06/18/2025 – “Best Practices of Disciple Making Churches” – 2025 National Disciple Making Forum – Highlights – May 7th and 8th, 2025 – Houston, Texas / Post 2 of 2
THE FOUR MISSION CRITICAL ELEMENTS
Practice #1: Convictional Leadership
Joey McLaughlin – “In top disciple making churches, all the leaders bleed intentional relational disciple making as their core mission – they are personally sold out to it.”
Practice #2 – Contextual Model
Ed Kang — “These churches rigidly hold to and prioritize their unique, “simple, effective, and reproducible” disciple making model.”
Practice #3 – Core Expectations
Jason Shepherd — “These leaders expect everyone in their church—high expectations indeed—to be engaged in disciple making and in their disciple making model.”
Practice #4 – Cultural Alignment
Shodankeh Johnson — These leaders focus everything in the church, down to a micro-level, on 1) missional, 2) theological, 3) philosophical, 4) organizational, and 5) relational alignment for disciple making.
The website link for this national May 2025 two day conference:
https://discipleship.org/national-disciple-making-forum/
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The 2026 national Decision Making Forum is scheduled again in Houston, April 15th and 16th, link below:
https://discipleship.org/2026-national-disciple-making-forum/
FYI – If you go to “Events” on the main menu, then Regional Disciple Making Conferences, you will see see a full agenda list including the one day Dallas conference on Sept 11th, 2025. (See post #1 of 2).
Check out the reviews, including this one on “best practices” :
“The National Disciple Making Forum is a unique event… bringing some of the best disciple-making ministries in the country together. Deeply motivating, very inspirational, and offering world-class training… I’d highly recommend bringing your whole team to make a life-changing investment in them.”
Soli Deo Gloria!