OnMission Recommended Resources
Websites
Focus on Discipleship
This excellent group of resources comes from our Kalaheo Missionary Church on Kauai in Hawaii. The pastor, John Zimmerman, had led this church through revitalization and the church is now seeing multiple new disciples and numerous groups launched. The website linked here is the “generic” one that any church or group could use. If you would like to get more information about the church or the process they followed you can connect to the church website here: Kalaheo Missionary Church.
Verge Network.
This website has all kinds of articles and videos on discipleship, disciple making and missional communities. Many are free when you create a free account. You can also take online courses on disciple making featuring some of the well known pastors, speakers and leaders in this area. These usually have a fee.
Building Church Leaders.
Anything related to the church you will find here. Over 500 training tools. Usually the first stop when looking for resources to lead the church forward. Each training module is around $15, but the best deal is an annual subscription for $149.95. With this you have unlimited downloads all year.
Books
The books below will help you with a deeper understanding of some of the On Mission topics. Many of these resources will also give practical implementation ideas to help you live the concepts out in your life as well as equip others.
Believe Series (30 Key Areas for our Christian Life)
Believe: Living the Story of the Bible to Become Like Jesus. Randy Frazee.
Believe Study Guide. Randy Frazee.
Think, Act, Be Like Jesus: Becoming a New Person in Christ. Randy Frazee.
9 Arts Series (Q Place)
The 9 Arts of Spiritual Conversations: Walking Alongside People Who Believe Differently. Mary Schaller and John Crilly.
Practicing the 9 Arts of Spiritual Conversations. Q Place Primer.
Starfish Movement: Unleashing the Unstoppable Mission of Jesus. Dan Grider.
Crucial Conversations: Bridging the Awkward Spiritual Gap. Dan Grider.
Real-Life Discipleship: Building Churches That Make Disciples. Jim Putman.
DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church Make Disciples Who Make Disciples. Jim Putman.
Game Plan: Developing Intentional Missional Ministry. Tim Roehl.
Stay the Course: Seven Essential Practices for Disciple Making Churches. Grandon Guindon.
Brian is a leader of one of the micro churches in Connect Florida. He recently wrote a book to help believers grow in their faith. The book is based on a travel theme and covers many topics that believers will encounter in their discipleship journey. Small group and personal study resources are available on the website for free downloads. Brian has a large following on social media and on this website you can find dozens of videos related to this book.
Like Jesus series by Dann Spader
A great tool for local churches to help people become disciples and make disciples. Three books are in the series:
4 Chair Discipling (moving people from seeker to believer to worker to disciple-maker)
Walk Like Jesus (who He calls us to be)
Live Like Jesus (how He calls us to make disciples)
In the leaders kit is a leaders manual and links to videos, worksheets and ideas for guiding the church through the process of being Like Jesus. There is also an app called Like Jesus that groups can use to navigate through the process.
Books by Dr. Stephen Swihart related to various On Mission topics and the Believe series. makingdisciples.us
A great collection of tools for one on one discipleship and totally free. The link takes you to the website where you can download all the materials. In On Mission training we emphasis grounding new believers in their faith and helping growing believers with the “three connects:” Connecting with God, Connecting with Each Other, and Connecting with the Community. We refer to this as UP, IN, OUT. Small Circle resources touch on these areas. Included in the series:
NEXT: designed for new believers.
xChange0: foundational beliefs.
xChange1: connecting with God.
xChange2: connecting with each other.
xChange3: connecting with the community
These materials are available in 20 languages. There is a mobile app as well which includes a section called MIX in addition to all the above that addresses additional topics. These are great tools that, in the words of Small Circle, “get everyone in the game” of making disciples who make disciples.