Deep People
This month, I received Going Deep by Gordon MacDonald. The basic principle is that today's church leaders need to invest in creating disciples, or deep people, who will impact the church and become tomorrow's church leaders. Following the rabbinical example that Christ set and applying some business principles, like an elevator story, a training plan and lots of meetings, Gordon tells a fictional account of how his church began to cultivate deep people in their church community over a two year period, from the birth of the idea to the actual completion of their first training program. The book takes some patience to get into. It felt like it started kind of slow. Maybe it was because I felt like I was missing something because I hadn't read his other book. It also felt strange because I knew that he was presenting a real idea in a fictional way. I never could figure out if he had actually put the type of mentoring that he portrays ...