Understanding what it means to be a disciple of Jesus helps people understand who God is and who we were created to be. This is important and imperative information for anyone considering a decision as sweeping as living for Jesus instead of themselves.

No matter how you recently came to follow Jesus, it's amazing that you took that first step! The most important thing now is that you take the next step in growing your heart for God and knowing a faith in Jesus is a growing faith and a working faith; God works in you and through you for His glory. The best time to grow your faith is as it begins to take root!

You've followed Jesus for awhile now; maybe all of your life. Becoming a whole disciple means that you learn and relearn to love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and strength; your heart, head, and hands all equally strong. This requires on-going training and re-evaluation. It also requires you to invest in the discipleship of others regardless of your vocational calling.

You've embraced the position God has put you in to lead discussion or facilitate people coming together to talk about and learn the things of God. Too many times we can struggle to decide, "What do we study or work on next?" Following the balanced process of working on hearts, heads, and hands ensures that the people who place their spiritual care in your hands become whole disciples and helps you to become a more balanced discipler.

Not only covering blind spots or weaknesses in your existing discipleship methods, this process and set of tools allows you to address the universal issue that exists in almost every church at some level to answer and solve the question, "Why don't we have more qualified and healthy leaders in our church?" This process can even allow you to no longer look to other churches to raise up your leaders but provide healthy apprenticeship and succession within your church.