Foundations for a Life of Discipleship
You can love Jesus, know what you believe, go to church, and serve faithfully—and still wonder why your inner life does not seem to be changing. Following Jesus is a six-week journey into a more relational, biblical, and Spirit-dependent vision of Christian discipleship.
Six weeks • Video teaching • One-page lesson summaries • Guided readings
Many Christians know what they believe but still experience a gap between what they profess and how they actually live. We learn more, try harder, serve more, feel guilty when we fail—and then begin the cycle again.
Biblical knowledge matters, but information alone cannot heal the stories, wounds, desires, and habits beneath the surface.
Ministry activity can look like maturity while the deeper interior life remains anxious, exhausted, reactive, or self-reliant.
We often ask external behavior to accomplish the internal transformation that only the Holy Spirit can bring about.
The Christian life does not begin with grace and then graduate into self-reliance. We come by the Spirit, grow by the Spirit, and are completed by the Spirit.
Following Jesus will help you understand the biblical story you are living in, what actually forms a person, how the Holy Spirit changes us, and how to arrange your life around practices that keep you receptive to God.
“The call to abide in Jesus is not primarily to do something, but to be with someone.”
You do not need another complicated spiritual system. You need a clearer story, a trustworthy framework, and a way of life that keeps you receptive to the Spirit.
Recognize the narratives shaping your view of God, salvation, and discipleship—and learn to live inside the larger biblical story of God's kingdom.
Discover abiding as relational dependence and see how the Spirit transforms the heart, heals distorted narratives, and bears fruit from the inside out.
Learn to use spiritual disciplines as means of grace and build rhythms that help you remain present to God and receptive to his work.
Each week builds on the last so that narrative, transformation, abiding, the Holy Spirit, maturity, discipleship, and spiritual practices become one integrated vision of the Christian life.
Compare a forgiveness-only gospel with the fuller biblical kingdom story, then recover discipleship as life with Jesus rather than merely a program, method, or category for especially serious Christians.
Look beneath visible behavior to the narratives, wounds, desires, and habits shaping us—and understand why moral effort alone cannot create deep transformation.
Explore Jesus as the true vine, the order of abiding, and the Spirit's work from beginning to end. Learn why dependence is the source of genuine spiritual power.
Understand the stages of faith, why productivity is not the summit of maturity, what happens at “the wall,” and how surrender and deeper trust help us grow.
Recover discipleship as relationally walking with Jesus, co-laboring with God, participating in community, and joining Jesus as he continues to make disciples.
Understand disciplines as means of grace rather than spiritual achievement, and begin arranging your everyday life around practices that help you remain receptive to God.
Following Jesus combines teaching, visual summaries, readings, and practical integration so you can revisit the ideas and begin putting them into practice.
Core lessons covering narrative, discipleship, spiritual formation, abiding, the Holy Spirit, stages of faith, walking in the way, and spiritual disciplines.
Beautiful printable summaries that condense each lesson into its most important ideas so you can review and remember them.
Selected articles and optional book chapters that deepen the teaching without turning the course into an academic overload.
Resources designed to move the material from ideas toward an intentional way of life with God.
You do not need to be in crisis to take this course. You simply need to want a clearer and more relational vision of what following Jesus can actually look like.
Foundations for a Life of Discipleship
One six-week journey toward a clearer, deeper, more relational vision of the Christian life.
The course is self-paced and organized into six weeks. Optional readings from The Discipline of Grace require purchasing the book separately.
Following Jesus is organized as a six-week journey. We recommend allowing each week enough room for the teaching to settle in rather than rushing through all of the material at once.
Both. Newer Christians can gain a coherent framework for discipleship, while longtime Christians and ministry leaders may discover language for gaps and tensions they have experienced for years.
No. The core course can stand on its own. Optional readings from The Discipline of Grace are included in the course rhythm for those who want to explore certain themes more deeply. The book is purchased separately.
No. Spiritual disciplines come near the end because the course first develops a larger framework for narrative, discipleship, inner formation, abiding, the Spirit's work, and the stages of faith. The practices make more sense once that larger story is in place.
No. One of the course's central ideas is that self-effort cannot produce the kind of inner transformation Christianity promises. The goal is not behavior management, but learning to live in relational dependence on God and cooperate with the work of the Spirit.
After purchasing, you will receive access to the course online through Eden Project. The videos, summaries, readings, and resources are organized week by week in your course library.
Yes. The course is structured as a six-week journey, but you can move through the material at a pace that allows you to thoughtfully engage with the teaching, reflection, and practices.
The goal of the Christian life is not to become impressive, productive, or spiritually self-sufficient. The goal is God himself—to remain at home in the Father's love, fellowship with the Son, and life in the power of the Spirit.
