Think big, Start small, Go deep.

Discipling: (David Mathis, Habits of Grace)

One memorable refrain I’ve heard over and over again in Campus Outreach circles is “think big, start small, go deep.”

Think big: God’s global glory, among all the nations.

Start small: focus on a few , like Jesus did.

Go deep: invest at depth in those few, so deeply that they will be equipped and prepared to do the same in the lives of others.

Good disciplemaking requires both intentionality and relationality. It means being strategic and being social. Most of us are bent one way or the other. We’re naturally relational, but lacking in intentionality. Or we find it easy to be intentional, but not relational. We typically tip (or sometimes lean) one way or the other as we begin the disciplemaking process.

But tipping and leaning won’t cover the full picture of what life-on-life disciplemaking requires. It’s not just friend-to-friend, and it’s not just teacher-to-student. It’s both. There is the sharing of ordinary life (relationship) and seeking to initiate and make the most of teachable moments (intentionality). There are the long walks through Galilee and the sermons on the mount.

Disciplemaking is both organic and engineered, relational and intentional, with shared context and shared content, quality and quantity time.