Companion Planted: Imagining the Depths and Fruits of Discipleship

Those of us who are members of God's family - citizens of his kingdom - long to be formed as a people who bear his name with fidelity. We have Jesus - God in flesh - to train us in that direction.

In Companion Planted, Rick Shafer invites readers to see discipleship first as a belonging that then manifests in our behaviors. Using an image of three trees, planted together, the author envisions growth that's both immersive and gradual, personal and cooperative, demanding and forbearing, intern...