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Disciple Study - David Platt

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I've been looking at several group study curriculums fort discipleship groups next session beginning in January.

We have only been together as a group for about 4 months. We started with Crazy Love (Francis Chan) which was great, but my group really seems to want to understand the nuts and bolts of personal discipleship. There are a bunch of curriculum that go over this. I've landed on "Follow Me" by David Platt.

I read Radical when it first came out, but I don't think this group is quite ready for that. I'm reading the follow me book right now and it seems solid.

I'm just looking for some honest feedback on the "Follow Me" Study, how it was received, what kind of audience it best targets and any other insight from people who've used it before. Thanks
 

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I am not sure what material that all is, but the best I have seen on the subject is the "Intentional" seminar by Scott Brown. He held it at our congregation last summer. He gave an abbreviated version at the Chosen People conference last spring.

He uses it for missions training in his mission post in New Zealand.

You could probably contact him to see what he has thru Son of David Congregation.
www.sonofdavid.org
 
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BTW - here is an interesting article on the subject:



This is one of the most well-known passages in our Gospels. It’s the passage that every missionary organization speaks about and uses to inspire people to action. In fact, it is these words that our Master left us with before His ascension to the Heavenlies! It reminds us of Jacob’s last words to his sons before He left to sleep with his fathers. He wanted to leave them with very important, weighty words that they would take with them throughout their generations. And here in Matthew, Jesus is doing the same. This is His last chance to speak into the lives of His disciples in such a tangible way. What would he say to us? Would He speak to us of the value and character of love? Would He give us final eschatological instructions before the rough times come? No. Rather He spoke to us of a very Jewish concept—the institution of discipleship.

Throughout the last 2000 years, we in the Christian Church have extended the message of the Gospel into much of the known world. We’ve traveled into the farthest reaches of the globe to share a message about Jesus of Nazareth to the various tribes and clans that we know of. We’ve gone in groups of two or three. Some of our forefathers even carried the message alone. We’ve held services in stadiums with tens of thousands of eager ears listening to the words of a preacher. By the millions people, have heard the message, believed the message and given their hearts to this Rabbi from Israel. Often times, in the wake of these events, you’ll hear the cry of lament that we don’t have the resources to properly disciple these many new converts. These converts have had an internal change, yet they are left to themselves and more often than not, the world’s pressures pull them right back into the same lifestyle that they were formally living.

We feel the need for discipleship. After all, Jesus didn’t tell us to go and make converts; He told us to make disciples! But unfortunately, to many of us, making disciples means leading converts through a 12-week course on the elementary principles of our faith. We look at Jesus’ teachings on love and forgiveness. We talk about the necessity of reading our Bibles and spending personal time in prayer every day. We touch on subjects like the life of the Spirit vs. legalism, the fruit of the Spirit vs. the works of the flesh, love of God vs. love of the world, etc. And these are all important and necessary subjects to talk about with new believers, but is it quite fulfilling Jesus’ intent to make disciples? I don’t think so.

https://heartofgodisrael.org/messianic-messages/discipleship-is-jewish/
 
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Thanks for the article. That's a great read.

As a past and future missionary, discipleship is a major passion of mine. Doing discipleship here in the US has some subtle and some significant contextual differences than in the mission field. Part of the group I'm with needs some motivation to disciple others and part of the group is motivated but doesn't know how. I need a curriculum that can help me accomplish both of these things. Do you think the "Son of David" one would be a good choice for that?
 
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