Fontes Press Ministry and Discipleship Guides (3 vols.)
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
These guides serves as a crash course on the basic tenets of the Christian faith. Ministers, leaders, or capable laypersons can work through these guides with new believers to ensure that they understand the faith to which they have committed themselves. The time spent together in this guide will also form the basis for an ongoing spiritual mentorship. This work is intended for pastors, elders, church leaders, and laymen to use to disciple new believers. When a person repents, trusts in Christ, and begins following him, we must disciple them (Matthew 28:18–20). Discipleship includes teaching the faith and modeling it with our lives, which involves an ongoing relationship with God and with those whom we are discipling.
The content is intentionally aimed at the intellect, although content and discussion questions do invite the reader to reflect on whether they have truly been saved. The reason for omitting life-application content and discussion questions is to ensure that this guide has a singular, measurable objective: to confirm that new believers actually understand the faith they claim to hold. Leaders can move toward practical application if they wish, given their own setting and abilities. But the guide is written so that each user will achieve the same goal of comprehending the basics of the faith, which should create a firm foundation on which to grow in the faith. The final chapter provides the user with “next steps,” including the various ways in which we grow in our faith and some resources to set them in the right direction.
- Provides a helpful guide for discipling new believers
- Explores the basics of spiritual disciplines
- Explains the upward, inward, outward, and onward dimensions of the Christian faith
- Title: Fontes Press Ministry and Discipleship Guides (3 vols.)
- Series: Ministry and Discipleship Guides
- Publisher:
- Volumes: 3
- Pages: 246
- Resource Type: Introductions
- Topic: Ministry Resources