The Vision
Jesus changed the world through ordinary people (Acts 4:13). The church is rich in ordinary resources. We must have a fundamental change in our thinking to equip “everyday” disciples in the work of making disciples who make disciples. Churches and church leaders may need help in training and mobilizing the people to be disciples who make disciples.
This site is dedicated to providing resources on the individual (Ordinary School) and congregational level (Ordinary Church) to train people to make disciples. There are articles, tools, videos, and (if needed) coaching to help you grow as a disciple maker.
I cannot think of a greater calling than changing people’s lives by helping them come to Jesus to follow Jesus, be changed by Jesus and be on the mission of Jesus (as Putman and Harrington so aptly pointed out from Matthew 4:19).
Let’s do this together. You are not alone!
If you feel the call to disciple but don’t know where to start, please use the email button to send a message to me and I will be sure to respond.
Meet Matt
God brought together a group of people in a neighborhood who all felt the burden to take a stressful time and turn it into a blessing. Backyard church was born in pandemic. In addition to church planting, Matt disciples people with Jesus-style disciple making, creates content here and on YouTube and is passionate about helping people learn to make disciples who make disciples who plant churches. Matt works part-time for discipleship.org running online content. He also develops courses on discipleship and disciple making for several Christian universities.
Discipleship tools
This site provides free tools to get you started making disciples.
Free Bible Studies
There are thousands of pages of free Bible studies you download from the site that you can use for your own study or to disciple others.
Coaching
Matt provides coaching in simple, reproducible discipleship and church planting. We will have more details on this soon!
Online Courses
We are developing a series of online courses to get the bulk of the disciple making and church planting in your hands so you can learn from anywhere and do it at your own pace.
Your Dream. Our Mission.
We believe God can use anyone to make disciples & Plant Churches
None of Jesus’ disciples had formal training. None of them had degrees in ministry. What they did have was Jesus! In Acts 4 the Sanhedrin couldn’t deny the impact of these men…they were “unschooled and ordinary” but they had “been with Jesus.” God has always used ordinary people to grow His kingdom! He wants to start with you.
