Being Disciples

Chapter 1

Why Jesus?

GodTools app, from Cru
A free app with simple ways to understand and share the Gospel, including Knowing God Personally, the updated form of the Four Spiritual Laws that reached Tom.
godtoolsapp.com

“Home to Me” by Jason Upton
A song about the Father who never gives up on His wandering children, the soundtrack of the moment God began pulling my heart back home.
Listen on YouTube

“Your Love Broke Through” by Keith Green
A song from my generation about the love that breaks through when we finally stop running.
Listen on YouTube

Chapter 2

Blessed to Bless, Sent Two by Two

10 Days of Prayer
Every fall, believers in cities around the world set aside the same ten days, from the Feast of Trumpets to the Day of Atonement, to seek God together. Nobody owns it, and anyone can host: a church, a living room, a picnic table, or two friends in an RV park. A free prayer guide is available each year.
10days.net

Chapter 3

A Church Within Reach of Every Person

Joshua Project
Search any country or people group to see where believers are few and where the Church has not yet taken root. A good place to begin asking who in your world has no church within reach.
joshuaproject.net

Houses That Change the World: The Return of the House Churches, by Wolfgang Simson
A bold, even radical call back to the simple, multiplying church of the New Testament, gathered in ordinary homes, where every member ministers. Read it for the vision. The chapters ahead, and books like Neil Cole’s Organic Church, show what it looks like in practice.

DAWN 2000: 7 Million Churches to Go, by Jim Montgomery
The vision behind the DAWN movement described in this chapter: a witnessing fellowship within reach of every person, in every community of every nation.

Chapter 4

Being Before Doing

Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God, by Dallas Willard
A thoughtful, practical guide to recognizing God’s voice and learning to walk with Him in an ongoing conversation.

Waiting on God: A 31-Day Adventure into the Heart of God, 4th Edition, by Andrew Murray and Colin Millar
Murray’s 1896 classic of thirty-one short meditations, carefully updated in modern English by fellow South African Colin Millar. One a day for a month.

Lead with Prayer: The Spiritual Habits of World-Changing Leaders, by Ryan Skoog, Peter Greer, and Cameron Doolittle
The authors spent three years learning how leaders around the world pray. Includes prayers to use and tools for building a culture of prayer in any team, church, or business.

Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge, by Mark Batterson
Forty days of true stories of answered prayer, each with a Scripture and a prayer prompt, to help you build bold, persistent prayer habits for a lifetime.

Chapter 5

Counting the Cost

Prayer and Suffering
Resources from the Fellowship of Prayer Strategists for praying through suffering and persecution, including a Discovery Bible story set and teaching slides.
In the Resource Library

Suffering Blog Series, by Curtis Sergeant
A series of reflections on suffering in the life of a disciple, from a trainer with decades of experience in disciple-making movements.
Read it here

Why God Calls Us to Dangerous Places, by Kate McCord
Drawn from years of service in Afghanistan, an honest look at why God sends His people into hard and risky places, and how He meets them there.

The Insanity of God and The Insanity of Obedience, by Nik Ripken
The first tells the story of a family’s loss and their search among persecuted believers for whether faith can survive. The second carries those lessons into how to walk with Jesus in tough places.

The Cost of Discipleship, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Written by a German pastor who was later executed for resisting the Nazis, the classic call to costly grace: when Christ calls a person, He bids them come and die.

The Problem of Pain, by C. S. Lewis
A clear, honest wrestling with the question every suffering believer eventually asks: if God is good and all-powerful, why does He allow pain?

Chapter 6

Beginning in His Presence

Prayer as Worship Warfare
Teaching and resources from the Fellowship of Prayer Strategists on worship as a weapon of prayer that changes the spiritual atmosphere.
In the Resource Library

“Adoration” by Mike Adkins
The recording of worship to the names of Jesus that we played through the night in China. Try it in your own room and see whether the atmosphere changes.
Listen on YouTube

The Practice of the Presence of God, by Brother Lawrence
A seventeenth-century monk who worked in a monastery kitchen learned to live in continual conversation with God among the pots and pans. A short classic on abiding in His presence in the ordinary tasks of every day.

Chapter 7

Lift Up Your Eyes

Joshua Project Prayer Cards
The same cards that were laid on the chairs in Oldenburg, one for each unreached people group, now available in many languages. The site also features an Unreached of the Day to pray for each day.
joshuaproject.net/pray/unreachedoftheday/cards

Bless Every Home
A website and app that helps you learn your neighbors’ names and pray for them. You choose how many nearby households to adopt, and an optional daily email sends you five of their names with a prayer prompt. It also offers simple next steps to care for your neighbors, share the Gospel with them, and disciple them.
blesseveryhome.com

Chapter 8

Every Place Your Foot Shall Tread

Streets of Prayer
A ministry with the goal of covering every person and every street in the world in prayer. Its interactive prayer map lets you claim an area near you to prayerwalk, follow GPS prayer walks, and pray persistently by name for friends who don’t yet know Jesus.
streetsofprayer.com · streetsofprayer.org

Chapter 9

Look for Bridges, Pray for the Harvest

Eternity in Their Hearts, by Don Richardson
Story after story from cultures around the world in which God had already planted a witness to Himself long before missionaries arrived. Richardson’s earlier book, Peace Child, tells the full story of the bridge he found in New Guinea.

Church Planting Movements: How God Is Redeeming a Lost World, by David Garrison
A study of rapidly multiplying movements of churches around the world and the common elements found in each. The manual this book grows from draws on it in this chapter and the next.

5fish app, from Global Recordings Network
Free audio Bible stories and Gospel messages in thousands of languages. Like the cassettes we carried through the Himalayas, it lets someone hear the Good News in the language of their heart. Play one for a neighbor from another nation and ask what they heard.
globalrecordingsusa.org/about/5fish

Chapter 10

Go Out in Dependence on God

Kingdom Keys for Business, Life & Work podcast
Season 1, Episode 4 tells Bill Job’s background and his journey into Business as Mission, the glassmaker from Xiamen you met in this chapter. Listen especially if you are weighing whether your business or profession could be your calling.
Listen to the episode

Church Planting Movements: How God Is Redeeming a Lost World, by David Garrison
The study the manual draws on for this chapter’s teaching that every member ministers and every worker supports himself. It also appears in the Chapter 9 box.

More from the Fellowship of Prayer Strategists

The book grows out of a training manual and decades of field work. Everything the fellowship has published since is in the library — search it by topic, region, or who it is for.