The Gospel-Centered Life, Study Guide with Leader’s Notes (The Gospel-Centered Life)
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Lots of Christians talk about the gospel, but how many really understand and know how to apply it to their lives? In this life-changing training resource, Authors Robert H. Thune and Will Walker communicate both to the new Christian and the seasoned pastor the need for gospel renewal.
By training people in the implications of the good news, The Gospel-Centered Life, Study Guide with Leader’s Notes helps pastors, leaders, and Christians everywhere who long to see gospel transformation in themselves and in their churches.
This Christ-focused material is simple and easy for leaders to use while also encouraging thoughtful, rich discussion. The Gospel-Centered Life focuses on true heart change rather than behavioral modification, helping readers recognize relationship issues in practical ways.
Featuring nine self-contained lessons with discussion questions, articles, practical exercises, and comprehensive leader’s notes in the back, The Gospel-Centered Life helps participants understand how the gospel shapes every aspect of life. Readers will gain biblical insight on the temptation to pretend and perform, what heart idolatry and repentance looks like, dealing with conflict in relationships, and much more.
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- Communicates the need for gospel renewal to both new Christians and seasoned pastors
- Focuses on true heart change rather than behavioral modification
- Helps participants understand how the gospel shapes every aspect of life
- Introduction
- Gospel Overview
- Lesson 1 –the Gospel Grid
- Lesson 2 –Pretending & Performing
- Lesson 3 –Believing the Gospel
- Lesson 4 –Law & Gospel
- Lesson 5 –Repentance
- Lesson 6 –Heart Idolatry
- Lesson 7 –Mission
- Lesson 8 –Forgiveness
- Lesson 9 –Conflict
- Leader’s Guide
With simple and direct language, The Gospel-Centered Life, Study Guide with Leader’s Notes helps people understand and effectively apply the gospel to their lives, regardless of where they are in their spiritual journey. It’s one of the few resources out there that explicitly challenges others to reach out with the gospel, even as it is growing deeper into their own lives. I highly recommend it!
—Steven L. Childers, DMin, Associate Professor of Practical Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando
I’ve used The Gospel-Centered Life in two different church contexts—one an established church in a Sunday school setting, the other in a smaller, re-start church context in our small groups. The curriculum has a rare combination of being gloriously simple for leaders to use and also having thoughtful and probing content. GCL starts the right conversations, pressing people to push past surface behaviors to the internal world that Jesus so valued. In a culture (and a church) full of people who are skimming through life, GCL presses you to pay attention to the conversations in your head and the motives in your hearts, and to bring all of it under the lordship of Christ and into contact with the power of the gospel. It is easy to use and strikes the rare blend of being applicable and accessible to both the seasoned believer as well as the person considering faith for the first time. We found doing it in all our small groups created a church-wide conversation that had real impact in terms of people’s discipleship and understanding of how great the gospel truly is.
—Alex Kirk, Lead Pastor, Chatham Community Church, Chapel Hill, NC
As we seek to make disciples of Jesus, I am continually looking for resources which rightly emphasize true heart-change over mere behavioral-modification. The Gospel-Centered Life is one of the most effective tools we are using in that regard.
—Brian McCurry, Small Groups Pastor, Fellowship Memphis, Memphis, TN