Make Disciples Who Make Disciples

A youth pastor friend of mine and I are leading a Live 2:6 Group, which is based on 1 John 2:6. This 2:6 group is made up of youth pastor's from around our area who have a passion to do ministry in the way of Christ, and model their ministries after the way He did.
Tomorrow I am leading a section of training which will focus on Jesus' mission. Jesus' mission, according to the Sonlife training guide we are using, is to make disciples who make disciples. This comes from Jesus' parting words to the disciples in Matthew 28:16-20, and Jesus' command to make disciples.
As I have been wrestling through this tonight, in view of my own ministry context and then expanding it out to "youth ministry" and "church" in general, I wonder why we don't see churches and ministries using Jesus' mission as their starting point. If my mission as a youth pastor and director of Catalyst Youth Ministries is to be about ministry multiplication, and sending out disciples who can make disciples, that changes things.
#1- The church becomes more about equipping the believer to send them out to win the lost than the place that has to win the lost.
#2- The church, and the pastor or youth pastor specifically, is not seen as the only one doing evangelism (all I have to do is bring my friend to church and then Pastor will get em saved), but a place to build and equip the believer, and the sending out point for them to do the sharing of the faith in Christ (the church becomes more missional- taking Christ into every aspect of one's life- than the place where we expect people to find Jesus by seeking out the church).
#3- Programs become resources and tools to equip the congregation/group do ministry, and not the place where we come to be entertained, nor the place where we dump our friends and assume the church will do all the work of justification and sanctification.
I have a bunch more thoughts, but need to get to bed and be fully rested to spend the day wrestling through the mission and motive of Christ, and how that is to be the starting point of healthy ministry in any context.
PS- Keep in mind that I know the church is the body of Christ uniting together to worship and adore our King. It is not to become a training or boot camp that hijacks loving God and loving others and turns it into an Amway-type training group. The worship, adoration, and exaltation of the Trinity is tantamount! And in that process, the church needs to wrestle through equipping the believer to send them into the world as workers in God's kingdom expansion project. What is the church's mission in raising up believers for the project? What is the motive behind what the church does (loving God/loving others? Megachurch numbers, community development, etc)? How does the church go about it's task, and how is it to be measured? So please, don't misread and assume I've lost the focus of the church praising and exalting God. My thinking is how to we go about the work of bringing more people to Christ for His work of winning them to Himself and the equipping and sending out of the body?

The Doctrine of Creation

One of the books I'm currently reading is Mark Driscoll's Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe. A quote from Chapter 3: God Makes absolutely struck me in terms of working with youth and today's culture.
People who do not understand the doctrine of creation and the doctrines that relate to it want to die. Some die a little bit at a time, weeping until they are empty and can no longer muster any tears. Others medicate themselves with perscriptions; antidepressants are now the most sold category of medicine, and depression is the most common diagnosis. Still others self-medicate with sex, food, alcohol, drugs, gambling, entertainment, video games, Internet surfing, and anything else that can serve as a diversion from the "unyielding despair." (The idea of unyielding despair comes from Bertrand Russel's, "A Free Man's Worship" article in Mysticism and Logic. By the way, Russel is a renowned atheistic philosopher).
Does that not drill the current culture in which our kids live, move, and have their being? Could it be, just maybe, that we as believers have lost the doctrine of creation? I say believers as the issues from above effect just as many "Christians" as pagans. And certainly this gets in to the area is one truly saved (see John Piper's book Finally Alive for a great unfolding of this idea).
It just causes one to think. It causes one to wonder whether we have lost the plot again. I'll have to think on this awhile (as these are my inner thoughts right now). Time to treadmill it up before Catalyst. I wonder what your thoughts are on this?! Comment away!