Real-Life Discipleship Training Manual: How to Build Churches That Make Disciples

This is such an amazing workbook. It gives great information when pertaining to discipleship.

I’m leading a group that consists of some volunteers who serve on a team I lead and it is allowing me to see where we all are and how I can support their growth. It’s equipping them to be ready to step into leading more of our team as well! LOVE this discipleship model and true Biblical focus!

This discipleship study is fantastic! Every Christian should go through this. It challenges you and gives great examples on how to make disciples and continue the process.My only complaint (and reason for knocking it down a star) is with the physical book. The binding is terrible and everyone’s book in our study group fell apart.

Real-Life Discipleship (Book and Training Manual)Jim PutmanNavPressA friend recently recommended this book and training manual. I guess he figured since my role as an Associate Pastor included Discipleship that this would be a good book to have in my arsenal. REAL-LIFE DISCIPLESHIP is a book written by Jim Putman who is the founding and senior pastor of Real Life Ministries in Post Falls, Idaho. In the book, Putman details what discipleship is and claims to have "proven tools and strategies" for effective discipleship. He offers many real-life examples and experiences to help the reader identify, recruit and develop potential disciples in their church or sphere of influence. In a nutshell, the disciple process is described as disciples who go out and make disciplesThe companion Training Manual is a 12-week workbook that goes into detail the process described in the book. The manual begins the process of defining a disciple, how they grow, how to make disciples, how to be intentional in sharing your faith and helping others to become disciples of Christ. The book concludes (Week 12) with a highly practical section titled "One Necessary Tool: A Small Group Curriculum" and it is the curriculum that the author uses in the small group ministry at Real Life Ministries.Overall, both of these books are excellent and they have been practical and insightful for me in helping find and develop a discipleship process that works. I am looking forward to using this material in the future as I seek to go out and find people who want to be disciples who go out and make disciples.

I got it for my son's discipleship class. It is excellent material.

I went through this Bible study with a small group, and although I have been a pastor for years, I learned a lot of fantastic principles about discipleship that I had not learned before, especially about leading others to discipleship.My only complaint is not about the content but the book binding. By the end of the study, it was coming loose, and pages were falling out. It woiuld probably be better with a spiral binding.

This is a much needed and excellent resource for Christian leaders equipping others for the work of discipleship. It is a 12 week study with practical applications for participants to grow spiritually in discipleship. It is not intended for brand new believers, rather it is geared toward believers who have some maturity of faith and are desiring to learn a practical way to disciple others. I've used the book with several groups now and will continue to use it. I would give it 5 stars for the content but the binding on the edition I purchased is terrible and the book began falling apart during my second time using it. We purchased quite a few and all of the bindings are terrible. But again, the content is worth figuring out how to keep the book itself together.

I have been discipling people for 40 years and this is the best manual I have ever seen. It divides the discipling process into faith-sized steps and encourages the disciples to take them. It also helps disciplers to evaluate where on the road to maturity their disciples are and suggests what to do to help their disciples take the next step. It grounds its ideas in the Scripture, but then illustrates them with true stories from daily life. We are using this resource as we attempt to provide each member of our church with the kind of individualized spiritual coaching Paul says he gives each of his disciples in 1 Thes 2:11. If Roger Bannister could only break the 4 minute mile barrier after he got a coach, how much more does each one of us need personalized coaching to run the race God sets before us? The Real Life Discipleship Training Manual is a wonderful resource for the Holy Spirit to use as he leads you to obey Jesus' last command to make disciples.

Bought the booklet thinking that it came as a resource unfortunately it was just a booklet and no resource that goes with the manual to have a read. I would have thought for the price it was Manual that came with a booklet. It’s a great book but now il have to get hold of a separate booklet that will help me to correlate it with the manual.

Good book for group study. The leader does not have to read first- preset questions in the back, Loved it as a student and led 2 groups through it. Found it to be a bit long - 12 weeks

An excellent resource! The books is right on target and does an awesome job of providing clarity on what it means to follow Jesus and not just agree with him. It also provides an excellent, simple, practical framework to guide others as they discover how to be intentional, build safe, relational environments and be on mission with Him. Working through this book with our group was not just an intellectual exercise, it brought real transformation. Can't recommend it enough.

Real Life Ministries and Navigators have teamed up to create a wonderful tool in helping train Christ followers. Understanding the "life cycle" of a Christ follower, moving from being a baby Christian, through spiritual infancy, childhood and into young adult hood and then spiritual parenting is very helpful, practical and insightful. I have used this resource many times and it really gives people some solid thinking and motivation to grow and move forward in following Christ and in how to influence and develop others....

The content is very good, however after only 3 days use, several pages are literally falling out!