Transforming Discipleship: Making Disciples a Few at a Time Book

This was my first introduction to Ogden and I really liked it. He diagnosis why the church failing to make disciples and why our churches are famished because of it. This book rings with years of much thinking, praying, and practice in discipleship.

Where Coleman's The Master Plan of Evangelism gave the basic principles of discipleships, I think Ogden does a great follow-up to meat on those bones. He helps one takes discipleship from theory to reality.

One of the distinctives of Ogden's work is his critique of one-on-one discipleship. He is not completely against this method, but he gives five problems of it. I found myself agreeing with his conclusions and thus encouraged to try his method of triads (3 or maybe 4 people meeting together). He has also developed a discipleship curriculum which has been around for many years called Discipleship Essentials: A Guide to Building Your Life in Christ that these groups can use. This book is well-balanced between an argument for discipleship and a plan for implementing discipleship.