In March 1986 a group of eighteen gathered in Flower Mound, TX, committed to a dream of developing a Bible
study for training Christian Disciples. Together they shaped the dream into a vision of what became DISCIPLE:
BECOMING DISCIPLES THROUGH BIBLE STUDY.
In July of 1989, three years after the Flower Mound gathering that gave birth to DISCIPLE, word had come
across the church that lives were being changed and churches renewed. A group gathered once again and took
on the challenge of providing another life-changing study. The result was DISCIPLE: INTO THE WORD INTO THE
WORLD with the challenge of going deeper into the Word and out into the world.
Another three years later in December of 1992 another gathering took place and the new study took shape.
Experience confirmed direction and congregations were ready to confront and be confronted by the hard words
of the prophets. The result - DISCIPLE: REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE, the third study in what would become a
four-phase program.
Finally, in 2001, the fourth and final study of the original DISCIPLE program was published. From Creation
to the New Jerusalem - that was the promise and the vision. DISCIPLE: UNDER THE TREE OF LIFE was published
and groups would study The Writings and Revelation. The journey was long and in-depth and would take
congregations through the Bible twice.
BECOMING DISCIPLES THROUGH BIBLE STUDY provides an overview of the entire Bible. The next three studies
deal with specific books in more detail. DISCIPLE BIBLE STUDIES have been influential in transforming the
lives of 1.5 million people. These studies also have led to the development of CHRISTIAN BELIEVER and
JESUS IN THE GOSPELS.
