Opening the Door of Faith

Opening the Door of Faith
Author: Thomas D. Stegman, SJ
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2015
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 1587684918

Essays that bring forth another source for study and reflection on the issue of faith, the five major voices of the New Testament—Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul. This book lays out four dimensions of the life of faith from each of these voices.

Sticky Church

Sticky Church
Author: Larry Osborne
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2008-12-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 031031299X

Why closing the back door of your church is even more important than opening the front door wider. In Sticky Church, author and pastor Larry Osborne offers a time-tested strategy for doing so: sermon-based small groups that dig deeper into the weekend message and tightly velcro members to the ministry. It's a strategy that enabled Osborne's congregation to grow from a handful of people to one of the larger churches in the nation—without any marketing or special programming. Sticky Church tells the inspiring story of North Coast Church's phenomenal growth and offers practical tips for launching your own sermon-based small group ministry. Topics include: Why stickiness is so important Why most of our discipleship models don't work very well Why small groups always make a church more honest and transparent What makes groups grow deeper and sticker over time Sticky Church is an ideal book for church leaders who want to start or retool their small group ministry—and velcro their congregation to the Bible and each other.

“Discipleship and Discipline Second Edition”

“Discipleship and Discipline Second Edition”
Author: Minister William H. Hicks
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2019-08-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 197367078X

“Discipleship and Discipline” encourages readers to pursue the Great Commission of Jesus Christ to “go into all the world and make disciples of all the nations.” The book examines the biblical imperative and instructions for becoming and making disciples.

Experiencing Jesus' Joy through Obedient Discipleship: Second Edition

Experiencing Jesus' Joy through Obedient Discipleship: Second Edition
Author: Dr. James B. Joseph
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2016-06-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0989825647

Experiencing Jesus' Joy through Obedient Discipleship helps people understand their God-given purpose for existing and understand that each person of every society, culture, and religious background must decide if the one true God is worthy to follow. Although everyone has a nature that has been marred by disobedience toward God, God continually works in everyone's heart and mind to teach the reality of His desire for each to learn to return His love and voluntarily submit to His leadership thereby becoming part of His eternal close-knit holy family. All who listen and learn to return God's love become followers of Christ. Experiencing Jesus' Joy through Obedient Discipleship helps its readers understand the creation more fully including being made in the image of God, spiritual warfare, self-centeredness, spiritual awakening, commitment, sojourning with God, and being His representatives to those who are still struggling with Satan's deceptions and their own self-centeredness.

Milarepa and the Art of Discipleship II

Milarepa and the Art of Discipleship II
Author: Sangharakshita
Publisher: Windhorse Publications
Total Pages: 610
Release: 2018-04-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1911407082

This is the continuing story of Milarepa and his disciple Rechungpa, first encountered in volume 18 of The Complete Works. As portrayed in The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, Rechungpa is a promising disciple, but he has a lot to learn, being sometimes proud, distracted, anxious, desirous of comfort and praise, over-attached to book learning, stubborn, sulky and liable to go to extremes. In other words, he is very human, and surely recognizable to anyone who has embarked on the spiritual path. He all too often takes his teacher's advice the wrong way, or simply ignores it, and it takes all of Milarepa's skill, compassion and patience to keep their relationship intact and help his unruly disciple to stay on the path to Enlightenment.In the story that begins this volume, matters come to a head when Milarepa burns the books that Rechungpa went all the way to India to acquire, but by the end of the volume, Rechungpa is able to set out on his own mission to teach the Dharma. Much happens in between.Sangharakshita's commentary, based on seminars given in the late 1970s and early 1980s, draws from the stories of Milarepa and his wayward disciple much valuable advice for any would-be spiritual practitioner.

Discipleship in the New Age Vol II

Discipleship in the New Age Vol II
Author: Alice A. Bailey
Publisher: Lucis Publishing Companies
Total Pages: 802
Release: 2013-04-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0853304041

Two volumes contain the record of a series of personal and group instructions given to a small group of aspirants over a period of fifteen years by a Master of the Wisdom. They contain detailed teachings on Meditation, Initiation and the Six Stages of Discipleship. They emphasise the new age pioneering necessity for group work, the development of group consciousness, and the change in training for initiation from individuals to discipleship groups.