Membership to Discipleship: How a Book Was Born

November 2, 2015

By Phil Maynard

I am very excited to share that on November 20^th, we are officially launching a new book, called Membership to Discipleship.  This book is the product of many years of work with the leaders of individual congregations across the United States—it is, in a very real sense, the culmination of my journey of exploring how churches can be healthy and proactive in living out God’s love in the world.

I have facilitated literally hundreds of work sessions in which struggling churches have explored how they can shift from being congregations in decline to becoming vibrant bodies of believers who are renewed in their passion to answer Christ’s call.  These experiences inspired the creation of my first book, Shift, which defined the ways in which congregations needed to shift their thinking and practices if they wanted to embrace renewa