Resources for Coordinators
Congratulations! You’ve decided to commit to helping your congregation grow as disciples of Jesus. Now it’s time to spread the word. Your church’s newsletter, bulletin, or a bulletin insert are good avenues for communicating with your congregation about Disciples. Below are some resources to help you do just that.
Logo
Download the Disciples logo in color or black and white.
Downloadable Brochure
Click here to download a Disciples brochure.
Sample Bulletin Announcements
- We are called to be disciples of Jesus—to practice following him so we can be the presence of Christ in a lost and broken world. Join us we discuss Follow Me, the first book in the Disciples series. Sign up today!
- Learn more about the Great Commission, “Go and make disciples” (Matt. 28), by joining our study of Disciples. The small group study will meet on Sunday mornings at [time]. Come and participate as we grow in faith together.
- Following Jesus is a life-long journey—and it’s a journey we make together. We can learn from each other how to be better disciples of Jesus. Sign up today to join a small group study of the Disciples materials.
- Disciples is a program of faith formation for adults, because we never outgrow our need to learn and grow in the faith. It’s a comprehensive, sustained approach to following Jesus more closely. Sign up for our small group study today.
- How do we become more like Jesus in all we think, do, and say? How can we grow as followers of Jesus? Join a Disciples small group so that we can wrestle with these and other questions together. Sign up today.
Sample Newsletter Articles and/or Bulletin Inserts
Go Ahead and Grow!
At its most basic level, living the Christian life comes down to one thing: growing as a disciple of Jesus. A disciple is one who practices following Jesus Christ—becoming like him in all we think, say, and do, through the power of the Holy Spirit, to be the very presence of Christ in a lost and broken world.
Join our study of Disciples, a comprehensive, sustained approach to growing in faith. This fall we will
- focus on what it means to be a follower of Jesus in our daily devotions at home with Follow Me: Daily Readings for Disciples.
- participate in worship services focused on discipleship.
- discuss discipleship in small groups using a series of discussion guides developed for this purpose. We will begin by studying the first discussion guide, Follow Me.
Additional resources are available for participant and leaders at www.growdisciples.org.
Go ahead and grow!
Drive Like a Christian?
Jesus gave us the Great Commission in Matthew 28: “Go and make disciples.” That is our goal as Jesus’ followers. How does that change the way we live? How does it affect our driving, our shopping, our banking, and the way we spend our time?
Study Disciples and learn more about how we should live everyday. We will learn more about the joys and challenges of being disciples in our worship services, wrestle with these ideas in our small groups, and spend time focusing on them at home in our daily devotions. More resources are available at www.growdisciples.org.
So will we answer that question about driving? You’ll only find out if you come!
Grow Disciples
“Nondiscipleship is ‘the elephant in the church.’ What feeds that elephant and keeps it strong is the absence of effectual programs of training that enable (God’s) people to do what Jesus said in a regular and efficient manner.” (Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy)
Jesus calls us to “make disciples.” And that’s what we’re trying to do—with small groups, worship, adult education programs, Sunday school, sermons, and midweek programs, to name a few. But Dallas Willard has a point. Discipleship is an assignment from Jesus himself.
To follow Jesus we need an intentional disciple-making program. Disciples is that program. Itprovides a comprehensive, sustained approach to growing in faith. This fall we will
- focus on what it means to be a follower of Jesus in our daily devotions at home with Follow Me: Daily Readings for Disciples.
- participate in worship services focused on discipleship.
- discuss discipleship in small groups using a series of discussion guides developed for this purpose. We will begin by studying the first discussion guide, Follow Me.
Together we can take another step in our path of lifelong Christian discipleship.
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