As a staff representative for The Navigators, I have been successfully using Chris Adsit’s Personal Disciplemaking program for the past ten years. I have found it to be very flexible, user-friendly, and a tremendous resource for the person who wants to help believers of all ages. I have used it successfully in countless ‘man-to-man’ appointments as well as a helpful Sunday school program. It is the most breathable and informative tool I have had the privilege of using in 25+ years of disciplemaking.
—Navigator Staff Representative, Pensacola, Florida
As I read Personal Disciplemaking I found myself asking, 'In almost 2000 years, why hasn’t somebody developed this system long before now?' I highly recommend this work.
—Board Chairperson, Cannon Beach Conference Center (Cannon Beach, Oregon)
If you are sick and tired of ‘playing games’ with disciplemaking programs that don’t really meet the needs of your students, take a hard look at this system and understand that it will equip you to evaluate their spiritual maturity, customize a specific program to meet their needs, and challenge them to higher levels of spiritual maturity. Finally we can get serious about disciplemaking!
— College Pastor at Rolling Hills Community Church (Portland, Oregon)
Chris Adsit has produced what I believe to be the best biblically-based, systematic approach to discipleship training and equipping available today. He has a unique understanding of the dynamics and theology of disciplemaking and has managed to communicate that in a program that every pastor and lay-leader in the local church can grasp and apply easily. I have taught and used his materials in my classes on spiritual formation and discipleship with great success. Students find his strategies and materials helpful, easy to use and motivational. I believe his materials should be the core of every local church’s equipping curriculum for discipleship training.
—Associate Professor and Acting Chairman of the Department of Church Ministries and Cross-cultural Studies; Executive Director of the Center for Youth Ministry, Liberty University (Lynchburg, Virginia)
The Personal Disciplemaking Seminar is outstanding not only for the great care with which topics are treated, but especially for its unique ‘need-oriented’ approach to discipleship training. Rather than a purely linear, ‘one size fits all’ approach, Chris uses assessment tools which then allow a person to access the material at their particular point of need or stage of development.
—Senior Pastor, Eugene (Oregon) Faith Center; Divisional Superintendent, International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
I have been a user of the disciplemaking system developed by Chris Adsit for more than ten years. In my opinion, it is the most effective system for challenging people at their point of greatest need. No church that is serious about raising up disciples should be without Chris' materials.
—Pastor of Bonita Valley Baptist Church (Chula Vista, California)
Our leadership here at our church is excited about the method of disciplemaking that we are learning from Chris Adsit. The quality and content are just what we need to move our people forward as authentic disciples for the Lord. I can highly recommend the system and goals of this project if your church is serious about making real disciples who live for Christ.
—Senior Pastor, Calvary Church of Santa Ana (California)
Chris’ driving motive in life is to help others discover the dynamic purpose of investing their lives in others. His humorous style of writing draws you into each page. A very helpful and enjoyable work.
—Christian Business Men’s Committee Ministry Representative, Desert Southwest Region (Phoenix, Arizona)
read Chris’ book Personal Disciplemaking for the first time six years ago at seminary. I immediately realized it was the most comprehensive, practical and Biblical method of disciplemaking that I had ever seen. Since that time I have practiced and preached it to everyone I disciple. I tell people that all they need for a lifetime of ministry is to develop a personal Bible study program, and to practice the system taught in Personal Disciplemaking. I know it provides me with a lifetime of ministry direction.
—Director of ROTC Ministries, The Military Ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ
America houses the largest spiritual nursery we have ever seen in history. We desperately need to move Christians on from infancy into the infantry. Chris Adsit's system of training disciplemakers provides an excellent, objective, transferable means by which this can be accomplished. I enthusiastically recommend it!
—President Emeritus, Western Seminary, Portland, OR
This is the one I recommend—for making disciples, I mean. All the other methods fail to account for what a new recruit already knows. Chris’ approach is thorough, comprehensive and complete, yet refreshingly simple. It’s the most workable method for making disciples I have ever seen.
—author, speaker, founder and director of Yes! Ministries (Santa Barbara, California)
I have used the method of disciplemaking that I’ve learned from Chris Adsit in both university ministry and in the local church. I like it because it is adaptable to the person that I am discipling but also gives me tracks to run on as a pastor. It has helped me keep ‘making disciples’ as my main priority.
—Pastor of Adult Ministries, Liberty Bible Church (Chesterton, Indiana)
This is the most comprehensive, practical approach I've seen to date. If the reader will faithfully apply the principles contained in this book, he or she will become effective at disciplemaking.
—Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Center for Christian Leadership, Dallas Theological Seminary.
