Guide to Resources for Discipleship
Andrews, Alan, general editor. The Kingdom Life: A Practical Theology of Discipleship
and Spiritual Formation. Colorado Springs, Colo.: NavPress, 2010.
Augsburger, David. Dissident Discipleship: A Spirituality of Self-Surrender, Love of God
and Love of Neighbor. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brazos Press; Baker Books, 2006.
Barna, George. Growing True Disciples: New Strategies for Producing Genuine
Followers of Christ. Colorado Springs, Colo.: Waterbrook Press, 2001.
Boice, James Montgomery. Christ’s Call to Discipleship. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kregel,
1998.
*Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. The Cost of Discipleship. New York: Touchstone, 1995.
Originally published in German in 1937.
Bruce, Alexander B. The Training of the Twelve. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kregel, 1971.
Coleman, Robert E. The Master Plan of Evangelism. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Fleming H.
Revell; Baker Books, 1993. With Study Guide. See also, The Master Plan of
Discipleship. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Fleming H. Revell; Baker Books, 1998.
Eims, Leroy. The Lost Art of Disciple Making. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan , 1978.
Hawkins, Greg L., and Cally Parkinson. Move: What 1,000 Churches Reveal about
Spiritual Growth. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2011.
Based on the results of the Reveal Spiritual Life Survey.
Henrichsen, Walter A. Disciples are Made Not Born: Helping Others Grow to Maturity.
2nd edition. Colorado Springs, Colo.: David C. Cook, 1988. (Originally published 1974).
*Hull, Bill. The Complete Book of Discipleship: On Being and Making Followers of
Christ. Colorado Springs, Colo.: NavPress, 2006.
June, Lee N., editor. Evangelism and Discipleship in African American Churches. Grand
Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1999.
Koessler, John. True Discipleship: The Art of Following Jesus. Chicago: Moody Press,
2003.
McClung, Floyd. Basic Discipleship. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1992.
Navigators. Design For Discipleship series. New edition.
Colorado Springs, Colo.: NavPress, 2006. (6 Study Guides).
Some study guides have specific authors. See also the “2:7 Series.”
Ogden, Greg. Discipleship Essentials: A Guide to Building Your Life in Christ.
Expanded edition. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2007.
Ogden, Greg. Transforming Discipleship: Making Disciples a Few at a Time. Downers
Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2003.
Peace, Richard. Pilgrimage: A Handbook on Christian Growth. Grand Rapids, Mich.:
Baker Books, 1985.
Peterson, Eugene H. A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant
Society. 20th anniversary ed. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2000.
Putnam, Jim. Real Life Discipleship: Building Churches that Make Disciples. Colorado
Springs, Colo.: Navpress, 2010.
Sire, James W. Discipleship of the Mind. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1990.
Stott, John. The Radical Disciple: Some Neglected Aspects of Our Calling. Downers
Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2010.
Watson, David. Discipleship. 3rd edition. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001.
Biblical and Theological foundations
Longenecker, Richard N. Studies in Hermeneutics, Christology and Discipleship.
Sheffield, England: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2004.
See chapter 11, “Taking Up the Cross Daily: Discipleship in Luke-Acts.”
Longenecker, Richard N., ed. Patterns of Discipleship in the New Testament. MNTS.
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1996.
Wilkins, Michael J. “Disciples” and “Discipleship,” in Dictionary of Jesus and the
Gospels, edited by Joel B. Green, Scott McKnight, and I. Howard Marshall.
Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1992. 176-89.
Wilkins, Michael J. Following the Master: A Biblical Theology of Discipleship. Grand
Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1992.