Since I started putting content online in 2006, one of my great passions is passing on what I am learning and developing resources to give away online. At one point I was putting my small group lesson curriculum online and those got around a quarter million downloads!
So now, it is time to make you aware of 17 free tools that I have put online that you can use to prepare for what’s coming. I believe things are being shaken up (for the good) and I want us all to be prepared for what’s next for Christianity in the USA.
Tool 01 – The Disciple Making Group Process (Download)
This is a simple guide to starting your first disciple making group. It helps you know how to make a list of people to invite, structure of the group, weekly meeting patterns and how to reproduce a group.
Tool 02 – Establishing a Fasting Rhythm (Download)
A fasting rhythm is one of the most important disciplines you can implement as a follower of Jesus (as long as your health allows it). Fasting helps you surrender control and get in tune with God on a deeper level. This is a simple guide to get you started.
Tool 03 – Discover Your Spiritual Gift: APEST (Download)
This guide defines the gifts from Ephesians 4:11, how to identify your spiritual gift(s) and how to affirm and use gifts in community with other disciples.
Tool 04 – How to Prayer Walk (Download)
Prayer walking is a powerful way to engage your neighborhood and community. This is one way to watch God answer prayer in real time, share the love of Jesus in your neighborhood and build your faith all while impacting the lives of people.
Tool 05 – Finding a Person of Peace (Download)
Jesus instructed his disciples to find a person of peace when they went out on mission in Luke 10. We can still find people of peace today. You may find them on a prayer walk or in conversation with a neighbor. These are people who can help you make more inroads and relationships into your community. This guide defines them and helps you know when you have found a person of peace.
Tool 06 – Studies for Seekers (Download)
- Jesus 101 Bible Study (Download)
This is an inductive Bible study of the Gospel of Mark. Inductive means that it allows the evidence to build and for people to take the evidence and make conclusions from the evidence about who Jesus is in the Gospel of Mark. Mark breaks down into two halves, each 8 chapters. The first 8 chapters are about who this man, Jesus really is. In the middle is Peter’s confession of Jesus and Christ/Messiah. The last 8 chapters tell us what that really means. This helps people walk through a natural discovery process through Mark.
- Good News Discipleship Study (Download)
What makes Jesus good news? This 7 lesson, 26 page study walks through the Bible on what makes following Jesus (discipleship) good news?
Tool 07 – Discovery Bible Study (Download)
DBS is a powerful tool that has been used all around the world to bring people to faith in Christ and to mature disciples by helping people get into the Bible, understand it, live it and share it. It is very simple and can help you grow!
Tool 08 – DBS Scripture Lists (Download)
Discovery Bible Study works off of finding specific scriptures to study (either expository – working through a book of the Bible) or topical. This PDF has scripture lists to help you use in Discovery Bible Study.
Tool 09 – New Neighborhood Checklist (Download)
There are certain things to look for in your neighborhood or any new neighborhood you are going to reach out into. Download this and be on the lookout!
Tool 10 – Prayer Team Expectation Document (Download)
Every time we start a new ministry or home church we form a prayer team to support the work. This document helps you know how to form a team and what to tell the team about expectations.
Tool 11 – Starting a Backyard Church Manual (Download)
This is a simple guide to starting a home church that meets outside (always with weather exceptions, of course)
Tool 12 – Home Church Equipment List (Download)
For those churches that meet outside, there are some specific things to buy to help make it go smoothly. This list has been formed through our 5 years experience meeting outside nearly every week.
Tool 13 – Prayer Cards for Your Gathering (Download)
You can print these and set these out in your gathering in order to collect prayer requests.
Tool 14 – How to Form a Prayer Culture in Your Church (Download)
There are some specific strategies you can implement to make sure your gathering and community is centered in prayer. As Shodankeh Johnson often says, “Prayer is the strategy!”
Tool 15 – How Extraordinary Prayer Can Revitalize Your Church (Download)
This guide gives you a list of daily prayer prompts to get you moving on mission as well as explanation about why prayer is essential to movement.
Tool 16 – HCR Guide to Spiritual Warfare (Download)
When you make disciples and/or plant home churches you get a bullseye on your back! Learn how to spot spiritual warfare and how to engage in it to come out the other side stronger.
Tool 17 – A Guide to Leaving a Church to Start a Church (Download)
It can be incredibly hard to know how to part ways with the church you are part of when you are called to home church. This document gives some thoughts on what that can look like in order to do this in a healthy way.
What tools would you like to see that you would find useful?
