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Starting or Revitalizing a Disciples Men Group

Apr 9, 2025
Downloadable PDF of helpful suggestions as you work to start or add a spark of energy to a Disciples Men group in your congregation, or as you start a ministry to men in your community. These suggestions will help you avoid burnout and help you form a group that will help the participants grow deeper […]

Starting or Revitalizing a Disciples Men Group

by Alex Ruth

Downloadable PDF of helpful suggestions as you work to start or add a spark of energy to a Disciples Men group in your congregation, or as you start a ministry to men in your community. These suggestions will help you avoid burnout and help you form a group that will help the participants grow deeper in their faith and relationship with God and one another.

The Jesus Way

Jan 1, 2022
The Jesus Way ministry is built on several core beliefs: 1) Each man is uniquely gifted by God; 2) God established relational principles and priorities foundational to the life God wills for each individual; 3) Each man is the center of his own “realm of influence.” Within this realm, he influences the lives of those around him. His influence can build up or tear down those within his realm; 4) As one who has confessed Jesus as Lord and Savior, each man holds citizenship in the realm of God; 5) Jesus shows us the way to live into those relational principles and priorities that build up rather than tear down as citizens in the realm of God.

The Jesus Way

by Brian Frederick-Gray

A New Men’s Ministry for the men in your congregation

Welcome to The Jesus Way!

This ministry is built on several core beliefs.

  1. Each man is uniquely gifted by God.
  2. God established relational principles and priorities foundational to the life God wills for each individual.
  3. Each man is the center of his own “realm of influence.” Within this realm, he influences the lives of those around him. His influence can build up or tear down those within his realm.
  4. As one who has confessed Jesus as Lord and Savior, each man holds citizenship in the realm of God.
  5. Jesus shows us the way to live into those relational principles and priorities that build up rather than tear down as citizens in the realm of God.

This journey will enrich each man’s life and the lives of those around him. Each man will (re)discover God’s unique purpose for his life and what active citizenship in the realm of God can mean for his life.

The Jesus Way – Listening to God

Apr 1, 2021
This third installment of the Jesus Way material is somewhat unique in that it does not require a teacher to impart information to the others in the study. This material assumes that the Spirit of God is among the people of God. Therefore, the answers we seek are already within us. We discover those answers […]

The Jesus Way – Listening to God

by Alex Ruth

This third installment of the Jesus Way material is somewhat unique in that it does not require a teacher to impart information to the others in the study. This material assumes that the Spirit of God is among the people of God. Therefore, the answers we seek are already within us. We discover those answers as we do the things that allow us to connect with the Spirit of God already present.

In this study you will use an ancient form of prayer called Lectio Divina to engage the Spirit of God through repeated readings of scripture, times of silence and dialogue with the other men in the group. This method of connecting with the Spirit of God within us has proven its worth over many centuries of use. Each week the men in the group will unfurl their sails a little more as confidence and trust in the process and the men in the group grow. Each week the Spirit of God will be captured more and more by the ever-billowing sails of the men’s own spirits and God will guide the men in the group to their own self-discoveries as how to fulfill their God-given potential as citizens of the realm of God

The Jesus Way – The Bible

Apr 1, 2020
The Jesus Way study materials are divided into five sections of five sessions each. There are twenty-five sessions in all. The sections are:

The Jesus Way – The Bible

by Alex Ruth

The Jesus Way study materials are divided into five sections of five sessions each. There are twenty-five sessions in all. The sections are:

  • Section 1 – What Is It – The Bible comes with a lot of cultural baggage. In this section we help set aside some of that baggage and focus on the basics of the Bible and its importance to us.
  • Section 2 – 1st Testament – The 1st (Old) Testament is Israel’s faith history, which makes it our faith history. This is the tradition from which Jesus came. He saw himself as the fulfillment of this history, not its replacement. Here, we will spend time gaining a brief historical overview of the 1st Testament and its importance to Christians today.
  • Section 3 – 2nd Testament – The 2nd (New) Testament is the story of Jesus and the early church. Here, we will explore the different kinds of literature that make up the 2nd Testament and each type’s importance to our faith development.
  • Section 4 – A Deeper Dive – Here, we will actually take a deeper dive into one of Paul’s letters, The Letter or the Philippians, as a way of demonstrating how to actually engage the richness of the Bible to deeper and develop our faith.
  • Section 5 – The Psalms – The Psalms is the largest book of the Bible. It’s importance to the faith of Jews and Christians alike is hard to overstate. For centuries the Psalms has been the meditative, go-to resource of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Many use the Psalms as the bedrock texts for daily prayer. Here, we explore the richness, diversity, and power of this treasured book.