Eight books, completely free - download, print, and share. Begin with The Once and Future Church to be taken back to the days of Jesus for how it is we started with Jesus' conversational "church" in Israel but abandoned it for the lecture model soon after we arrived in Europe. Read Gravitas: Reimagining the Sunday Lecture Model - Restoring Jesus' Conversational Model for the 55-page definitive background of why and how Jesus' Conversational Model works better, including 15 pages of downloadable Appendix and Addendum. Utilize Life, Love, and Leading for the comprehensive step-by-step journey from individual Life Transformation to Community Transformation. Three additional books support the story for the application of how to stop closing 16 churches every day here in the USA.
On the Sabbath in Galilee, anyone could raise a hand, and Jesus made talmidim through conversation, not lecture. This book traces how the church lost that model in Europe's lecture halls and why we are now closing 16 churches a day. It also shows how any congregation can recover it: conversational Sundays, leaders who each walk with twelve or so, and talmidim who go.
The 54-page gateway to everything One Kingdom Worldwide teaches. Gravitas is the essential first read — it establishes the problem (the Sunday lecture model’s failure to produce talmidim) and points toward the solution (Jesus’ conversational, relational talmidic approach). Read this first, and you will likely want to continue with Life, Love, and Leading.
Life helps us think about our conversations together with hearts after the Father, the mind and attitudes of Christ, language and actions that produce fruit of the Spirit, and love that proves we care and are his. It is the foundation for all relational talmidic discipleship — whether one-on-one or in a small group setting.
Love supports the individual prayer time needed in allowing God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to accomplish His sanctification in our lives. It is the personal, interior companion to the relational work of Life — the quiet time that makes the community transformation of Leading possible.
Leading helps us build upon Life and Love collectively — for community transformation. Scattered like salt across our communities and found, as Jesus was, in service to one another, each individual grain reflecting the light of God’s love - more and more people will be led into lifesaving relationship, and our communities will be restored.
Every community has more willing people than it realizes. They just can't find where they are needed. This field guide walks you step by step through starting a free Community Service and Support Network. It connects your town's non-profits with neighbors who share their passion, from the first phone call to a full team of twelve Co-Leaders.
The four books are not a curriculum to finish. They are a way of living that compounds. Gravitas names what went wrong. Life rebuilds how we talk to one another. Love does the quiet interior work only God can do. Leading takes all of it and builds something a community can stand on.
What comes out the other side isn't a better Sunday service. It's believers scattered like salt across a city, found in service to one another, each grain reflecting the light of God's love. More people led into lifesaving relationship. Communities restored, one conversation at a time.
Within three years, Jesus' talmidim were ready to be sent. Today we hold people in for decades. This short book asks churches to stop building sheep holding pens and to open the gates. It shows how to walk with people life-on-life and teach them to pray the prayers that help us be led, until they follow the Shepherd out wherever he leads.