Book review: Stride: Creating a discipleship pathway for your church

The authors identify several signs of unsuccessful attempts or limited achievements in disciple-making strategies, including a high turnover of newcomers, an inability to fill volunteer positions, events that focus more on fellowship than outreach, the poor state of church finances, and long-term members who become disgruntled and leave over minor or insignificant issues. [...]Part III (“Sustaining the discipleship pathway”) addresses components related to the ongoing maintenance and care for the growth of the process. [...]the various pathways (path of discipleship, path of leadership, serving pathway, and giving pathway), each with their own set of terms, make the strategy seem somewhat cumbersome and unwieldy.