Testimonials
I have been in church most of my life but still did not have a real relationship with Christ. God to me was a wrathful God that I was scared of and looked for reasons to punish me for not being good enough. Over the past 9 months in the Journey with Jim Constable, God…
In the past two years I have discipled 14 guys through the at least the first bookmark. Of those 14 at least 6 have started meeting with other men and have seen the power of consistent contextualized reading. In the individual lives of those that have persisted in reading has been remarkable. Depth of passion…
One day at work, a coworker asked me if I had ever been “discipled.” Having grown up in a Christian household, and working at a Christian university, I was quite familiar with the term. After placing my faith in Jesus when I was 21 years old, I was on the “accelerated course” with my beliefs as I already had…
I was 8 years old when the Holy Spirit drew me to Christ, and I was made a new creation in Christ Jesus. For the next 40 years I followed Christ at varying distances, but always wanting to know him more and praying that he would draw me closer. At the same time, I also saw myself…
I was saved at a young age, raised by godly parents, and was pastoring a local church when I was asked, “Have you ever been discipled?” That question changed my life. I began the Journey with a friend; we met weekly, and shared with each other. The Journey plunged me into God’s Word in a different way than I…
Reflections – What a difference one invitation makes. Sometime during the Spring of 2010, I began a regular weekly meeting with a group of local pastors, 6 in total. The group formed after an experience with a friend who had gathered pastors together in a reading group project for required course work on a Doctor…
I was saved at the age of 51. I was a Catholic till then and had no idea what the Bible or Jesus was all about. All my life I chased everything material or unimportant until one day I decided to chase our Lord. Since then I have been on a most wonderful journey, and…
I was saved a bit older in life, even though I grew up in a good family that attended church regularly, I did not have a relationship with Jesus. I knew a lot of the Bible stories, but I had never really learned God’s word, nor did I know what He wanted for my life.…
I’ve been “in” church my whole life. Sometimes I went more times than others. I had been out of church for a while and God started surrounding me with good Christian influences. God sent a disciple my way and for a couple of years, I reluctantly grew. He urged me to start the Journey with…
Journey Toward Disipleship. I pastor a church in a small town in south Georgia. In my five years as pastor I have taken all the “church growth” wisdom I had acquired from seminary, reading, conferences and podcasts and seen it amount to total frustration in my current setting. I began to think that the setting…
Growing up in a strict Christian household and going through every ritual known to man, I found myself starving spiritually. I did everything I thought was “right” in the eyes of man. The “sinners prayer”, baptism, communion, all to which had zero effect on my worldly behavior and my severely lost soul. After attending several…
When asked if I wanted to do The Journey my first thought was NO WAY. I was scared. Scared of the all the reading, the time commitment, opening myself up completely to other people (besides my husband and Jesus) and letting down the other people in the group. But I knew that I was supposed…
I started the Journey in October 2016. The purpose was to hear the Lord speak. The Lord had spoken to me before but it was not something that happened often. One thing that I’ve always wanted is to be like the prophets, Moses, and the apostles in the Bible because they clearly spoke with the Lord, He heard them, and He responded. The goal of…
I was saved at eight years old. I grew up in the church and had many godly influences around me. However, in my teenage years, I drew back from my Lord and walked in darkness. I soon felt my Lord call me back and I surrendered to following Him. Shortly after, my brother asked me,…
Luke introduced me to the Journey in 2011. It has forever changed the way that I look at discipleship with another person. When reading the same passage on most weeks it is amazing how the Holy Spirit continues to reveal different portions of the passage to me. When Luke and I met once a week he showed me how to lean in and listen to the Spirit’s prompting as we sharpened each other.