Real-Life Discipleship

Building Churches That Make Disciples

By: Jim Putman

Narrated by: Lance Smith

Real-Life Discipleship explains what should happen in the life of every Christian and in every small group so that the church becomes an army of believers dedicated to seeing the world saved. With the overriding goal to train disciples who know how to make more disciples, this book offers proven tools and strategies from Real Life Ministries, one of America’s fastest-growing churches. Discover what the Bible says about true and effective discipleship with these strategies and practices.

It's fantastic!

Kurt Skelly goes bit by bit through the Bible and lays it out beautifully. He gives me a new perspective and thoughts I simply didn't have before on Bible passages.

a must for church developement

This is a practical guide to discipleship with proven repeatable methods. This has a workbook for small groups that is available too.

Building something from what you have.

Great ideas, philosophies, and tools. Learning that through fundamentals is how foundation is constructed. See how God and Jesus work through us.

Inspiring and Practical in Disciple-making

Not a lot of books are both inspiring and practical but this one is definitely both. The need to let people know that all of us are invited to be disciple-makers not just disciples is firmly shared here but not left there to just dangle in your mind. Jim Putman has not just lived out this disciple-making in the past but continues to not only do it himself, not just "assign" it to others, but shares a "system" that is meant to be adapted in various contexts but able to be used to move ahead to train others.

Yes, he shares a system but more importantly he lets the listener and reader know that not only did Jesus invite us to be disciples and disciple-makers but that we can do this. Not alone. Not with a system. But by trusting in the Holy Spirit to not keep Jesus to ourselves.

Stages of Descipleship and "Oralising" Bible stories

The explanation of 5 stages of Christian Descipleship is eye opening, and the process of turning the Bible Stories into to oral stories is genius.