WhAT WE DO
We gather pastors, ministry leaders, and kingdom workers into year-long cohorts—small communities of 5-12 leaders around the world who spend a year rediscovering Jesus together: his gospel, his mission, and his model of making disciples.
This isn't a conference or a course. It's an intentional leadership community where you'll study the Gospels, pray, wrestle with hard questions and Scripture, rebuild a clear understanding of your why, and craft a customized disciple-making plan for your context. How will you actually obey Jesus’ Great Commission in your context?
Over 10 monthly gatherings, you'll:
Reclaim the Kingdom Gospel that naturally leads to discipleship (not just conversion)
Learn from Jesus' model—how he actually made disciples and what that means for your leadership
Build a customized plan that fits your context's people, language, size, culture, and resources
Join a growing network of 1,000+ alumni committed to Jesus-centered disciple-making
You'll leave with three things: theological and missional clarity, a practical plan, customized tools to execute that plan, and a community of leaders who share your conviction that the church's renewal comes from following Jesus—and leading others to do the same.
The Bonhoeffer Project isn't building an institution. We're catalyzing a movement—a network of leaders who've rediscovered Jesus and His way, and are committed to his mission of making disciples of Jesus who make disciples.
"Jesus’ disciples are God’s gift to the world. And the church is for the making of those disciples.”
World revolution through local movements of disciple-making. That's what we're after. And it starts with leaders like you.
*Want more details? Check out our cohorts page.
WHAT WE’RE ABOUT
Kingdom GOspel
“The gospel you preach determines the disciples you make.”
-Bill Hull
Incomplete and truncated gospels have become our cultural inheritance, promising that you can be a Christian without following Christ. We are a community of leaders committed to reclaiming the Biblical gospel—the Good News that begins with ‘Come, follow me’ and results in disciples of Jesus that create disciples.
We want to see the upstream, driving force of Western Christianity to be the compelling Biblical story that results in a missional people orienting their all for King Jesus.
JESuS-CENTERED Churches
“Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.”
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It’s easy to spot a Jesus-centered church. They don’t just preach Jesus as the way to heaven–they train people to follow Jesus as the way of life. This is the heart of the Great Commission that we can easily omit…”teaching them to obey everything I commanded you,” a commission given to all his followers. A Jesus-centered church can point to at least one place where growing believers intentionally study Jesus and his model, and then are commissioned to do this for others. As Gen Z curiously walks through the doors of our churches, we want them to find Jesus.
WORLDWIDE RENEWAL
“For God’s Sake, do something brave.”
-Ulrich Zwingli
God is doing a mighty work, around the world, in our time. Church history shows us two pictures:
1) Movements of renewal that flash in the pan and quickly fade without proper rootedness, and
2) Movements of renewal that sustainably cultivate world revolution because the theology (upstream), the strategy (midstream), and the way (downstream) are unified and rooted in Jesus. We want to see sustained worldwide revolution through local movements of Jesus-centered disciple-making.
WHO WE ARE
We are a collective of pastors and ministry leaders around the world committed to the Good News of Jesus’ Kingdom and His call to make disciples for the sake of the world. We are dedicated to carrying out our part Jesus’ historic Great Commission…to see perpetual world revolution through local movements of Jesus-centered disciple-making.
10 years, 165+ cohorts led by dozens of expert leaders in regional settings, nearly 1,000 pastors and leaders catalyzed through a one-year transformational journey. In 2014, co-founders Bill Hull and Brandon Cook began The Bonhoeffer Project with a handful of pastors. Patterned after Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Grand Experiment at Finkenwalde, Hull and Cook crafted a year-long experience of pastors learning together, praying together, and seeking after a disciple-making way together. Pastors emerged from these cohorts with a renewed clarity of their goal, a passion to fuel the work, and a customized plan to make it happen in their contexts. Thanks to the dedication of passionate pastors and regional leaders, church planting agencies and denominational partners, The Bonhoeffer Project has trained close to 1,000 pastors and ministry leaders worldwide.
*Want to hear from these pastors? Check out our testimonials page.