A common topic in churches is how to keep people engaged and growing spiritually. It takes more than getting them to come to church each week and sitting through a service. Justin G. Gravitt aims to tackle this topic and help church leaders form a plan to not only get people coming, but to help them grow and mature.

The book is not intended to be one of the stereotypical "follow my plan and I guarantee you'll see results," books. Gravitt first outlines what the problem is, how churches need to build a good foundation for Christians to allow for solid growth that will hold fast in times of trouble. Having laid this foundation for the book, he moves on to building not a program, but an entire culture of making disciples.

Each part of the book is clear and simple to read. Leaders at all levels of a church can begin to put the concepts into use and work together to for disciples. The final chapter provides a plan for building a team that has discipleship as its goal. To form a culture, it is vital that everyone is committed to the goal. This book is a great read for any church that wants to help its members grow.

I received a free ARC of the book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

While I'm not sitting in the position to enact this in a local church, I can definitely see the value of starting such a disciple making culture. We are all called to make disciples, so I'd love for more churches to become more purposeful in how they do this. There are many books on this topic, and this one is an excellent addition to those.

Are churches called to disciplemaking? What does that look like? How does one think in terms of disciplemaking?

In The Foundation of a Disciplemaking Culture, Justin G. Gravitt focuses on the principles for developing this kind of culture in your church. He particularly highlights the need for casting vision and ensuring that a disciplemaking culture maintains momentum beyond the first and second generation.

Discipleship in the church has been coming up a lot in my reading lately. This book in particularly is great for casting vision and reminding all of us about the Great Commission. Jesus' commission was to the church... not the church leaders, not the scholars, but the whole church. So if we're called to imitate Christ, then disciplemaking needs to be in our DNA as well. Gravitt's book reminds readers that discipleship is should be the basic core of church life. This really is a great read for living and serving like Jesus did.

*Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book from the author. All opinions are my own.

Churches need to more emphasize the culture of disciple-making. The Foundation of a Disciplemaking Culture can be such a help to lay the groundwork for a disciplemaking movement in church. This is what churches nowadays need.