TY - MANSCPT AU - Bates,Dennis H TI - A study of the effectiveness of disciplemakers4Jesus: a long term, reproducible, discipleship strategy for spiritual growth from the gospel of Matthew and 2 Timothy AV - BV4070.B329.S783 2011 PY - 2011/// KW - Christian life KW - Discipling (Christianity) KW - Case studies KW - Spiritual formation KW - Evangelistic work N1 - 1; CD-R, PDF file; 2 N2 - This study sought to discover the experiences of eight men who were participants in a ministry called DiscipleMakers4Jesus (DM4J) and assess their perspectives as it pertained to their own spiritual growth during their year of intensive discipleship training. It was important to understand the effectiveness of DM4J as it pertained to the spiritual lives of not only these eight men, but of all thirty two men who were participants duirng the years between 2006-2010 Each man learned about the importance of not only what made a disciple of Jesus an effective one, but also was encouraged to become a disciple maker for Jesus ER -