Live! Experience Christ’s Life is an excellent resource for someone who wants to know God and experience His life. A person can find Christ and grow in Him by studying this book. The first chapter, Finding God, explains how to have a personal relationship with Jesus. The following chapters equip the believer to live an exciting Christian life. This book clearly explains how to pray, read the Bible, receive spiritual freedom, and administrate God’s resources. It’s a great book to use individually, in a small group, or in a classroom teaching setting. In the back section, there’s a coach’s guide to help someone else through the contents of this book.TABLE OF CONTENTS:Lesson 1: Finding GodLesson 2: Establishing a Strong FoundationLesson 3: Getting to Know GodLesson 4: Life with Other Jesus FollowersLesson 5: Living in VictoryLesson 6: Triumphing Over the Forces of EvilLesson 7: My Life and My WalletLesson 8: Baptism and the Lord’s SupperAppendix: How to Coach Someone using this MaterialIndex

Live: Experience Christ's Life

Religion & Spirituality

Comiskey, Joel

Christian Books & Bibles

CCS Publishing

Christ’s death on the cross offers victory over bitterness, addictions, occult bondage, and debilitating strongholds. Encounter! Receive Christ’s Freedom will show you how to apply Christ’s victory to your own life. This book is an excellent resource for someone who is bound by sinful habits or who simply needs to live an abundant life. It explains clearly how to receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit and then to walk in the Spirit’s power. It’s a great resource to use individually or in a retreat setting.TABLE OF CONTENTS:Lesson 1: Encountering GodLesson 2: Receiving God’s ForgivenessLesson 3: Forgiving OthersLesson 4: The Power of the Cross Over Sin and SatanLesson 5: The Power of the Cross to Heal Emotional WoundsLesson 6: The Power of the Cross Over StrongholdsLesson 7: The Power of the Cross Over Sickness and DeathLesson 8: Living in VictoryAppendix One: How to Coach Someone using this MaterialAppendix Two: Instructions on Leading an Encounter RetreatAppendix Three: Spiritual InventoryIndex

Encounter: Receive Christ's Freedom

Jesus Christ wants every Christian to grow in a deeper relationship with Himself. Yet so many people stagnate in the Christian life. Grow! explains how to have a daily quiet time in order to know Christ intimately and grow to maturity. This book offers plenty of practical help for turning the “chore” of devotions into a life-changing, joy-producing habit. Grow! outlines clearly how to seek God in the quiet time and explains the amazing benefits of experiencing God on a daily basis. With this helpful and enthusiastic book, a person can have a quiet time that is much more than opening a Bible and saying prayers. It will be a time of experiencing the living God—a time of communion with the King. This book can be used both in a Sunday School classroom and/or one-on-one.TABLE OF CONTENTSLesson 1: Connecting with GodLesson 2: Preparing to Meet GodLesson 3: Making Contact with GodLesson 4: Receiving from GodLesson 5: Entering God’s PresenceLesson 6: Praying to GodLesson 7: Growing in Spiritual PowerLesson 8: Resting and ReflectingAppendix: How to Coach Someone using this MaterialIndex

Grow: Deepen Your Relationship with Christ

Jesus Christ wants every Christian to grow in a deeper relationship with Himself. Yet so many people stagnate in the Christian life. Grow! explains how to have a daily quiet time in order to know Chr

Share: Make Christ Real to Others

Small groups are leader breeders. Jesus formed his twelve disciples in a small group atmosphere. The best way to become a disciple of Jesus Christ, in fact, is to disciple others. Lead! explains how to facilitate a small group and to grow in the process. This book highlights key small group dynamics that will give the leader confidence in facilitating others. People are longing for community and this book reveals how to find it in the small group atmosphere. Lead! shows a potential leader how to develop new leaders to continue the process of discipleship. It’s excellent to use both in a Sunday School setting or one-on-one. This book forms part of a five-part series to help a person become a fully-devoted follower of Jesus Christ. TABLE OF CONTENTSLesson 1: Understanding the CellLesson 2: Facilitating the GroupLesson 3: Ministering to PeopleLesson 4: Creating a Spiritual AtmosphereLesson 5: Multiplying CellsLesson 6: Working DiligentlyLesson 7: Working SmartLesson 8: Making Disciple-makersAppendix: How to Coach Someone using this Material Index

