The Discipleship Gospel Workbook

Solid disciple-making curriculum is hard to find. That's why Ben Sobels and Bill Hull-pastors, practitioners, and authors of The Discipleship Gospel-created this workbook, which guides your discipleship group through the Gospel of Mark, chapter by chapter, to multiply disciples. Disciple makers use this Scripture-grounded workbook to teach people Jesus' gospel, train them to follow Jesus, and equip them as evangelizing disciple makers. Using the foundational principles of The Discipleship Gospel, this interactive tool encourages you to step outside your comfort zone and embrace gospel-motivated action. It's designed to disciple new believers, undiscipled believers, and even those who aren't yet following Jesus. It's an evangelistic discipleship tool! Whether you want to start making disciples yourself or need a core curriculum for multiplying disciples for your church, The Discipleship Gospel Workbook is a proven catalyst for creating a movement in your church of multiplying disciples. Start multiplying disciples with Mark's Gospel today! "This workbook is a succinct and accessible study of Mark's Gospel to jump-start the disciple-making process. This tool lays a solid foundation wherever you might be on the 'Jesus journey' and provides a way to empower participants to become disciple makers." -GREG OGDEN, author, Discipleship Essentials; chairman, Global Discipleship Initiative BILL HULL is cofounder of The Bonhoeffer Project and author of Conversion and Discipleship and The Disciple-Making Pastor. He speaks as a persevering prophet on the topic of discipleship around the nation. BEN SOBELS is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary and serves as Senior Pastor at Cypress Community Church in Salinas, California. He also serves as a regional director for The Bonhoeffer Project.

Who is this Jesus Who calls to us, Who gave His all, and Who asks for everything? Who bids you, “Come, follow Me?” The book, “Authentic Discipleship” tells you what this means. And how does one learn to listen? To pray? To love? To walk with Him? How do you learn to follow Jesus? “Authentic Discipleship” helps you know how. Are you ready to begin the journey?

A much-needed area for brand new converts is a practical workbook for follow up. This is the purpose of 'Connect with Jesus'. I have spent over 16 years as a full time itinerate evangelist. My heart broke over the lack of good material to give to each convert. These babies in Jesus need something special to help them get rooted in the faith. They need to understand what happened to them and what the Bible says about their conversion. These precious babies in Jesus must have something in their hands that will immediately get them into the Word of God. This workbook covers vitally important topics that every new believer must understand to grow in Christ. Understanding what true salvation is all about and what the Bible says about salvation. The importance of reading their Bibles, the importance of having a prayer life and how to develop that discipline, the importance of Church and personal evangelism are just a few topics covered in this important workbook. Churches that use this book as a new believers class are thrilled with their results.

A much-needed area for brand new converts is a practical workbook for follow up. This is purpose of 'Connect with Jesus'. I have spent over 16 years as a full time itinerant evangelist. My heart broke over the lack of good material to give to each convert. These babies in Jesus need something special to help them get rooted in the faith. They need to understand what happened to them and what the Bible says about their conversion. These precious babies in Jesus must have something in their hands that will immediately get them into the Word of God. This workbook covers vitally important topics that every new believer must understand to grow in Christ. Understanding what true salvation is all about and what the Bible says about salvation. The importance of reading their Bibles, the importance of having a prayer life and how to develop that discipline, the importance of Church and personal evangelism are just a few topics covered in this important workbook. Churches that use this book as a new believers class are thrilled with their results.

Discipleship occurs when someone answers the call to learn from Jesus how to live his or her life as though Jesus were living it. The end result is that the disciple becomes the kind of person who naturally does what Jesus did. How the church understands salvation and the gospel is the key to recovering a biblical theology of discipleship. Our doctrines of grace and salvation, in some cases, actually prevent us from creating an expectation that we are to be disciples of Jesus. A person can profess to be a Christian and yet still live under the impression that they don’t need to actually follow Jesus. Being a follower is seen as an optional add-on, not a requirement. It is a choice, not a demand. Being a Christian today has no connection with the biblical idea that we are formed into the image of Christ. In this ground-breaking new book, pastor and author Bill Hull shows why our existing models of evangelism and discipleship fail to actually produce followers of Jesus. He looks at the importance of recovering a robust view of the gospel and taking seriously the connection between conversion—answering the call to follow Jesus—and discipleship—living like the one we claim to follow.

A Bible study workbook or class book on discipleship, suitable for teens or adults. Designed for use in classes, new convert studies, family studies, or personal study. Ten lessons covering the following topics: * How to Change Yourself * How to Study the Bible * Teach Us to Pray * Attending Church Meetings * Giving to Finance Church Work * Human Relationships * Responsibilities in the Local Church * Purity in Everyday Life * Church Organization & Work * Church Discipline How can a Christian replace bad habits with good ones? What principles should guide our worship in Bible study, prayer, and church attendance? How should disciples treat others in family relationships in their homes, toward civil government, in business affairs, and toward other races and nationalities? What does God's word teach about moral issues such as gambling, use of alcohol and drugs, sexual conduct, abortion, homosexuality, etc.? Should local churches supervise their work independently or should they affiliate with centralized institutions and denominational hierarchies? Should they focus on spiritual work or pursue Social Gospel practices such as entertainment, recreation, sports, and parties?

Study Manual content illuminates some aspect of the Jesus in the Gospels each week and connects Scripture to daily life and Jesus' call to discipleship. The overarching aim is to deepen discipleship through better understanding of the biblical texts and their message. The study helps group members understand that Jesus is rooted in Judaism and the Scriptures of Judaism and that Christianity and the New Testament are rooted in the Scriptures of Judaism--our Old Testament. The Study Manual guides daily study and preparation for the weekly group meeting. The main elements in the format are designated by scriptural phrases: "They have no wine" (John 2:3) is a brief statement about the human condition and alerts the reader to some aspect of daily life that Scripture can shed light on. "Beginning with Moses and all the prophets" (Luke 24:27) is a way of referring to Scripture as a whole and signals the fact that we can understand Jesus in the Gospels better by understanding the Old Testament better. "Do you want to become his disciples, too?" (John 9:27, New International Version) is designed to stimulate thoughtful reflection so readers can come to their own conclusions about what their own discipleship calls for. Accompanying each day's Scripture reading assignments are suggestions of things to look for that take the reader deeper into Scripture. As readers become aware of detail in Scripture, they might ask themselves repeatedly, What am I to make of this? The study manual provides space for writing notes on insights, observations, and questions related to the Scripture, and for putting into words personal perceptions of Jesus from the week's Scripture.