Discipleship Essentials: A Guide to Building Your Life in Christ

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The Essential Workbook for Spiritual Growth

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. Discipleship Essentials by Greg Ogden is a tool designed to help you follow this pattern.

In each week, you'll find:

• a core truth presented in a question-and-answer format
• a memory verse and accompanying study
• a field-tested inductive Bible study
• a reading on the theme for the week
• questions to draw out key principles in the reading

Ideally designed for groups of three, Discipleship Essentials can also be read as an individual study program, a one-on-one discipling tool, or a small group curriculum. This expanded and completely updated edition also includes a new leader's guide.

Jesus had a big enough vision to think small. Focusing on a few disciples did not limit his influence; rather, it expanded it. Discipleship Essentials is designed to help you influence others as Jesus did--by investing deeply in a few.

Greg Ogden (DMin, Fuller Theological Seminary) lives out his passion of speaking, teaching, and writing about the disciple-making mission of the church after spending twenty-four years in pastoral ministry. Most recently Greg served as executive pastor of discipleship at Christ Church of Oak Brook in the Chicago western suburbs. From 1998 to 2002, Greg held the position of director of the Doctor of Ministry program at Fuller Theological Seminary and associate professor of lay equipping and discipleship. Greg is also the author of Essential Guide to Becoming a Disciple, Transforming Discipleship, Leadership Essentials (with coauthor Daniel Meyer), and The Essential Commandment. He is a partner in the Global Discipleship Initiative (GDI), which trains, coaches, and inspires pastors and Christian leaders to establish indigenous, multiplying, disciplemaking networks, both nationally and internationally.