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Hello and welcome to my Servant-Leader Discipleship Blog! I’m Juan M. Vallejo, and it’s an honor to make your acquaintance. I hope you will often read, be blessed, and bless others while you grow in love for the work of service! Let’s begin!

For my doctoral project, I wrote a book entitled “Servant-Leader Discipleship: Equipping people to grow in love for the work of service.” In this book, I share proven insights to help those who want to reproduce an infinite number of servant-leader disciples empowered to change the world in Jesus’ name. I write about how “Servant-leader discipleship produces extraordinary lives because it teaches people to commit their lives to the great commandment and the great commission.”*

The Great Commandment: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it; you shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets” (Matthew 22:37-40, NASB).

The Great Commission: “And He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation” (Mark 16:15, NASB). “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations…” (Matthew 28:19a, NASB).

Love for God and People, Motivates Us to Discover, Develop, and Deploy Servant-Leader Disciples of Jesus Christ.

DISCOVER: “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10, NASB). Therefore, “servant-leader disciple-makers must recognize they are joining Jesus on His search and rescue mission. Those who are lost need to be found, rescued, and reconciled to God.”* The discovery process includes preaching the gospel, resulting in personal conversion.

Outcome: People become servants committed to following Jesus.

DEVELOP: Jesus said, “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me” (John 15:4, NASB). “Servant-leader discipleship will transform people at the deepest level of their being as they abide in Christ, engage the Holy Spirit, study the Word of God, and interact in community with other servant-leader disciples.”* The Holy Spirit uses this transformational development process to help people become, behave, and bear fruit as God intends.

Outcome: People grow in love becoming and behaving more like Jesus.

DEPLOY: Paul said, “The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also” (2 Timothy 2:2, NASB). The servant-leader discipleship system includes this infinitely reproducible missional commitment. “Jesus did not create spectators. He discovered, developed, and deployed ordinary individuals into His service as members of His body and servant-leaders of His church.”* The Holy Spirit empowers them to become servant-leader disciple-makers and deploys them to serve God in the church, the workplace, and the world according to their gifting and calling.

Outcome: People perform works of service leading like Jesus.

Join me on future posts and invite others to join as we unpack these and other valuable concepts, including experiences from my servant-leader discipleship journey. Hopefully, you will agree that Servant-Leader Discipleship is worth investing our time, talent, and treasure.

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*Vallejo, J. M. (2021). Servant-Leader Discipleship: Equipping people to grow in love for the work of service.