{"product_id":"hand-to-the-plow-the-field-guide-for-everyday-disciple-makers","title":"Hand to the Plow: The Field Guide for Everyday Disciple-Makers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou've been sitting in the pew long enough. It's time to pick up the plow.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat if the reason the church isn't multiplying disciples has nothing to do with money, buildings, or better programs, and everything to do with the fact that nobody ever showed you \u003ci\u003ehow to follow the Jesus Pattern of disciple making\u003c\/i\u003e?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book is not for pastors. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Well, it might help them too. But that's not the point.)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is for the \u003cb\u003ebusiness owner\u003c\/b\u003e whose conversations at the water cooler feel like more than small talk, but who has never been shown what to do next. The \u003cb\u003estay-at-home mom\u003c\/b\u003e whose neighborhood looks more like a mission field every day, but who doesn't know how to step into it. The \u003cb\u003eyoung adult\u003c\/b\u003e who is completely done with a version of Christianity that asks them to \u003ci\u003ecome to church\u003c\/i\u003e but rarely trains them to \u003ci\u003ebe\u003c\/i\u003e the church.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's for the \u003cb\u003eburned-out volunteer\u003c\/b\u003e who has served faithfully for years and still feels like something essential is missing. The \u003cb\u003ebivocational elder\u003c\/b\u003e doing ministry in the marketplace every single day without a title or a paycheck. And it is absolutely for that \u003cb\u003e72-year-old woman\u003c\/b\u003e who has more wisdom, more relational capital, and more love than she gives herself credit for, who just needs someone to tell her that she already has \u003ci\u003eeverything she needs\u003c\/i\u003e to do what Jesus asked her to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHere's the honest truth nobody is saying out loud:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Western church has done a remarkable job of producing sincere, faithful, devoted believers. And a far less impressive job producing disciple-makers. The result? Pews full of people waiting for someone else to do what Jesus commissioned \u003ci\u003eall of us\u003c\/i\u003e to do. The Acts Gap is real, and it is not a passion problem. It is a pathway problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHand to the Plow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Kevin Beasley hands you the ancient pathway\u003c\/b\u003e, the one Jesus walked with twelve ordinary, unimpressive, unqualified people on the dusty roads of Galilee. The one Paul carried from city to city, leaving multiplying communities of faith everywhere he went. The one the early church practiced so naturally, so organically, with such breathtaking effectiveness that within three centuries the entire known world had been touched by it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt worked then. \u003cb\u003eIt still works now.\u003c\/b\u003e And it is not complicated. It is different from what most of us have been taught to expect from the Christian life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside, you'll discover:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to turn your everyday life, where you live, learn, work, and play, into a mission field that's already built and waiting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA clear, reproducible pathway from spiritual conversation to multiplying community, no budget, no building, no title required\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to use a Prayer Map to cut through the relational fog and turn names into Kingdom movements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy your spiritual gifting is not a personality test but God's Great Strategy, and how to function in it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Campfire Architecture of a gathering that grows disciples and multiplies naturally\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to build a multi-generational disciple-making network that outlasts you\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is not a church growth book. It is not a leadership manual. It is not a trendy new model.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a field guide. And a field guide is exactly what this moment needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe same Spirit who ignited 120 people in an upper room and launched a movement that turned the world upside down lives inside every person who has surrendered their life to Jesus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSame power. Same promise. Same commission.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe only thing missing is a pathway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLet's discover it together.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKevin E. Beasley is a domestic missionary, disciple-making practitioner, and founder of Our Best Story - a disciple-making network embedded in the places where everyday believers live, learn, work, and play.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51203842769181,"sku":"9798251896862","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9798251896862.jpg?v=1776975467","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/hand-to-the-plow-the-field-guide-for-everyday-disciple-makers","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}