Introducing
The Mandate:Discipleship
Book & Training Manual
By Dr. Rick Barker
Are You Ready To Become A Disciple?
There are a lot of people inside and outside the church walls that have repeated the Sinner’s prayer. In fact, there are many who have recited it multiple times! But what then? Are they being equipped to truly follow Jesus? Too many are receiving salvation but left hungering for more. Jesus commanded His followers to make disciples of all nations. It’s a joyous thing when someone accepts Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior, but let’s not leave them saved with no direction.
The Mandate: Discipleship lays the scriptural groundwork for people to live fruitful, effective lives. One of the greatest challenges that the church is facing today is fully meeting the needs of the body. The Mandate will help you equip people for God’s Plan, see that spiritual fruit remain. Here is what this book covers:
- The pursuit of man after the fall
- A practical plan for building a team
- How to create a discipleship culture
Like the early church, these times are filled with uncertainty, and many are asking questions and seeking truth. This book and its companion The Mandate: Discipleship Training Workbook will stir and equip you to make disciples.
About The Mandate: Discipleship
Book
The Mandate: Discipleship lays the scriptural groundwork for not only a growing a fruitful church but for a growing a fruitful Christian life. One of the greatest challenges that the church is facing today is fully meeting the needs of the body. The Mandate, will help you fully implement the Master Plan that God has to see the spiritual fruit remain. Here is what this book covers:
- The pursuit of man after the fall
- A practical plan for building a team
- Creating a discipleship culture
Like the early church, these times are filled with uncertainty, and many are asking questions and seeking truth. This book and its companion The Mandate: Discipleship Training Workbook will stir and equip you to make disciples.
Training Manual
The purpose of The Mandate: Discipleship Training Manual is to equip you to be a master discipleship maker. My heart from the early days of entering the ministry has been to see fruit that remains in the Body of Christ. This training manual is a companion to my book The Mandate: Discipleship. When used together, I believe you will see the results that we all desire to see; growth in the Church and that day when we will all hear “Well done good and faithful servant”. The most effective and biblical way I know to do this is by each of us personally fulfilling the Great Commission in Matthew 28.
The Mandate
Dr. Rick Barker
FOREWORD
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I’ve been preaching this gospel since the 1970s. I have always been concerned about the many people who are born again but never become a true disciple. And we all know that just because one is born again doesn’t mean they’re fixed yet, nor does it mean they have the ability to totally turn their life over to Christ.
I am proud of this book, The Mandate. It is going to help many believers walk more closely with Christ, be overcomers, and live a life free from their shackles and bondages. It is also going to equip leaders in our great Kingdom to help make disciples who are even more committed and live with biblical precision. Every pastor’s dream is to build a great army who will never betray God and stay together until the trumpet sounds.
This book will provide the means by which to do this. There’s information on these pages from Dr. Rick Barker, who is not only a longtime disciple, but also a man who has pastored God’s people.
I love how Rick used the stories of real Bible characters to drive home this point: “This is not a new problem.” The eight points made in Chapter 2, “The Heart of the Father,” are worth purchasing the entire book.
This is one of those books you’ll want to read through more than one time, looking up the verses and letting them settle within your heart. Then, either buy your friends a copy, or pass yours on, so it continues to bring perpetual impartation to the body of Christ.
This book is easy to understand, written by a man who has walked down this path—both on the side of the pastorate and as a disciple. It’s a great study guide and loaded with verses. Job well done, Rick. May the Lord breathe on the sale and distribution of this, and may it be used to build one of the greatest armies Jesus Christ has ever had—those of us who are going to help climax the ages!
Mark T. Barclay
PREACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS