A Field Guide for a Living Faith

What happens when every church believes they are answering a call to make disciples but mosts Christians, raised the church, feel ill-equipped to disciple and new or younger believer?

Small-Batch Disciplemaking is designed to be read in community, presumably with someone further along or inviting to take next steps. It provides fresh language and “rhythms” to experiment with the incarnational of life of Jesus. Since discipleship isn’t a program or a class, Small-Batch fuels an imagination for living on mission as “sent ones” regardless of your day job. Each chapter includes interactive exercises to discern the work of God in you while finding the words to express the difference Christ is making. And most notably, this “field guide” offers practical imagination to spiritually reproduce your life in Christ alongside other pilgrims.

  • "The disciplemaking process was never supposed to happen en masse."

  • "The discipler’s role is to see potential in another — seeing who they can become in Christ — and to help identify a trajectory for them on mission."

  • "If salvation is to a Christian as sobriety is to an alcoholic, we need to have a vision to be similarly invested in one another’s spiritual growth, for their sake as much as for our own."

  • "Some people think that God is looking for results, but Scripture tells us that He’s looking for fruit. The difference is that results are what happens around us; fruit is what happens inside us."

  • "Something happens when a group of people who are curious about expressing faith and concerned about the vulnerable and marginalized choose to be uncomfortable and inconvenienced together."

  • "The rhythm of renewal is about re-sensitizing our hearts so we hear God’s whisper, respond when and yield when God prompts."

  • “Community is discovering what we have in common with others—specifically, people who are seemingly unlike us—merely because we all bear the image of God.”

  • “Life change doesn’t happen in a bubble. We need others to speak into our lives as much as we need to invest in others. Find a person or group to ‘think out loud’ with.”

Join a Disciplemaking Cohort!

If we believe the resurrection signifies new life, then it suggests a Christian’s mission- as part of God’s grace - is to reproduce their life in Christ. My passion is to fan this flame for the sake of the church - to leverage faith, experience, and influence in relational, missional, and reproductive ways.

This cohort creates the peer-led, relational infrastructure for support as well as a personalized, experiential roadmap. A cohort can be tailored for your context. Generally, one might last 8 months to absorb, animate, and articulate faith. More than a book study, it’s about finding a rhythm for mission while seeing who God might reveal to apprentice. The book's inter-actives help shape your disciple-making roadmap to begin apprenticing. 

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Intro to the Rhythms

More than just a Sunday-go-to-church faith, what if earnest Christ-followers found a rhythm to animate a living faith enables us experience the heart of God, leverage faith for the benefit of skeptics & marginalized, and instill it in those closest?

Intro to Rhythms

A brief intro to the topic covered in this video

Rhythm 1: Apprenticing

Growing faith by identifying people further along but also to inviting others to follow you.

Rhythm 2: Renewal

- Cultivating a growing awareness to God’s presence as we yield to the prompts of the Spirit.

Rhythm 3: Hospitality

Expressing faith in how we make room for others AND receive from others as we discover whom God’s prepared in advance.

Rhythm 4: Community

Discovering one’s potential while finding their contribution. 

Rhythm 5: Compassion

Crossing social divides while learning to see others needs as merely different than our own. 

Rhythm 6: Generosity

Giving not to save anyone but saving ourselves from believing we deserve God’s provision. 

Rhythm 7: Gratitude

Experiencing the names of God and experimenting with postures to align our hearts declaring God’s worth.

Check out these sample downloads from the book!

Since we all learn differently, each chapter includes a section of inter-actives called, “Finding Your Rhythm.” More than growing in knowledge, this “field guide” seeks to help you put words to how you feel and to tailor your learning. What’s more, since we can’t self-help our way to transformation, these inter-actives - ideally alongside a discipler or apprentice - might help discern the voice of God past, present, and in the days to come.