church disciplemaking Disciplemaking Compass Midwest Region Disciplemaking Leadership Team partners with Ukrainian churches and disciplemakers
if you love me obey my commandments Love God, Love Others What does the Great Commandment look like on the ground, in our day-to-day lives?
kenya Multiplying Disciples in the Heart of Africa As the disciplemaking movement across the world continues with nearly 40 translations, we rejoice to see indigenous individuals catch the vision of the early church growing larger by being smaller through MicroGroups using Discipleship Essentials.
how to study the Bible How to Study the Bible for Spiritual Transformation True transformation happens “not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit” (Zechariah 4:6), not by human willpower, but by the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit through a surrendered heart.
kenya Disciplemaking in Kenya Swahili is the native language of Kenya. To meet the disciplemaking focus there, Discipleship Essentials, the main training tool for making disciples who make disciples, was translated just in time! Ralph Rittenhouse, along with a team of others, have been in Kenya for a week now, and the remainder of
retreat The Power of a Retreat: Stepping Away to Be Renewed Take time to step away. Rest in the presence of God. Return with a heart ready to serve, a mind at peace, and a spirit overflowing with joy.
GDI International Leadership Summit GDI International Leadership Summit Would you prayerfully allow the Holy Spirit to speak to you about what you might do to make this gathering a reality?
public-private-core-beliefs Who Are You at the Core? Our actions are always the result of our core purposes or convictions.
dwell Jesus Actually Thinks We Can Become Like Him We walk carefully between the shoals of self-sufficiency by being in touch with our capacity for self-deception, yet at the same time energized by the new capacity that God’s grace has given us to become the redeemed people in whom Christ dwells.
MicroGroups Worldwide, Greg Ogden, Ukraine Ukraine Under Fire “O our God, …we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on You.”
justice and mercy Grace and Law We find within a new motivation and a desire to want to become all that God hopes us to be. We begin to understand that His yoke is easy and his burden is light, because our inner affections are being transformed to love what God loves. The law we hated now becomes the life we have always wanted.
mentor or coach Transforming Discipleship Discipleship covenant (promise) is a transformational tool, different from a contract (give-to-get) transactional agreement.
program of discipleship Barcode Christianity If we can be “rung up by the great scanner in the sky,” then eternal life is assured. With this understanding of the Christian life, what is the need to have a transformed life? Dallas Willard has dubbed this as “bar code” Christianity.
GDI Bombs, Bibles, and Brotherhood: A Journey to Support Ukraine's Shepherds Encouraging the Church in Ukraine one pastor at a time in the middle of the war zone
Dawson Trotman Born to Reproduce Born to Reproduce is the message from Dawson Trotman in 1955 about multiplication and followup after evangelism.
GDI - Greg Ogden Video Studio Multiplication: Through the Generations How can you instill in others the internalized commitment to discipling others for everyone to fulfill The Great Commission? Matthew 28:18-20 is not only for pastors, priests, and missionaries. Jesus calls every disciple-believer to fulfill the call to multiplication.
Figi MicroGroups Surf's Up! Oceania MicroGroups Discipleship Essentials is a transformative personal investment in worldwide disciplemaking for all who follow The Great Commission of Jesus Christ in Matthew 28:18-20.
SOAP Before the Rush: Still Moments with the Savior SOAP devotional time makes a difference. Jesus is waiting for me to meet with Him. The Holy Spirit is reminding me and bringing words alive! I am energized instead of robotically reading and listening for specific application. No more empty ritual to perform.
Greg Ogden Discipleship Essential How to Grow in Christ Jesus had a big enough vision to think small. Focusing on a few did not limit his influence. Rather, it expanded it. Discipleship Essentials is designed to help us influence others as Jesus did—by investing in a few.
discipleship essentials Over 300,000 copies Ideally designed for groups of three, Discipleship Essentials can also be read as an individual study program, a one-on-one discipling tool, or a small group curriculum. This expanded and completely updated edition also includes a new leader’s guide.
disciplemaking journey Making Disciples a Few at a Time GDI is not a program or a one-time class—but a lifestyle change for accelerated spiritual growth in a relational environment, for ordinary people everywhere since God's call is on all of us, not only leaders and pastors.
MicroGroups Worldwide, Greg Ogden, Ukraine Greg Ogden Goes to War (Zone): Ukraine In our Global Discipleship Initiative (GDI) ministry, we get to partner with heroes. I mean that. Igor is one of them. Even as we pray for the cessation of the senseless killing in Ukraine and a just ending to the war, Kingdom work goes on.
Yom Kippur The Passover Lamb Easter is coming with Passover to signal deliverance, simultaneously satifying God's justice through saving faith of being disciples.
Go Micro MicroGroups MicroGroups Unite Catholics and Protestants Set aside differences and focus on Jesus Christ