Lead: Guide a Small Group to Experience Christ

Everyone has at least one spiritual gift, according the Bible. But many don’t know what that gift is or how to use it. This book provides clear steps and guidelines to find and activate spiritual gifts. The eight lessons offer biblical insight on what the gifts are and practical suggestions on how to use them. This book will especially help those leading a small group to know how to discern the different gifts among group members—and then to help each person activate that gift. The only way to discover spiritual gifts is in the context of relationships. Spiritual gift tests, while helping believers to think through the possibilities, are insufficient in themselves. The atmosphere of trust in a small group is the key cornerstone that allows the free flow of the spiritual gifts. When trust is established, people are more willing to risk and try out new, potential gifts. A small group can provide honest feedback about the person’s success, as well as areas of improvement. This book prepares each small group member to understand what his or her spiritual gift is and then instructs the person how to use that gift. Discover is a great resource to use individually, in a small group, or in a classroom teaching setting.

Discover: Use Your Gifts and Help Others Find Theirs (Advanced Training)

Joel Comiskey

This book clearly explains how to plant churches that are simple enough to keep on reproducing and even grow into a movement of churches. Planting Churches that Reproduce is the fruit of Comiskey’s extensive research and personal experience (three church plants in a wide variety of settings). Comiskey not only uses the latest North American church planting statistics but also extends the illustrations to include worldwide church planting. More than anything else, this book will provide practical solutions for those planting churches today. Comiskey’s book is a must-read for all those interested in starting Christ-honoring, multiplying churches.Read table of contents, intro., first chapter, press release, etc. right here:http://joelcomiskeygroup.com/plant.htmlYou can also call: 1-888-511-9995 (Joel Comiskey Group)Recommendations:“Where has this book been? How different might the church be today if Comiskey's invaluable resource had been available even ten years ago? The book we've needed and been waiting for is here now.” LEONARD SWEET Drew University, George Fox Evangelical Seminary“This is an important book not only because it involves a return to a more genuinely biblical ecclesiology, but also because it envisions the much more dynamic form of church that will advance the cause of Jesus in the 21st Century.” ALAN HIRSCH Author of The Forgotten Ways, co-founder of shapevine.com“I don’t think I’ve read anything as clear and as concise as this, or as practical.” BOB ROBERTS Pastor of NorthWood, author of Transformation, The Multiplying Church“If you’re a church planter or part of a church plant that is passionate about reaching the Next Generation, then this book is a must read!” AUBREY MALPHURS Lead Vision Navigator with the Malphurs Group“Joel’s insights will encourage those engaged in church planting to rapidly expand through cell or house church networks.” ED STETZER Author of Lost and Found, Planting Missional Churches

Planting Churches That Reproduce: Starting a Network of Simple Churches

Jesus lived with His disciples for three years and taught them life lessons in a relational atmosphere. After three years, He commanded them to “go and do likewise” (Matthew 28:18-20). Our God, the Trinity, is a relational God. He lives in perfect harmony with the other members of the Godhead. His Word is full of exhortations to love and serve one another. This book will show you how. The isolationism present in the western world is creating a hunger for community, and the world is longing to see relational disciples in action. This book will encourage Christ-followers to allow God to use family, friends, cells, and mission communities to mold and shape them into relational disciples.Read table of contents, intro, first chapter, second chapter, and press release here:http://www.joelcomiskeygroup.com/relational.htmlYou can also call 1-888-511-9995 (Joel Comiskey Group).Here's what others are saying:“Joel Comiskey has shown us how to become relational disciples. I enthusiastically recommend this book.” Randy Frazee Senior Minister of Oak Hills Church, author of best-selling books on community“This book underscores the radical truth that Christian formation happens primarily in the context of relational community. This book will challenge western individualism.” Dr. Julie Gorman Professor of Christian Formation and Discipleship, Fuller Theological Seminary“Dr. Comiskey’s writing style is fresh, illustrations joyful, and arguments powerful. I want to recommend this book to every church leader.” Carl George Consultant and author of “Nine Keys to Effective Small Group Leadership”“This is a crucial book. Joel Comiskey integrates good biblical theology and Christ-centered practice with sensitivity to historical theology and western cultural resistance.” Rev. Dr. Gareth Icenogle Senior Pastor, Westside Presbyterian Church, Ridgewood, New Jersey “The Relational Disciple is a significant book for today. This book will inspire us to be a part of community and to be changed in the process.” Laurence Singlehurst Director of Cell UK, worldwide speaker, author of several booksTABLE OF CONTENTSIntroductionSection I: Seeing Discipleship from a Different PerspectiveChapter 1: Conformed to the Pattern of IndividualismChapter 2: Transformed by the TrinityChapter 3: Transformed by One AnotherChapter 4: Transformed by ConflictSection II: Practicing Relational DiscipleshipChapter 5: Practicing Relational Discipleship with the Inner CircleChapter 6: Practicing Relational Discipleship in an Organic CircleChapter 7: Practicing Relational Discipleship in a Mission CircleAppendix 1: Training for Relational DisciplesAppendix 2: Resources by Joel ComiskeyIndexEndnotes

