Resources

Go through the Knowing God Personally Booklet

• KGP (pdf)
• KGP Training – Big 6 Questions

Read the Gospel of John (together and on their own)

• Ask these questions of each chapter:
  • What do I learn about Jesus?
  • What would keep me from trusting and following him?

Read Tim Keller’s Reason for God and discuss it (in its entirety or more practically read the chapters that are relevant to the specific questions and barriers they have)

• Reason for God by Tim Keller (you can ask staff for a copy if you need one)

Take a new believer through these follow-up materials (if possible print these double-sided flip on short edge and it makes a nice pamphlet)

• Follow Up 1 – Stepping from Uncertainty to Confidence
  • Follow Up 1 – Leaders Guide
• Follow Up 2 – Stepping from Unworthiness to Forgiveness
  • Follow Up 2 – Leaders Guide
• Follow Up 3 – Stepping from Unable to Empowered
  • Follow Up 3 – Leaders Guide
• Follow Up 4 – Stepping from Unprepared to Equipped
  • Follow Up 4 – Leaders Guide
• Follow Up 5 – Stepping from Undeveloped to Maturity
  • Follow Up 5 – Leaders Guide

• Use Follow Up 1 – Stepping from Uncertainty to Confidence.
  • Reference the Follow Up 1 – Leaders Guide to help lead the time.
• Use Cru.comm – Discovery – That You May Know – Assurance.

• Use The Compass – Walk – The Importance of Church.

• Read through Biblical Community and talk about it.
• Use The Compass – Walk – Fellowship.
• Use Cru.comm – Action – All You Need is Love – Our Need for Community.
• Use Cru.comm – Action – All You Need is Love – Bonding.

• Read through Tim Keller’s All of Life is Repentance then talk about it and answer questions.
• Use Follow Up 2 – Stepping from Unworthiness to Forgiveness.
  • Reference the Follow Up 2 – Leaders Guide to help lead the time.
• Use Cru.comm – Discovery – Walking in the Light – Confession.

• Use The Compass – Conflict Resolution.

• Read through A Daily Time with the Lord and talk about it.
• Read through Keeping a QT Journal and talk about it.
• Use the Time with the Lord study.
• Read through Guide for a Day with the Lord and help them implement a plan.

• Introduce and explain the Discerning God’s Will Worksheet – This tool is very helpful in making godly decisions. Also refer to this Sample Worksheet for examples.
• Use The Compass – Multiply – Discerning God’s Will.
• Use Cru.comm – Action – Trying to Find the Lightswitch – Guidance.

• The Discipleship Training Packet – We have compiled a comprehensive “guidebook” to help you understand the discipleship process that we use here in Cru at Baylor. Covering everything from disciple selection to content selection to the practicals of planning out a semester of discipleship, the Discipleship Training Packet covers it all. Refer to it often to enhance and refine your discipleship skills!
  • To access only the U-Diagram click here.
  • To access only the Growth Circles click here.
  • To access only the Disciple Selection article click here.
• Use The Compass – Multiply – Spiritual Multiplication.
• Use The Compass – Multiply – Challenging to Discipleship.
• Use The Compass – Multiply – A Primer on Discipleship.

• Read through Roger Hershey’s An Eternal Perspective then discuss and answer the questions.
• Use The Compass – Walk – Eternal Perspective.

• Read through Five Postures of Majority Culture and discuss.
• Read through Six Postures of Minority Culture and discuss.
• Read Biblical Principles for Contextualized Ministry and discuss.
• Read through Culture, Ethnicity, and Race: Working Definitions and discuss.

• Read the CoJourners Explorer article and implement a plan to practice exploring.
• Walk them through the Three Modes of Evangelism Worksheet using the leaders guide.
• Prayer, Care, Share – Prayer, Care, Share is an evangelism frame work you can use with your disciples to help them look outward, pray, and take steps of faith in sharing the gospel. Use the Prayer, Care, Share Worksheet to help organize the outreach.
• Use The Compass – Walk – Sharing the Gospel.
• Use The Compass – Communicate – Initiative Evangelism.
• Use The Compass – Communicate – Successful Witnessing.
• Use The Compass – Communicate – Transitions to the Gospel.
• Use The Compass – Communicate – Sharing Your Story.
• Use The Compass – Communicate – Motives for Evangelism.
• Use The Compass – Multiply – World Vision.

• Read Beware of Friendship Idealism and discuss.
• Use The Gift of Relationships.

