Growing Up provides you with an interactive manual and resource for creating and working with discipleship groups, allowing you to gain positive information both for yourself and for others as you learn how to help others become better disciples for Christ. D-Groups, as Gallaty calls them, can teach you and others how to grow your relationship with God, how to defend your faith, and how to guide others in their relationships with God. This guide offers a manual for making disciples, addressing the what, why, where, and how of discipleship. In Growing Up: How to Be a Disciple Who Makes Disciples, Robby Gallaty presents a practical, easy-to-implement system for growing in one's faith. The men who emerged from that group took the gospel to the world and ultimately laid down their lives for Christ.ĭiscipleship groups can create an atmosphere for fellowship, encouragement, and accountability-building an environment where God can work. Jesus established this model for us by forming and leading the first discipleship group-and it worked. is disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255.If you are serious about being a disciple of Jesus Christ-really, truly serious-a discipleship group can help you achieve that goal. Foreword Reviews and Clarion Reviews make no guarantee that the publisher will receive a positive review. Robby Gallaty, Growing Up: How to Be a Disciple. It is intimately walking in communion with the Father through living, loving, and spending time with God. The publisher of this book provided free copies of the book and paid a small fee to have their book reviewed by a professional reviewer. It is this personal knowledge that is the basis of discipleship, and it involves more than reading the Bible, memorizing Scripture, and praying. Growing Up is successfully designed as a manual for evangelicals looking to form disciple groups, as its depth of resources can be referred to often.ĭisclosure: This article is not an endorsement, but a review. He is also very rigid and specific about what it means to be a disciple, so the book could have limited appeal beyond those who agree this approach to active discipleship is the only way to be a serious disciple of Jesus. For example, Gallaty discusses how he was raised Catholic, and he describes Catholics as people who are not as engaged as evangelicals because they do not demonstrate their faith through memorization of Bible passages. The ideas could even be unappealing to people of Christian denominations that are not evangelical. However, the book alone is unlikely to persuade people who do not already support evangelization to adopt the concept. The book provides a detailed plan to take the next step and form D-groups. The uplifting stories and suggestions Gallaty offers for others to follow in his footsteps will reinforce beliefs for those who already support evangelization. He also establishes his credibility on the topic early on, not only because of his work as a pastor, but because of his willingness to share how he was a former drug dealer who transformed his life. The tone is conversational and friendly, and by using second person to speak to the reader, Gallaty directly engages the audience with thought-provoking questions sprinkled throughout. ![]() There are several appendices serving as a mini-workbooks including a pledge to commit to disciple-making, a spiritual journey inventory, a prayer log, and suggested readings. Growing Up uses the popular website Wikipedia as a model to follow for discipleship, where many volunteers are all contributing, rather than only an elite group. The second acronym, CLOSER, recommends communicating through prayer, learning, obeying, storing, evangelizing, and renewing. The first, HEAR, advises highlighting a bible passage, explaining what it means, applying it to one’s life, and responding in some way, such as with a specific prayerful statement. The book, written with Randall Collins, uses effective acronyms to present two key concepts to guide the groups. Growing Up: How to Be a Disciple Who Makes Disciples is an inspiring how-to book focused on forming disciple groups with the purpose of creating godly habits and evangelizing the Christian faith.Īuthor Robby Gallaty, a senior pastor at Brainerd Baptist Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee, recommends disciple groups, or D-groups, be three to five same-sex people who meet weekly. ![]() I’m impressed with Robby’s story and want you to know about his work. Gallaty shows us the Wikipedia model of discipleship, where many volunteers are all contributing. 1 A pastor friend, Robby Gallaty, releases a new book this month on making disciples.
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