Jay Y. Kim
Serving and leading in the local church in our post-everything world feels eminently complex. We need wise guides to help us down the path toward better days ahead. My friend Daniel Im’s new book is such a guide. Leaning on years of pastoral and leadership experience, along with his distinctive warmth, humility, and deep love for the local church and its leaders, The Discipleship Opportunity is inspiring, accessible, and, maybe most importantly, a practically helpful and applicable tool for church leaders in almost any context. This is a book for our time and for the seasons ahead.
Steve Carter
There is an invitation that awaits us. Even after all humanity has endured, Daniel Im has a way with words and a Kingdom vision to change adversity into opportunity. In Daniel’s latest book, The Discipleship Opportunity, he bravely guides you in such thoughtful and accessible ways to better reach, preach to, and disciple your people in the way of Jesus. A must-read!
Tony Morgan
There’s no doubt about it—our world is very different now than it used to be, which means the mission field of every church has changed as well. Rather than blaming our post-pandemic, post-Christian culture, we need to embrace the opportunity to revisit how we engage the gospel mission. It really is an opportunity. It’s a privilege. It’s our calling. By the time you finish this book, I hope my friend Daniel Im will have convinced you it’s time to revisit how to lead, teach, and engage the mission of helping people meet and follow Jesus.
Ed Stetzer
The big lesson of the last few years is that our discipleship has not held—that far too many people were being discipled by their cable news and spiritually shaped by their social media. That’s part of why I am thankful that my friend Daniel Im wrote this book. He recognizes the problem, but he does more—he analyzes it with precision and offers indispensable insight into how to move forward for evangelism, discipleship, and preaching. The title is right. We have an opportunity; let’s seize it!
Kyle Idleman
Too often we try to lead churches with erroneous assumptions and misguided practices when what we really need is to trust the Holy Spirit. Nevertheless, we must work to develop a strong aptitude and strong attitude for pastoring and learn to never give up. In The Discipleship Opportunity, Daniel Im reveals many ways to engage the sleepers, seekers, and consumers in your church—how to entice and equip them on the discipleship path. He charts the promise Jesus makes to us all to live “life to the full.”
Alan Hirsch
Daniel Im has long been a significant voice in church planting and mission circles. Now he brings a lot of experience leading a generative church network in the increasingly secular Canadian context into the equation. The result is a book with gravitas and insight for our times.
Jessie Cruickshank
“Kindly confrontational” was the phrase that came to mind as I read The Discipleship Opportunity. In this book, Daniel challenges us to face our assumptions about how a church grows. With practical ideas and a simple tool, he shares concrete steps every church pastor can take to minister to the people in their church and beyond.
Sean Morgan
Provocative! This book, a must-read for any church leader, is the first book to give context and strategy to the post-pandemic “future church.” Daniel not only challenges the status quo but also provides practicable solutions for your church! Read this book, go through it with your team, and implement its recommendations.
Dr. Tammy Dunahoo
Over the last several decades, church leaders have packed a lot of ideas, assumptions, methods, and mindsets into their travel bag to accomplish our God-given mission to make disciples. The basic equipment we were commissioned to carry by the Leader of the missional journey has become weighted down with ill-fitting garments and accoutrements. Daniel has done the hard work of unpacking the cultural extras, leaving the essentials for traveling lightly. He has done so not with a theorist’s ideology but as a practitioner. This book is refreshing—and, frankly, relieving! A must-read for every weary traveler.
Brad Lomenick
Daniel Im sees where we need to go as leaders and presents us with a path to get there. In his latest book, The Discipleship Opportunity, he offers a compelling, practical, timely, and biblical framework for leading, discipling, and preaching differently yet effectively in today’s post-everything, complicated world.
Sam Chan
In a world rocked by pandemics, wars, and weather events, Daniel Im’s The Discipleship Opportunity is the guide for Christian leaders in this post-everything era. Im’s book is punchy, insightful, and practical. Whether you’re a rookie or a seasoned leader, Im’s wisdom will equip you to lead and challenge others along the discipleship pathway.
Bobby Harrington
Daniel Im has provided a gentle overview of a better pathway for discipleship in the local church. This book demonstrates the insights and skill of a pastor who is focused on disciplemaking. Recommended for senior pastors and leadership teams.
Aubrey Sampson
What does it actually mean to be a pastor in a post-pandemic world? What does it mean to be the church in a post-everything society? Pastor and author Daniel Im is seeking to answer those questions. But rather than giving us a post-pandemic book, or offering a new hot take on church models, Im provides church leaders with hope, guidance, and a beautiful Jesus-way forward. With a deep love for his audience, the church, and Jesus, Im has managed to create more than a playbook for discipleship; his words breathe new life into dry bones.
Dave Ferguson
In The Discipleship Opportunity, author Daniel Im confronts head-on the current church realities of declining attendance, political conflict, and racial tension. In response, Im provides a framework that moves beyond the Sunday-gathering model and shows leaders how to develop genuine disciples that meet Jesus on a deep and meaningful level. The remarkable insights in The Discipleship Opportunity have the power to ignite a movement where God’s people take His love into the world in an authentic, life-changing way!
