The Essential Commandment: A Disciple’s Guide to Loving God and Others (IVP Essentials)
Overview
In this practical, in-depth handbook, Ogden draws from his years of pastoral experience training and discipling others to help us truly be changed by Christ into people who love God and love others with all that we are. Following the format of his bestselling Discipleship Essentials, each chapter includes a core truth, a memory verse, an inductive Bible study, and a reading on one aspect of the Great Commandment. Thoughtful questions will also help you examine your heart and life and move you to open yourself to God’s transforming work. Above all, Ogden helps you see that the Great Commandment is actually a great invitation to join God in bringing his kingdom to earth. And as you learn to do so, you’ll find that the greatest commandment leads to the greatest life possible.
- Title: The Essential Commandment: A Disciple’s Guide to Loving God and Others
- Author: Greg Ogden
- Publisher: IVP
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Love › Biblical teaching--Textbooks; God › Worship and love--Biblical teaching--Textbooks; Christian life › Biblical teaching--Textbooks
- ISBNs: 9780830869435, 9780830810888, 0830869433, 0830810889
- Resource ID: LLS:SSNTLCMMNDMTHRS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:09:38Z
Greg Ogden (DMin, Fuller Theological Seminary) lives out his passion of speaking, teaching, and writing about the disciple-making mission of the church after spending twenty-four years in pastoral ministry. Most recently Greg served as executive pastor of discipleship at Christ Church of Oak Brook in the Chicago western suburbs. From 1998-2002, Greg held the position of director of the Doctor of Ministry program at Fuller Theological Seminary and associate professor of lay equipping and discipleship.
Greg is the author of several books such as Unfinished Business, Discipleship Essentials, Transforming Discipleship, Leadership Essentials (with coauthor Daniel Meyer), and The Essential Commandment. He is a partner in the Global Discipleship Initiative (GDI), which trains, coaches, and inspires pastors and Christian leaders to establish indigenous, multiplying, disciplemaking networks, both nationally and internationally. Greg and his wife, Lily, have been married more than forty-five years and have one adult daughter and two grandchildren.