Step 9: What Is the Will of God and How Do I Discover It?

Isn\u27t it strange that one of the priorities of the Christian ministry is to make disciples, but very few Christians have ever been intentionally discipled by anyone! Attached below are a series of ten interactive discipleship lessons in English and Spanish to help the discipler guide a new believer in the foundational concepts of the Christian life. Click on the lesson topic and print it for your disciples

The Cost of Making Disciples

(Excerpt) Christians, wrote Tertullian in the second century, are made, not born. Fortunately, we have a description of how they were made from the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus.l Exposed to the gospel through lives of committed Christians, inquirers were questioned as to the seriousness of their intentions. Were they willing to change their lives and to renounce occupational patterns that were incompatible with the faith? Or, was the idolatry permeating their culture so pervasive that they were unable to hear the word ? If these candidates were capable of making lifestyle corrections, they entered the catechumenate. For as long as three years, these members in- process were led with care and deliberateness into Christian life. The setting for this faith apprenticeship was liturgical rather than academic, with regular patterns of prayer, exorcism, and the laying on of hands

Step 1: What does it mean to believe?

Isn\u27t it strange that one of the priorities of the Christian ministry is to make disciples, but very few Christians have ever been intentionally discipled by anyone! Attached below are a series of ten interactive discipleship lessons in English and Spanish to help the discipler guide a new believer in the foundational concepts of the Christian life. Click on the lesson topic and print it for your disciples

An Application of Discourse Analysis Methodology in the Exegesis of John 17

This study applies discourse analysis methodology to the study of the seventeenth chapter of John. Instead of adopting the typical three-fold division of Jesus\u27 prayer based upon the three referents (Jesus, the immediate disciples, and future disciples), greater attention is given to Jesus\u27 requests and final commitment, the mainline verbs. By giving more structural significance to the mainline verbs, the structural division and natural outline of Jesus\u27 prayer become more evident

Librarians as Disciples and Disciple-Makers

Librarians as Disciples and Disciple-Makers was a workshop at the 2016 Conference for the Association of Christian Librarians. This session focused on exploring the concept of being led by God, sharing round-table ideas on big-picture vision questions, and writing a personal sixty-month action plan for balanced discipleship living. This article is a summation of the workshop

Introduction to Through A Glass Darkly: Essays in the Religious Imagination

The question that so disturbed Christ\u27s contemporaries resonates even now: Who do you say that I am? (Matt. 16 : 15). Paradoxically, the answers his disciples boldly or clumsily offer seem to define them far more clearly than describe their teacher. The New Testament stands as a record of their subsequent obsession with the question, with what they remember their answers to have been, and with how this radically creative interrogation ordered their remaining years. Throughout the centuries their own disciples, variously aided and obstructed by these confessions, used the question as a litmus test not only in their prayer and in their personal relations, but, eventually, in their global politics, as well

Yale Divinity School and the Disciples of Christ 1872-1989

For many years, Disciples of Christ students well out-numbered Congregationalists and Methodists at Yale Divinity School, and this led to a mainstreaming of Disciples within the broader Protestant world. Yale Divinity School and the Disciples of Christ documents this transition, noting all graduates of Yale with ties to Disciples between 1872 and 1989. This important book shows the lasting impact of Yale on higher education, pastorates, denominational offices, foreign missions, and theological scholarship. The mainstreaming of Disciples of Christ in the 1920s was greatly shaped as its ministers pursued higher education. Becker\u27s study shows the important place of Yale Divinity School in Disciples history. Though at one time, the University of Chicago trained more ministers than Yale, by the 1970s more than 600 clergy serving in Disciples of Christ had received their training from the Yale Divinity School.https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/acu_library_books/1025/thumbnail.jp

Making Disciples: The Effects of Technology Integration Coaching

This paper describes a pilot study of collegial coaching for technology integration at two private Christian schools. Two students nearing completion of a Master’s in Education in Curriculum and Instruction with a Specialization in Instructional Technology each coached three fellow teachers, self-described as digital immigrants, to integrate technology into their teaching. The coaches spent an average of 15 hours per teacher brainstorming, teaching, and facilitating technology integration. Information obtained from a variety of data sources (interviews, a post-coaching questionnaire, a focus group, and analyses of journals kept by both coaches and coached teachers) revealed the positive effects of their collegial coaching and suggested ideas for optimizing coaching for technology integration

Choosing Disciples

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