The Relational Disciple: How God uses Community to Shape Followers of Jesus

Small group resources tend to overlook the spiritual side of small group leadership. And yet most would agree that spiritual preparation is the most important aspect of leading a small group. Only God's supernatural power can draw people to the truth and liberate them to be all that God wants them to be. The first key distinction of this book is the spiritual perspective it gives to small group ministry. This book is a practical reference guide to help small group leadership trust the Holy Spirit to guide and direct their small group ministry. The second major goal of this book is to help small group leaders and members discover and use their spiritual gifts. The book examines each of the twenty-one spiritual gifts listed in the New Testament and offers practical insights on how to use each gift in the context of the small group.

The Spirit-filled Small Group: Leading Your Group to Experience the Spiritual Gifts

Why cell church? Is it because David Cho's church is a cell church and happens to be the largest church in the history of Christianity? Is it because cell church is the strategy that many "great" churches are using? Ralph Neighbour repeatedly says, “Theology must breed methodology.”Joel Comiskey has arrived at the same conclusion. Biblical truth is the only firm foundation for anything we do. Without a biblical base, we don’t have a strong under-pinning upon which we can hang our ministry and philosophy. We can plod through most anything when we know that God is stirring us to behave biblically. In the first section of this book, Comiskey establishes why the Bible is the only true foundation for small group ministry. He then looks at how the Trinity is our example for community. He covers the family in the Old Testament and how the most prominent image of the church is God's family. He then explore how Jesus called out a new family and utilized houses to establish this new family. In section two, Comiskey explains why and how the early church met in homes and gathered those house churches together to celebrate. He discusses relational evangelism, and how leaders developed naturally through the house church strategy. In the third section, the author applies the theology of the first two sections to the church today, attempting to give practical examples about how the New Testament Church can inform and instruct the 21st Century Church today. “Joel Comiskey effectively draws upon the skills of a careful interpreter, the heart of a pastor, and a background in cross-cultural missions to craft this thoughtful and informative treatment of cell-group ministry. An attentive reading of Biblical Foundations for the Cell-Based Church will challenge—in the most positive sense of the word—traditional church models and approaches to ministry driven by consumer-oriented pragmatism. I warmly commend Joel’s book to pastors and others who long to enjoy the kind of relationships experienced by the early Christians, and who wish to base their understanding of community on the theological bedrock of biblical truth.” (Joe Hellerman, Ph.D., Professor of NT Language and Literature, Talbot School of Theology, Team Pastor at Oceanside Christian Fellowship)“Just when it seems that everything has been written that could be said about the church, its nature and its expansion, when all the cliched formulas have been reshuffled ad infinitum, all the accusations dispensed and the mea culpas chanted, suddenly appears a book that can be ignored only to the Kingdom's detriment. This passionate appeal for the rediscovery of the dynamic of the early church that conquered the pagan world within a couple of centuries begins with an unimpeachable Trinitarian theological grounding for the definition of the church. It continues with a careful consideration of the historical and cultural factors that contributed to the shaping of its life and worship, and it culminates with pertinent advice for the transposition of the author's findings to the contemporary church scene. Required reading for pastors and other leaders of static, moribund and/or dysfunctional congregations.”(Gilbert Bilezikian, Professor emeritus, Wheaton College, Willow Creek Community Church)

Biblical Foundations for the Cell-Based Church: New Testament Insights for the 21st Century Church

Comiskey, Dr. Joel

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