Deepening Your Roots in God's Family: A Course in Personal Discipleship to Strengthen Your Walk with God [Paperback]

The Navigators (Author)

Book Description

Series: The Revised 2:7 Series | Publication Date: December 22, 1999

In this topical Bible study you’ll first learn how to make Christ the Lord of your life. Then you’ll discover how easy it is to branch out by reviewing your spiritual life and sharing it with others.

Great for new Christians and those interested in discipleship, Deepening Your Roots in God's Family goes beyond the usual Bible study into Scripture memory.

• Personal study between meetings
• 11 sessions

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From the Back Cover

“Rooted and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.” Colossians 2:7 When a tree takes root, burrowing deep into the soil, it’s not long before the action is mirrored above ground. New branches shoot out. Green, healthy leaves appear. Even the trunk grows sturdier, more storm-resistant. And so it is with you. The deeper you root your life in Christ, the stronger you’ll become. Each book in the new 2:7 SERIES contains a dual focus-personal growth and sharing your life in Christ. In this study you’ll first learn how to make Christ the Lord of your life. Then you’ll discover how easy it is to branch out by reviewing your spiritual life and sharing it with others. With its biblical and practical approach to discipleship, this workbook will yield long-term, life-changing results, such as: •A closer relationship with God •A desire and method to memorize Scriptures •A cohesive, useful personal testimony • The ability to spend a day in prayer The New 2:7 SERIES Book One: Growing Strong in God’s Family Book Two: Deepening Your Roots in God’s Family Book Three: Bearing Fruit in God’s Family

About the Author

The Navigators is an interdenominational nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people "know Christ and make Him known” as they look to Him and His Word to chart their lives.

Navigators have invested their lives in people for more than seventy-five years coming alongside them life on life to study the Bible develop a deepening prayer life and memorize and apply Scripture The ultimate goal is to equip Christ followers to fulfill 2 Timothy 2:2—to teach what they have learned to others.

Today tens of thousands of people worldwide are coming to know and grow in Jesus Christ through the various ministries of The Navigators. Internationally more than 4 600 Navigator staff of 70 nationalities serve in more than 100 countries.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: NavPress; New Edition edition (December 22, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576831906
• ISBN-13: 978-1576831908
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #665,036 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Discipleship tool, July 19, 2010

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Big Cat (Phoenix AZ) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Deepening Your Roots in God's Family: A Course in Personal Discipleship to Strengthen Your Walk with God (Paperback)

The 2:7 Series is timeless. I was introduced to it as a young Christian over 25 years ago. As an elder of our church responsible for starting a discipleship program, I turned to this book series. Our church is a mainline demonination church but with an evangelical pastor and bent and growing congregation. This series is great for introducing personal habits and spiritual practices, particularly to folks not familiar with some of these tools. It provides a wonderful foundation upon which an entire ministry can be built, and even serves as a way to train, identify, and raise up future leaders.

I try not to embellish too much or get too far ahead or "fill the gaps." The 2:7 series is ingenious in that it takes participants directly into the "doing" - sometimes kicking and screaming (e.g. Scripture memorization), and let's them wrestle with the expectations of being a committed disciple without trying to pander, implore, or plead. What comes out the other side are folks who "get it": Christ-followers who, instead of being fed a fish for a day, have the ability to fish for themselves.

Powerful, powerful, stuff!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Second Step in Discipleship, June 21, 2011

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This review is from: Deepening Your Roots in God's Family: A Course in Personal Discipleship to Strengthen Your Walk with God (Paperback)

This is based on the version of Book 2 that has been published for the last 8-10 years or so. I understand that there is a newer rendition out this year, but have not yet seen it. My wife and I have used this Navigator series for nearly 30 years to help people learn how to follow Christ. The series has been condensed over time from 6 to 3 books, this being the second of the three. I recommend that you start with Book 1, Growing Strong in God's Family. You could go through it by yourself, but a very important part of the series is to have a small (4-10) group to get people sharing with each other what God shows them each week in His word and how He is working in their lives. This is not a bible study per se, although it does require 1 to 2 hours a week to do the bible-oriented homework. It is solid material and helps to solidify the habits that were started in Book 1 such as into God's word and praying daily, fellow-shipping, and putting Christ at the center of your life. Learn all the verses. They will be useful forever.

5.0 out of 5 stars Navigators 2:7: Book 2, August 18, 2011

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Wayne R Pirmann (Auburn Hills, MI, US) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Deepening Your Roots in God's Family: A Course in Personal Discipleship to Strengthen Your Walk With God (The Updated 2:7 Series) (Paperback)

Navigators, outside of the Bible, may have "written the book" on disciplemaking. That is what Navigators are known for. They have many curricula, and I have not been through all of them to say this is in fact the best.

However, you would be hard put to find a better sequence of materials that, at the end of 9 months, have taken a recent convert to Christ into discipleship as well as the 2:7 Series. This is Book II, and it is valuable, but even much more valuable if the person being discipled has completed Book I first. The "system" works: after finishing Book II the discipler and the discipled need to move on to Book III. Great stuff.

If you were discipled 20 years ago, you might want to get all three books and get re-discipled.

It is interesting that, as of August 14, 2011, there were a dozen or so reviews on Book I, three on Book II and, before I put one in, none on Book III.

Tommy Nelson in Denton, Texas, points out that this is a great curriculum to get in the hands of pastors in foreign lands. I took some of these books in Spanish (available at Amazon) to Nicaragua and I ran out of books far before I ran out of commitments.