Following Jesus has always been an invitation into life with God and life with others. It is exciting and challenging, hope-filled and costly, deeply personal and never meant to be practiced alone.
This summer, the David C Cook team celebrated the launch of makingdisciples.org, a new place to encourage and equip Christians who want to follow Jesus faithfully and help others do the same.
See discipleship not as a program to manage, but as an embodied way of life—one that shapes how we follow Jesus, practice faith, gather in community, and cultivate others who will do the same.
What Is It?
Making disciples is a content and training site for adult discipleship. It brings together the wisdom, experience, and creativity of a diverse collective of writers, pastors, academics, artists, and ministry leaders. Some names may be familiar to you, such as our dear friends Michayla White and Kirsten Hitchcock. Other voices will be new to you.
Who Is It for?
The site features stories full of practical insight, theological reflection, and lived experience to help pastors, small group leaders, ministry volunteers, and everyday disciples grow in their disciple-making journey.
Why Was It Created?
We created makingdisciples.org because the church needs accessible, thoughtful, and practical resources for forming disciples across generations and contexts. We know you want to share your faith and invest in the next generation of Jesus-followers but may not be sure where to begin.
How Does It Work?
The content is organized around four discipleship pillars: Follow, Practice, Gather, and Cultivate.
- Follow explores what it means to be a disciple of Jesus and how we faithfully walk with him in the world today. “Follow” articles (like this) invite readers to consider the shape of faithful obedience, the cost and joy of walking with Christ, and the ways discipleship reorients our identity, desires, relationships, and witness.
- Practice helps readers establish formational rhythms like Bible study, prayer, worship, and Sabbath. “Practice” articles (like this) invite readers to move beyond good intentions into embodied faith.
- Gather reminds us that discipleship grows in community through hospitality, accountability, intergenerational relationships, and love of neighbor. “Gather” articles (like this) encourage readers to see Christian community as a place where people at different stages of faith help one another become more like Christ.
- Cultivate focuses on nurturing disciple-makers who reflect the character and heart of Christ through leadership, encouragement, multiplication, and servanthood. “Cultivate” articles (like this) explore Christlike leadership through connection, multiplication, encouragement, and servanthood.
The church needs accessible, thoughtful, and practical resources for forming disciples across generations and contexts.
We know that discipleship is a broad topic and God calls us to acknowledge Him in all our ways (Proverbs 3:5-6). We have intentionally crafted content that explores becoming faithful followers of Jesus in all areas of life: from how to start a small group, to how to think about AI, you’ll find content that helps you on your discipleship journey.
Our Hope for Making Disciples
Our hope is that makingdisciples.org becomes more than a website. We want it to grow into a trusted place believers return to for fresh encouragement, to ask honest questions, and to engage with practical next steps. At its heart, the site invites you to see discipleship not as a program to manage, but as an embodied way of life—one that shapes how we follow Jesus, practice faith, gather in community, and cultivate others who will do the same.
Join Us
As the site grows, we invite you to be part of the journey. Sign up for the making disciples newsletter to receive new articles and future resources. Plus, you’ll receive a devotional download from Courtney Weaver. Share makingdisciples.org—or a favorite article from the site—on your social media channels, with your church community, or with someone you are discipling. And if you know a pastor, author, artist, scholar, ministry leader, or practitioner whose voice could strengthen this conversation, recommend them as a future contributor.
Following Jesus means making disciples. Let’s keep following, practicing, gathering, and cultivating together.
