Excerpt from "The Secret to a Great Preaching Ministry":
"'I believe that there's an easy test to measure success in discipleship, and we don't have to look any further than Jesus to find it. It took Jesus three years to make twelve disciples, right?'
"'Right.'
"'He walked with them; He ate with them; He cried with them; He prayed with them; He ministered to them; He challenged them. Then, after He ascended, they went out into the world and did what He had done over the three years. He'd made disciples, and so they did the same. You see, it is so simple: The test of whether you have made a disciple is if your disciple goes out and makes a disciple of his own.' ...
"'So, if I hear what you're saying, any shortcut in the process is going to produce a crop of disciples who don't pass anything on?'
"'Exactly,' Jared said. 'If your grandfather taught your father to fish, and he taught you, but you get your son an instructional video, then what is he going to do with his son? I fear that, as the church, we're encouraging our people to use sermons and books and videos as tools for discipleship instead of the blood, sweat, and tears of their own lives. It's a one-on-one, long-term kind of thing. For Jesus, discipling meant spending time with people. That's part of what we need to do to truly follow Him.'"
