Discipleship Essentials: A Guide to Building Your Life in Christ

by Greg Ogden

Book Overview

A 2014 ECPA Christian Book Award Finalist Discover the fullness of life in Christ. We grow in Christ as we seek him together. Jesus' own pattern of disciple-making was to be intimately involved with others and allow life to rub against life. By gathering in twos or threes to study the Bible and encourage one another, we most closely follow Jesus' example with the twelve disciples. This workbook by Greg Ogden is a tool designed to help you follow this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830810870
• ISBN13: 9780830810871
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: IVP Connect
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

UC Berkeley Students Rate This

I've seen my students leaders barf on various kinds of discipleship "materials" over the years. This is the only discipleship "stuff" that they have really loved and been impressed by (re: because it's well written & and written at a college-level). I love it because it's lead foot is "making disciples" ...it's got the right DNA. Daniel Curran (510) 290-8145 * [...] The Bay Area Campus Ministry * Campus Crusade for Christ

well thought out and written

I found this book to be very well thought out and written. It is an excellent tool for those looking to grow in their own personal discipleship and or to develop a discipleship program.

Finally, an effective tool for disicplemaking

After years of various approaches to disicplemaking, I was so excited to first read Greg Ogden's "Transforming Discipleship" which then led me to this work, "Discipleship Essentials," a 24 week curriculum for disciplemaking. Our church is using it in groups of three or four who upon completion prayerfully enlist their own "triad" to go through the material with. It can take as long as a year, but for the first time we are seeing genuine multiplication take place. Get both books and get started today!

Discipleship is more than evangelism

The philosophy/theology behind this workbook is in Ogden's Transformed Discipleship - a must read for leaders considering using this workbook. The workbook is excellent, covering the basics. But a caution is necessary. If it is treated like a Sunday School, fill-in-the-blanks, assignment, transformation is unlikely. Read the questions carefully. Reflect on them. Ask God to reveal to you how to answer from your heart. If you do, you will become a disciple. Living out Christianity is not "purpose" driven but "process" driven: Matt 28:19-20 declares the process is "make disciples" . . . this workbook is the teaching component of that. Go, now, make disciples.

Discipleship Essentials: A Guide to Building Your LIfe in Ch

Excellent resource for new believers and the many of us who have accumulated head knowledge but not awareness of our personal discipleship -- great tool.