This complete collection of all 19 Tools for Mentoring Bible study modules include the most important topics you, and those you disciple, need to work through to run life’s race unencumbered. The resource is splintered into sections of ready-to-use Bible studies and practical applications that can be done in almost any order. The detailed table of contents links you to what you and your friend or small group want to study right now. Need a verse? A Scripture list is at the end of each module. Tools for Mentoring gives flexible direction for one-on-one discipleship, small groups, accountability friendships, and self-study. The “How to Use” section shows you how!
Evangelism includes how to communicate the gospel message clearly, tell your story, bridge a conversation to spiritual matters, and more.
Water Baptism includes the spiritual reality baptism illustrates, preparation for baptism, and more.
Baptism with the Holy Spirit includes a short study of the Trinity, what the baptism with the Holy Spirit is and how to experience it, answers to common questions, how to access the nine supernatural gifts, and more.
Overcoming Sin includes the steps to overcoming sin and old habits, what the journey of change looks like, how to escape temptation, and more.
The Bible includes the reliability of the Bible, how to meet with God regularly, how to study, memorize, and meditate on the Bible, questions for building a Bible discussion, how to interpret types of Bible literature, and more.
Prayer includes how to hear God speaking to you, ways to pray, the significance of your prayers, fasting, praying together, and more.
Repentance and Making a Moral Inventory includes how repentance is God’s invitation to freedom, plus a past-resolving inventory that can be revisited to keep your motives pure and relationships healthy.
Forgiving includes reasons to forgive, what the process looks like, how to treat the offender, and more.
The Yielded Life includes the paradoxical freedom of the surrendered life, and what it looks like to deny the self-serving use of position, approval, finances, time, and more.
Sex and Dating includes God’s intention for sex, how to maintain healthy boundaries, what to look for in a dating relationship, how to break up, pornography, homosexuality, forgiveness and healing, and more.
Time Management includes discovering and implementing life priorities, plus useful ways to get things done with less stress.
Financial Management includes how to manage God’s resources wisely and benevolently within a self-serving culture: planning, saving, managing prosperity, giving, while overcoming debt and subtle forms of greed.
Guidance includes biblical principles to evaluate your choices and discover God’s direction. It describes and gives ways to test guidance from the Holy Spirit’s inner voice, the Bible, dreams, circumstances, and so on.
Talking Christianly includes how to have a great conversation, speak in life-giving ways, sidestep gossip, give and receive feedback, resolve conflicts, and more.
Work Ethic includes how to find significance in your work, cultivate biblical work attitudes and habits, take a restorative Sabbath, and more.
Worship includes how to cultivate a God-focused posture for worship, plus thematic groups of psalms for personal or group worship.
Suffering includes how to respond to persecution, overcome temptations such as complaining or self-pity, process questions such as Is God good?, Why is there suffering?, and more.