This is Part 3 of a look at 3DM, Sonlife and the Bonhoeffer Project.
You can see Part 1 Here
You can See Part 2 Here

Here is my summary and overview of Sonlife Ministries:

I. Key websites:
Sonlife.com: Primary website
Live26.org: Their “learning community” website
4chairdiscipling.com: Related to the book, free small group videos

II. Key books:
Read by me:
Growing a Healthy Church
4 Chair Discipling
Previous Sonlife training material
Skimmed:
Walking as Jesus Walked
Discipling as Jesus Discipled
See http://store.sonlife.com/ for more resources

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This is Part 2 of a look at 3DM, Sonlife and the Bonhoeffer Project.

You Can See Part 1 Here. 

Here is my summary and overview of 3DM:

I. Key websites:
3dmovements.com: The primary 3DM site
vimeo.com/weare3dm: 3DM video channel
disciplingculture.com: Mike Breen’s website
3dmpublishing.com: Books and resources

II. Key books:
Read by Me:
Building a Discipling Culture
Leading Missional Communities
Empowering Missional Disciples
See http://3dmpublishing.com/library/ for other key books
“Our core books, following the trajectory of the Learning Communities, each build on the content established in the previous books. They are the following: Building a Discipling Culture, Multiplying Missional Leaders, Leading Missional Communities, Leading Kingdom Movements.”

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I recently did a comparison of Mike Breen’s 3DM, Sonlife Ministries (Dann Spader) and the Bonhoeffer Project started by Bill Hull and Brandon Cook. 

I’m going to share the results of that comparison in several posts: One for introductory matters, one for each of the ministries and one by way of conclusion.

Please feel free to offer your feedback and personal experiences with these ministries, as well as others that should be reviewed.

Overview

The introduction gives the purpose of this document, the research process, the metrics being considered and a confession of biases.

Each approach is then summarized, with their respective lists of key websites, books and trainings offered, as well as a summary of notable points utilizing quotes from each ministry’s resources.

There is then a short comparison of the three approaches, highlighting similarities and differences, and suggesting that 3DM is marked by pragmatism, Sonlife by strategy, and Bonhoeffer Project (BP) by theology.

The final section, Conclusions, notes things each would be great at, the gifts they bring to the Body, their Achilles heels, and a summary of each based on the metrics used.

This section, and the document as a whole, ends with a list of residual thoughts and questions.

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