The Making of a Disciple - Softcover

Keith W. Phillips

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800711815 ISBN 13: 9780800711818

Publisher: World Impact Press, 1981

Synopsis

The Making of a Disciple will guide you toward Jesus' standard of commitment and equip you to reproduce that standard in others. With a practical, systematic approach, Dr. Phillips details Christ's mandate to make disciples through long-term, one-on-one relationships

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Keith Phillips was the President of World Impact, a Christian missions organization dedicated to ministering God's love to the inner cities of America. He is a dynamic Christian leader and a forceful, thought-provoking speaker who has appeared on The 700 Club, the Trinity Broadcasting Network, and Focus on the Family. He is a Conference Speaker with Promise Keepers.

Dr. Phillips is the author of They Dare to Love the Ghetto, No Quick Fix and Out of Ashes, which chronicles the history of the urban poor in America and explores their present needs and future hope.

For 42 years, Keith has ministered to people from all walks of life. For six years, he served as a club director for Los Angeles Youth for Christ. He currently supervises World Impact's inner-city ministries in 10 cities and four camps.

Dr. Phillips received his Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA and his Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary. He received the Doctor of Humane Letters from John Brown University, and the Doctor of Humane Letters from Sterling College.

A nationally-recognized authority on inner-city ministries, Dr. Phillips serves on the Board of the Christian Community Development Association. A distinguished and inspiring speaker, he delivered the Commencement Address to the 1969 and 1991 graduating classes of Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas, the 1990 graduating class of John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, and the 2002 graduating class of Sterling College in Sterling, Kansas.

Keith is the youngest son of Dr. Frank C. Phillips, a founder of Youth for Christ International (YFC), who, for 12 years, directed YFC in Portland, Oregon, and later co-founded World Vision International. Keith was ordained to the Gospel ministry at the First Baptist Church of Van Nuys and is listed in Who's Who in Religion, Who's Who in the West, and Who's Who in America. He is Chairman of the Los Angeles Mayor's Prayer Breakfast. Keith lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Katie. They have three sons, Joshua, Paul and David; and six grandchildren, Nicholas, Jack, Olivia, Luke, Katie and Matthew.

Review:

What exactly is the New Testament concept of discipleship? Does it have any relevance for Christians today?

The rigors of inner-city ministry forced Keith Phillips to confront these issues head on. For, as he frankly admits, "I had hundreds of notches on my evangelistic belt, but I could not locate one maturing Christian. I had proclaimed the gospel, but I had failed to make disciples."

His conclusion: nurturing believers to spiritual maturity was the object of Christ's earthly ministry and should be the overriding concern for the Church today. The Making of a Disciple details how you can accomplish that goal through long-term, one-on-one relationships.
Speaking from the authority of Scripture and the evidence of changed lives, Dr. Phillips translates the New Testament vision into precise guidelines for effective discipling.

The Making of a Disciple will help you define and achieve Jesus' standard of maturity in your life - and enable you to spiritually reproduce that standard in the life of someone else. --The Urban Ministry Institute of Los Angeles

About this edition

• Publisher: World Impact Press
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0800711815
• ISBN 13: 9780800711818
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 157