Jim newheiser, executive director, institute for biblical counseling and discipleship gospel centered counseling is a book that ought to be in every biblical counselors library. Jeremy writebol is the executive director of gospel centered discipleship, a ministry that publishes resources to help make, mature, and multiply disciples of jesus. Div, thm is the founding pastor of city life church in austin, tx which he started with his wife, robie, and three children. This book is an introduction to the multi book study devoted. You will be introduced to the spiritual growth grid and how three critical gospel storylines within it tie to our growth as disciples of jesus.
Gospelcentered discipleship is an authentic recentering of discipleship around the gospel of grace, in the context of community, for the mission of god. Some people emphasize evangelismsharing their faith. Avoiding extremes and evaluating motives, jonathan dodsons gospel centered discipleship. Dodson mdiv, thm is the founding pastor of city life church in austin, texas. Gospelcentered discipleship crossway community church. Douglas birdsall, executive chair, the lausanne movement.
The author of this psalm wants to see generation after generation setting their hope in god, not forgetting god, and keeping the commands of. It is a conversation that has become increasingly popular over the past decade. Dodson s book sheds a great deal of light on a topic that is widely known, constantly discussed, but rarely understood. In gospelcentered discipleship, jonathan pulls together all these different themes gospel, mission, discipleship, church, and spiritinto an integrated whole. How to train your youth group for real ministry crossway. Were proud to release our latest book, tracing the thread, by christy rood. Jeremy writebol is the executive director of gospelcentered discipleship. Authors such as jerry bridges, tim keller, tim chester, elyse fitzpatrick, tullian tchvidjian, and jeff vanderstelt have helped us to understand that the gospel s goal is not to simply save us. The books are now available from most major booksellers, and you can take the gospel discipleship assessment here at ministry matters. This book helps us understand and experience the fullness of. See more of gospel centered discipleship on facebook.
Gospel centered discipleship, and the unbelievable gospel. Gcd exists to publish resources that help make, mature, and multiply disciples of jesus. In light of this, todays post includes a brief introduction to gcd. Morris is also still working with individuals and churches as her availability allows. We have a stash of great articles, some ebooks, more articles currently being written, and curriculum should be available down the road.
Gospelcentered discipleship is a simple way to express what god calls all followers of. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading gospelcentered discipleship. In cultures around the world, disciples lean away from the gospel toward religious performance or spiritual license. Bob thune is a rising star in the evangelical church today, and his gospel eldership. Not only was it a great onetime read, but ive highlighted so many great points and bible verses that ill keep coming back to this book as a resource, along with my bible, for years to come. John pierce approached wda about partnering with gordon conwell theological seminary in a discipleship venture. Proclaiming jesus is a call to teach and preach that which is of first importance. Gospel centered discipleship this is an outstanding book.
Gcd books aim to help the church make, mature, and multiply disciples of jesus. As a recipient of gods grace, he enjoys communicating the gospel of jesus and christ formed in others. The purpose of the gcd writers cohort is to cultivate and support developing. He is a careful thinker, robustly biblical, and fiercely articulate. This week were highlighting jonathan dodson as he talks with us about his book, gospel centered. Gospel centered discipleship provides a much needed call to keep the gospel at the heart of our efforts to follow jesus. His aim in writing this book was to not write a book outlining the biblical theology of discipleship, or a book purely discussing. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Gcd is a resourcing ministry with the purpose of helping make, mature, and multiply disciples of jesus. Guidelines for article pitches, longform article submissions, and book proposals. Gospel centered discipleship devotionals think eternity. All of that, and so much more, comes through in gospel eldership. Gospelcentered discipleship river oaks community church.
