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Belonging: 5 Keys to Unlock Your Potential as a Disciple
Ministry leaders and other Christians find a deeply personal pathway to discern what discipleship means for them in Belonging by Karoline Lewis.
What does it look like for you to belong to Jesus Christ? Not your colleague, or your professor, or your neighbor, or the leaders of your denomination, but you? How might your one-and-only life be patterned differently, to more truly align you with Christ? What pretense might you give up? What potential might open up for you as a leader and disciple?
keys to Unlock Your Potential as a Disciple helps readers to understand and live out Christian discipleship in a way that is most deeply authentic for themselves. It’s for the leader who is exhausted from trying to live by other people’s templates, who wants to figure out what it looks like to live & lead as only they can. It’s for the student or layperson desiring to follow Christ with integrity, to be themselves fully as a disciple.
This book is scholarly but accessible for pastors, students, ministry leaders, and laypersons. Karoline Lewis structures it around the story of the Samaritan woman and guides the reader to discover deep connection with biblical characters who lead to self-discovery. Questions for reflection throughout the book evoke deep insights about self, theology, and discipleship.
Belonging is excellent for clergy development and ministry leader development in any setting and can be read and studied alone or in groups. Pastors and other congregational leaders can work their way through the book together, in order to lead the church with greater integrity.
What does it look like for you to belong to Jesus Christ? Not your colleague, or your professor, or your neighbor, or the leaders of your denomination, but you? How might your one-and-only life be patterned differently, to more truly align you with Christ? What pretense might you give up? What potential might open up for you as a leader and disciple?
keys to Unlock Your Potential as a Disciple helps readers to understand and live out Christian discipleship in a way that is most deeply authentic for themselves. It’s for the leader who is exhausted from trying to live by other people’s templates, who wants to figure out what it looks like to live & lead as only they can. It’s for the student or layperson desiring to follow Christ with integrity, to be themselves fully as a disciple.
This book is scholarly but accessible for pastors, students, ministry leaders, and laypersons. Karoline Lewis structures it around the story of the Samaritan woman and guides the reader to discover deep connection with biblical characters who lead to self-discovery. Questions for reflection throughout the book evoke deep insights about self, theology, and discipleship.
Belonging is excellent for clergy development and ministry leader development in any setting and can be read and studied alone or in groups. Pastors and other congregational leaders can work their way through the book together, in order to lead the church with greater integrity.
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116 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 17, 2023
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March 12, 2023
Absolutely stellar. Not only is this the best treatise I’ve seen on the story of the Samaritan woman at the well, but Karoline Lewis provides what may be the best understanding of John’s gospel I’ve ever read. It definitely has changed how I preach this text, and I would love to use this book and it’s excellent reflection questions with a small group
October 16, 2023
Read for a Wednesday night Bible study at church. I co-lead the classes so I probably spent too much time prepping for the class and not really reflecting on the book's message and its intersection with my life. Lewis's writing style is easy to read and she provides interesting insight into the woman at the well Bible story in John.
March 8, 2023
An excellent book on the woman at the well. Karoline Lewis addresses five moments and shows us how an unnamed woman from an ostracized people can be a key to discipleship of an entire town. I enjoy Karoline's writings and her participation in the Working Preacher podcast.
June 28, 2023
Another 5 stars and full of highlights
Highly recommend as a gift to those you love in your congregation or small group!
Highly recommend as a gift to those you love in your congregation or small group!
July 11, 2024
A really insightful explication and application of the story of the woman at the well from John 4. Recommend for individual or group Bible study.
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