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David Watson's 'Contagious Disciple Making': Part 1

This is a book review of the above good book. Two reasons why you should pack it along with your crocs or flip-flops this summer! 1. ‘Disciple-Makers Embrace Lessons Taught by Failure’ Often, without realising it, mission-workers bring a lot of cultural and denominational baggage with them. We naturally tend to reproduce ourselves and our churches, but what we are aiming for is to produce followers of Jesus. David says, 'God taught me, through many failures, that I had to focus on making disciples of Christ, not followers of my church or denomination. He also taught me that I needed to teach these disciples to obey the commands of Jesus, not my Church/denominational doctrines or traditions.' His focus is on Disciple-Making Movements and Church-Planting Movements instead of working in one small area and carrying out one small church plant. The work may be slow at first but once it takes off there is much fruit, and many indigenous churches are planted. Disciples are