Building a Disciple Making Church: One-to-One, Scripture, and Multi-Generational Ministry
In this session, Matt Wilson shares how Ecclesia Christian Church grew over 11 years from a living-room gathering to more than 2,000 weekly attendees by centering everything on discipleship and community rather than platform-building or treating churches as stepping stones. He emphasizes loyalty to where God places leaders, warns against rushing small groups without qualified leadership, and advocates one-to-one discipleship, slow leader development, and resisting “terrorist” pressure tactics from demanding members. Ecclesia built clear pathways (DNA/core classes), discipleship-oriented serving teams, and an annual Easter-to-Pentecost churchwide 40-day disciple-making initiative with prayer, fasting, meals, and baptisms. Tina describes “Step Into Scripture,” a reproducible whole-Bible, yearly reading and table-leader model that builds biblical literacy across the body. They highlight integrating all generations, empowering students (including “Student Takeover”), and honoring every ability through ministries like Shine for special needs, aiming to equip the church to reproduce disciples.
00:00 Welcome and Warmup
00:54 Discipleship First Church
02:56 Faithfulness Over Platforms
05:27 Small Places Big Impact
06:44 Groups Versus One to One
08:49 Slow Leadership Pipeline
12:02 Serve Teams as Discipleship
13:20 Forty Day Churchwide Push
15:23 Step Into Scripture Model
21:07 One Body All Generations
25:01 Special Needs Shine Ministry
28:35 Maturity Milk and Meat
31:59 Discipleship Come With Me
36:03 Panel Family Culture QandA
45:51 Empowering Youth Takeover
50:31 Women and the Word
51:38 Closing Affirmation
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