Gcd press, gospel amnesia, gospel centered discipleship, luma. This is the premise behind jonathan dodsons new book, gospel centered discipleship. The john and lois pierce center for disciple building emerged and remains a significant destination for helping people progress to christian maturity. He is also the lead campus pastor of woodside bible churchs plymouth campus in southeast michigan. The gospel of jesus is the good news that christ died for our sins making it possible for us to be at peace with god and assured of eternity with him. About team history faith statement financial stewardship initiatives. From start to finish, jonathan dodsons first fulllength book is about the gospel and discipleshiprefreshingly so. He is the author of our good crisis, here in spirit. You will discover key beliefs and practices every disciple of jesus needs. While making disciples over the past fifteen years, and training many pastors all over the world, i continue to see and hear the need for more christ centered wisdom in discipleship. Orphanology awakening to gospel centered adoption and orphan care. Ward, smoking his pipe, watching scifi, and going for walks. Gospelcentered discipleship exists to cultivate writers.
Becoming fullyformed disciples of jesus, can serve as a tour guide through the various aspects of discipleship, of helping and calling people to follow the risen christ from start evangelism to finish glorification. The second book ive wished for is one that would situate the task of discipleship specifically within the missional calling of the church. It is meant to be the very center of our lives as followers of christ. Bob kellemen has dedicated his life to thinking deeply about the way the. There is an extensive team of people behind gcd and they put together lots of helpful material. Equipping a new generation of servant leaders reveals why.
This will involve transformed publishing a number of posts curated by gcd, as well as gcd crossposting select transformed content. Gospelcentered discipleship christian books, bibles. Gospel centered discipleship a couple of years ago, the need for reliable gospel centered resources on all things discipleship became apparent. Since then, our site traffic has continued to improve, gcd books has grown exponentially, and our staff has. I was thrilled to discover that jonathan dodson has managed to write both of these books in one.
A gospel centered disciple returns to the gospel over and over again, to receive, apply, and spread gods forgiveness and grace into every aspect of life. Read more about the new book here and some of its endorsements. But to protect this gospel, god has given the church, which is the pillar and buttress of the truth 1 tim. An introduction to gospelcentered discipleship clear. Dodson lays out a compelling case for what gospel centered discipleship looks like and why the gospel is of first importance in discipleship 1 corinthians 15. He is the husband of stephanie and father of allison and ethan. Eventbrite gospel centered discipleship presents gcd writers intensive monday, april, 2020 at sojourn church midtown, louisville, ky.
Today, i want to share with you five aspects of gospel centered discipleship gcd. Articles on making, maturing, and multiplying disciples of jesus. The idea of gospelcentered discipleship is nothing new. Ive been casting about for a while looking for that perfect book or resource to use with either new christians, people whove been christians for a while but dont seem to be growing, or people who are not christians but are willing to consider the claims of the gospel.
The best book ive read for new and renewed followers of jesus. Gospel centered youth ministry cameron cole, jon nielson. In this post, the author looks back to four 1st century religious groups, and shows how their shortcomings serve to instruct us today. The first part of the book defines discipleship while deconstructing the false dichotomy between discipleship and evangelism. Gospelcentered discipleship writers tailored coach. Pastor tony merida asks these foundational questions to arrive at this overview of his book, faithful preaching. Gospelcentered discipleship kindle edition by dodson, jonathan k. Over the coming months, westerns transformed blog will be partnering with gospelcentered discipleship gcd.
As a result, disciples burn out or drift from devotion to jesus. This article is reposted with permission from gospel centered discipleship. Gcd writers intensive tickets, mon, apr, 2020 at 12. Over the coming months, westerns transformed blog will be partnering with gospel centered discipleship gcd. Bob kellemen has dedicated his life to thinking deeply about the way the good news of jesus christ intersects all of life and ministry. When i brandon smith took the helm at gospel centered discipleship in 20, i saw great potential in the ministrys ability to continue its already stellar reputation for resourcing churches to make, mature, and multiply disciples. Books videos speaking bible studies communities free e books monthly digest prayer requests get involved about. Gospelcentered discipleship kindle edition by dodson. Todays post is being run in partnership with gospelcentered discipleship gcd, and is an excerpt from aaron morrows new book about living out and proclaiming the gospel in a small town context. Still others promote a hierarchical system for spiritual growth, a way for older christians to pass on best practices to younger believers. This comprehensive handbook looks at every facet of youth ministry from a gospel centered perspective, offering practical advice related to everything from planning shortterm mission trips to interacting with parents to. As part of our bcc vision, we want to help you to get to know gifted christian authors and their books.
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