Spiritual transformation doesn't come from a sermon.

Dr. Tony Evans says even the best preaching is no substitute for a congregation committed to discipleship.

The purpose of the church is to cultivate an environment for transformation.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship

in Dallas, Texas, and president of the Urban Alternative.

Car Factories make cars, computer factories make computers, that's what they're designed

to do.

Well Dr. Evans says churches make disciples, that's their purpose and priority. Let's join him as he takes a close

up look at what a thriving ministry of discipleship entails.

Discipleship has been defined as that process of the local church to bring believers from spiritual infancy

to spiritual maturity so that they're able to repeat and replicate the

process with someone else. The goal of

of discipleship is spiritual transformation. The way you know you're becoming a

disciple is that you are changing. If you're not changing in attitudes and actions, character and conduct,

then you're not progressing as a disciple of Jesus Christ.

Many of God's children have deficiencies,

not because they're not perfect, but because they're not growing.

Disiporship is designed to facilitate spiritual development or growth.

And the primary ministry of the church is to provide a family environment for maximizing spiritual development or growth.

What good is it to have more people in the pews,

what good is it to have more people in the pews

but whose lives are not developing in the faith.

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