The Craft of Disciplemaking (A Toolbox for Helping People Follow Jesus)

Move beyond programs and learn to shape lives with skill, care, and purpose.

Too often, disciplemaking in today’s church feels mechanical—reduced to programs, step-by-step guides, and fill-in-the-blank curriculums. But Jesus never intended discipleship to be an assembly line. In The Craft of Disciplemaking, seasoned ministry leader Bill Mowry invites believers to rediscover disciplemaking as a craft—a relational, skillful, and deeply personal practice shaped by care, patience, and spiritual wisdom.

With over fifty years of disciplemaking experience through The Navigators, Mowry (author of The Ways of the Alongsider) equips pastors, small group leaders, mentors, and everyday believers with a practical disciplemaking toolbox. With this intuitive discipleship model, readers will learn how to cultivate excellence, flexibility, and intentional care in mentoring others in their spiritual formation—transforming everyday ministry into a life-giving craft that shapes disciples for Christ.

In this book, you will:

• Learn six core principles of craftsmanship that bring excellence, patience, and intentionality to discipleship
• Build a practical toolbox of concrete practices to help you disciple others with wisdom and flexibility
• Find fresh motivation for ministry if you feel stuck in routine or discouraged in your disciplemaking efforts
• Gain confidence as an everyday believer that, with God’s help, you can effectively invest in the spiritual growth of others

Whether you’re a pastor, ministry leader, mentor, or committed follower of Christ who longs to invest in others, The Craft of Disciplemaking will help you transform disciplemaking from a program into a skillful, relational craft that shapes lives for eternity.