Why?
In Cru, one of the most important and impactful things we offer is personal discipleship. We want to help you grow in your faith and learn what it means to walk with Jesus in college, at work, and for a lifetime! Below are some of our best resources to help you on your journey. If you would like to find out more about how you can experience discipleship in your own life through Cru, please talk with a staff member on your campus!
What is discipleship? Click here to learn more.
We as Cru at SIUE have a vision for every student involved in our movements to be both experiencing discipleship and discipling others. As John Piper discusses in the “what is discipleship” link above, this is not limited solely to weekly one on one or group meetings. However, one of our desires is to try to equip all of our students by taking them through the same discipleship curriculum. This allows us to make sure that every student in each of our ministry movements has a knowledge of topics like: assurance of salvation, how to grow in my faith, how to share my faith with others, how to kill sin, and living a Spirit filled life (to name a few). We will take one year to go through these topics. Each week we will alternatively go through either a topic or do evangelism together. We have 4 open weeks built into each semester to talk about things you’d like to discuss.
SIUE Discipleship Guide
Discipleship Part I:
3) 1) The Word / 2) How to study the Bible
4) Prayer
5) Successful Witnessing , How to share the KGP Conversationally
7) Sexual Wholeness / extra resources: https://swtoolkit.org/
8) Giving and Finances: 1) Biblical Principles 2) Seven Practical Steps, 3) Money & Missions
9) Fighting Sin,
10) Community
11) Living a life of Faith: the 10/40 Window, Big Harvest, Few Laborers, Go, Do, Say, Give pledge
12) Discipleship / How and who to invite
Discipleship Part II:
Discipleship Essentials: here
Books on Discipleship:
Discipleship Defined by Eric Russ
Evangelism Resources:
For Believers learning to walk with the Spirit:
Other Resources:
Transferable Concepts: Click here for an 11 part series on the basics of the faith by Bill Bright. Or listen to them on youtube.
Always-disciple-making: A nine week curriculum centered around some of the basics of the faith emphasizing “believing, sharing, and teaching.” Check it out here.
Cru.org: For topically arranged discipleship resources from Cru.org, click here.
Roger Hershey: For discipleship resources from Roger Hershey, click here.