• Read and discuss C.S. Lewis’ article The Weight of Glory.
• Read and discuss Paul Tripp’s article Familiarity.

• Explain and have them fill out the Walking with God Over the Holidays worksheet.

• Work through The River to talk about their history and heart issues.
• Read through Heart Idolatry and discuss.

• Use Follow Up 3 – Stepping from Unable to Empowered
  • Reference the Follow Up 3 – Leaders Guide to help lead the time.
• Use Follow Up 4 – Stepping from Unprepared to Equipped
  • Reference the Follow Up 4 – Leaders Guide to help lead the time.
• Use The Compass – The Spirit Filled Life.

• Use The Compass – Walk – Position in Christ.

• Use The Compass – Obedience.

• Read and discuss Getting Parents Approval.

• Read through and discuss Tim Keller’s How the Gospel Affects Our Prayer Life.
• Use The Compass – Walk – Prayer.
• Read Seven Reasons to Pray and discuss.

• Read and discuss Tim Keller’s The Advent of Humility.

• Read through Tim Keller’s Centrality of the Gospel parts 1 and 2 doing the exercises as you go.
• Use Follow Up 5 – Stepping From Being Undeveloped to Maturity.
  • Reference the Follow Up 5 – Leaders Guide to help lead the time.
• Read through The Growth Model and talk about it. This can also be supplemented or replaced with the Compass article below that is based on the same content and aids you with discussion points and questions.
• Use The Compass – Walk – Growth.

• Read through the article Scripture Memory then discuss and implement a memory plan.
• Use The Compass – Scripture Memory.

• Read Chapter 2 of Closing the Window by Tim Chester and discuss using the Discussion Guide.
• It is suggested that those struggling with sexual purity read all of Tim Chester’s Closing the Window and Heath Lambert’s Finally Free.
• Use The Compass – Personal Purity.
• Use Cru.comm – Training – Model Purity – Sexual Purity.
• Read Four Corners of Sexual Wholeness and discuss.

• Use The Compass – Stewardship.

• Use Cru.comm – Training – I Made Me Do It – Temptation.

• Use Preparing Your Personal Testimony to discuss and then practice giving a personal testimony.

• Walk them through the Biblical Productivity Study.
• Use The Compass – Time Management.

• Use Cru.comm – Training – Consider it Joy – Trials.

• Use The Compass – The Word
• Use Cru.comm – Action – The Foundation of Our Life – Authority of Scripture.
• Use Cru.comm – Action – Handling it Well – Knowing the Word.
• Use Cru.comm – Action – The Power of Scripture – Repentance and Renewal.
• Help them implement a Bible reading plan. Consider using an app (ReadingPlan iOS or Bible Reading Plan android). Or use a printable plan.
• Teach them the COMA method and practice on a passage or short book.
• Read Lies That Keep Women from the Word and discuss.

• Use The Compass – Communicate – Worry.
• Use Cru.comm – Discovery – Why Worry – Worry.

• The Blue Like Jazz study is designed so that a non-believer can participate in all of the discussions and not feel intimidated. At the same time the ideas are challenging enough to be engaging for even mature believers. It’s a great balance. The study is also designed to ease a group into scripture. The early studies make small reference to scripture while the last 4 studies actually out of the Gospel of John not Blue Like Jazz. The transition from the book to the bible is seamless and makes for an easy introduction to investigating Jesus. In each study I have included a leaders guide, a participants guide, and the readings. Note that the study does not go in the order of the chapters.
  • 1 – Blue Like Jazz Chapter 3
  • 2 – Blue Like Jazz Chapter 7
  • 3 – Blue Like Jazz Chapter 2
  • 4 – Blue Like Jazz Chapter 20
  • 5 – John 4
  • 6 – John 10
  • 7 – John 14,16
  • 8 – John 15

• Calling and Walking is an in depth study of the book of Ephesians that looks at how all God has called us in Christ and how we are to walk (live our lives) in light of that calling. The study has a participants guide, a leaders guide, and binder inserts to make it aesthetically pleasing.
  • Calling and Walking – Study Guide
  • Calling and Walking – Leaders Guide
  • Calling and Walking – Binder Inserts
  • Gospel Deeps Article

• The Road to Jerusalem is an in depth study of the book of the second half of the book of Luke. It looks at Jesus life as he heads toward Jerusalem to die and how he calls people to follow him.
  • Luke – The Road to Jerusalem – Study Guide
  • Luke – The Road to Jerusalem – Leaders Guide