Real-Life Discipleship Training Manual: Equipping Disciples Who Make Disciples

by Jim Putman; Avery T. Willis Jr.; Brandon Guindon; Bill Krause

Publisher:

NavPress

, 2010

Overview

This companion training manual to Real-Life Discipleship provides unique guidance and insight to pastors, church leaders, and their disciples as they work to create an effective discipleship program.

With a thorough, results-oriented process that can be applied in other contexts and cultures, this manual explains the necessary components of disciple-making so that every church member can play a part in reaching others for Christ.

This leader’s resource shows you how to cultivate new leaders for the future and equip them to make disciples.

In the Logos edition, this volume is enhanced by amazing functionality. Scripture citations link directly to English translations, and important terms link to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and a wealth of other resources in your digital library. Perform powerful searches to find exactly what you’re looking for. Take the discussion with you using tablet and mobile apps. With Logos Bible Software, the most efficient and comprehensive research tools are in one place, so you get the most out of your study.

Key Features

• Offers practical ways to encourage discipleship within the church
• Discusses what a healthy culture of discipleship looks like
• Provides a model for discipleship that is accessible, measurable, and reproducible

Contents

• A Heart to Make Disciples
• What Is a Disciple?
• How Disciples Grow
• Three Keys to Making Disciples
• How to Be an Intentional Leader
• A Closer Look at a Relational Environment
• A Closer Look at the Reproducible Process
• Share: Being Intentional with the Spiritually Dead and Spiritual Infants
• Connect: Helping Spiritual Children Grow
• Minister: Helping Young Adults Help Others
• Disciple: Being Intentional with Spiritual Parents
• One Necessary Tool: A Small-Group Curriculum

Top Highlights

“Here is how we define disciple at Real Life Ministries: (1) A disciple knows and follows Christ; (2) a disciple is being changed by Christ; and (3) a disciple is committed to the mission of Christ. Go back and add the words in bold in the margin beside your definition.” (Page 26)

“Two words that best characterize those who are spiritually dead are unbelief and rebellion.” (Page 43)

“Jesus changes us (1) through a relationship, and (2) over time.” (Page 34)

“Matthew 28:18–20 makes the church’s mission clear: The church is called to reach the world for Jesus one person at a time. In other words, every Christian is commanded to participate in the mission to make disciples.” (Page 9)

“A disciple is one who follows Christ. Disciples are affected at the head level—we acknowledge Jesus as Lord—and we follow Jesus as our head. This is what it means to believe.” (Page 30)

Product Details

• Title: Real-Life Discipleship Training Manual: Equipping Disciples Who Make Disciples
• Authors: Jim Putman, Avery T. Willis Jr., Brandon Guindon, and Bill Krause
• Publisher: NavPress
• Publication Date: 2010
• Pages: 240
• Christian Group: Evangelical
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Topic: Discipleship

About the Authors

Jim Putman is a 17-year ministry veteran, author, and national speaker. He is also the senior pastor of Real Life Ministries in Post Falls, Idaho. He holds degrees from Boise State University and Boise Bible College. With his background in sports, he believes in the value of strong coaching as a means to discipling.

Avery T. Willis Jr., has been a pastor, missionary, seminary president, and missions administrator in addition to being a popular author and speaker. He received his BA from Oklahoma Baptist University and his MDiv and ThD from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He pastored for 10 years in Texas and Oklahoma. He served as a missionary with the International Mission Board for 14 years and as president of the Indonesian Baptist Seminary in Indonesia for six years.

Brandon Guindon is an executive pastor at Real Life Ministries.

Bill Krause serves at Real Life Ministries as the leader of the Marriage and Family Ministry team. He is a graduate of Puget Sound Christian College, and earned his Master’s in Education from Eastern Washington University. Over the last 30 years Bill has worked in youth, children’s, and family ministries. Prior to coming to Real Life Bill was a professor at Boise Bible College serving as chairperson of the Christian Education program. His passion is the strengthening of God’s kingdom through generations of disciple makers in the home and in the world.