Bobby Harrington is the executive director of Discipleship.org. He is the founding and lead pastor of Harpeth Christian Church (by the Harpeth River, just outside of Nashville, TN). He is an experienced church planter, coach of church leaders (through many years of ministry with Stadia and Church Coaching Solutions), and he is the author of several books on discipleship, including DiscipleShift that he co-wrote with Jim Putman and Robert E. Coleman, Dedicated: Training Your Children to Trust and Follow Jesus and Discipleship That Fits: The Five Kinds of Relationships God Uses to Help Us Grow, co-written with Alex Absalom.

Bobby has studied at such places as the University of Calgary, Harding School of Theology, Regent College (in Canada), Asbury Seminary, and Princeton University. He has a Doctor of Ministry degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Consulting (under Thom Rainer). He and his lovely wife Cindy have two grown children who trust and follow Jesus.

Bobby, along with Todd Wilson of the Exponential Network, founded Discipleship.org because they want to develop a central place for people to go when they need information and valuable tools that will help them live out the discipleship lifestyle.

SESSIONS

MAIN SESSION/FORUM 1: Leaving Cultural Christianity
Day / Time: Thursday, 10:00am — 11:30am
Location: Worship Center

Breakout 1: CALLED2LOVE: A Concentric Circle Model of Discipleship to Empower Great Commandment / Great Commission Living
• LOVE the LORD - Start at the Right Place. Is this where our new believer/new member discipleship starts or is it with doctrine, serving, attendance and tithing?
• LOVE NEIGHBORS - Start with the Right People. If discipleship IS NOT working at HOME then it DOES NOT "export" well! (the case for Relational Ministry strategies)
• LOVE on MISSION - Seeing people as God sees them: BOTH ALONE and FALLEN! (Which of these two can you and I do most about?)
Time: Thursday, 12:45pm – 1:45pm
Location: Room 2008 A/B

Breakout 2: DISCIPLING Others in a SPIRIT-EMPOWERED FAITH: The Forgotten Purpose of Truth!
• Rule #1 - If the treatment is killing the Patient, STOP the TREATMENT! PASTORS, limiting our Discipleship to a RATIONAL/BEHAVIORAL faith is KILLING the Church!
• Explore implications and strategies from the Relational Hermeneutic Jesus champions from Mt 22:40; Scripture has BOTH Objective Meaning AND Relational Significance; Discipleship OUTCOMES must be RELATIONAL and impossible to live apart from the work of the HOLY SPIRIT.
• Explore 40 Discipleship Outcomes and a Church-wide Assessment drawn from the Ephesians 4:12 calling to EQUIP SAINTS for works of MINISTRY/SERVING; Engage an Early Church Age-Stage process of discipleship that multiplied the Church dramatically across the known World.
Time: Thursday, 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Location: Room 2008 A/B

Breakout 3: The ACTS 2 JOURNEY: Mentoring Pastors and Churches in Taking ANY CHURCH to the NEXT LEVEL
• How is it that the First Century Church, without all the resources and tools we have, turned the world upside down but the 21st Century church seems to barely survive?
• Explore a proven mentoring strategy from Acts 2:42-47 to take Worship, Fellowship, Discipleship, Ministry and Evangelism to the Next Level
• Bring this 12-18 Month Journey to your community to see 65-70% of participating Churches GROW YOUNGER, LOOK MORE LIKE their NEIGHBORHOOD, PASS ON FAITH to NEXT GENERATIONS and ENGAGE MORE Jesus Followers in MISSIONAL LIVING.
Time: Thursday, 3:15pm – 4:15pm
Location: Room 2008 A/B

MAIN SESSION/FORUM 2: Shifting to Obedience Based Discipleship
Day / Time: Thursday, 4:30pm — 6:00pm
Location: Worship Center

MAIN SESSION/FORUM 3: Surrendering to King Jesus
Day / Time: Friday, 12:30pm — 2:00pm
Location: Worship Center

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