Discipleship

After Emily Hanover's left standing at the altar in Blue Mountain, North Carolina, she goes to Sky High Campground to put her life back together. Because it's February and few people come here this time of year, she's alone on the premises. When noises in the middle of the night frighten her, she gathers her courage and peeks outside. A man carrying a body over his shoulder emerges from the dark shadows onto her front yard. Horrified, she collapses onto the floor.The next morning, she visits ex-military officer turned security guard, Nick Lancaster. He listens intently to Emily, but dismisses her claim of foul play as a hunter carrying a deer. Finally, after he sees a freshly dug hole in Emily's yard and finds two more in the woods, he agrees-there's suspicious activity. Then he and Emily embark on a mission exposing murder and a far-reaching sinister plot, neither suspecting danger can bring romance.

The word Disciple in Greek is transliterated mathetes (literally, the learning one) and is derived from the verb manthano which means "to learn". It means "one who learns instruction from another‟, or a disciple is likened to an apprentice who learns from his master tradesman. Thus, a disciple is a person that not only gains knowledge from the teacher but also acts upon it. A disciple therefore follows and a disciple learns from the Teacher. The disciple never replaces the one true Teacher, or takes the role of the teacher. Jesus remains our Teacher and our Lord. This study series into discipleship explores what it really means to be a disciple, within the context of the Great Commission of Matthew 28.

Four people face a winter storm in the wilderness. Two have lost their way. One has lost his purpose and one has lost his soul.Headed home for Christmas vacation, Ruthie, a quiet professor, crosses paths with Moose, a football coach, on an icy, blocked road in Western North Carolina. Amid a winter storm, they unknowingly take shelter in a killer's hideout.Escaping under fire, they flee into a frozen, snow-covered forest. Trying to find their way out and shake the murderer, they dodge bullets each day until the temperature drops and the world turns quiet. Then, they set up camps to survive in the wilderness. Even though they grow attracted to each other, neither admits it until each of them suffers a frightening injury. Finally, they head to a house Ruthie sees in the distance.Will they meet a new friend, or a foe?

The Discipleship book series trilogy is packed full of Biblical inspiration, life-changing insights and practical instruction – to enable us to love God more wholeheartedly, to serve Him more effectively, to obey Him more consistently, to worship Him more faithfully.Putting Feet to Your Faith, the Discipleship Handbook and Practical Discipleship deal with the most important issues possible. There is nothing more important than God and our relationship to Him. This is what really, ultimately matters – that we know God and that we make Him known.The author, Missionary, Dr. Peter Hammond draws from over three decades of dramatic and varied experiences, Evangelising in conflict situations throughout Africa and Eastern Europe. From the Revivals in Romania and KwaZulu, to the Killing fields of Mozambique, to the war in Angola, to Bible smuggling behind the communist Iron Curtain and ministry behind the lines of the war in Sudan, in the 10/40 Window, across the Nuba Mountains, an island of Christianity in the sea of Islam, come the insights in these life transforming books with vibrant and compelling challenges.You will be rebuked and encouraged, burdened and blessed, as these books help you to apply the Lordship of Christ to all areas of life. Your life will be transformed as you launch out in the exhilarating adventure of Discipleship – Putting Feet to your Faith! Dr. Peter Hammondpeter@frontline.org.zaP. O. Box 74 Newlands 7725 Cape Town South AfricaTel: 021-689-4480Academic:Baptist Theological College, Cape Town - Christian Missions Diploma (Cum Laude), 27 November 1984 (Baptist Theological College is now: Baptist Theological Seminary)Whitefield Theological Seminary, Lakeland, Florida, USA, Graduate School of Theology - Doctorate of Missiology in the Field of Applied Missions, 16 October 1998Antioch Bible College Institute and Seminary, Cartersville, Georgia, USA – Doctorate of Divinity, 22 May 2004Accomplishments:Founder and Director of Frontline Fellowship since 1982Founder and Director of Africa Christian Action since 1991Founder and Convenor of the Biblical Worldview Summit since 1991Founder and Chairman of Christian Liberty Books since 1995Founder and Convenor of Great Commission Camps and Courses since 1998Founder of Literature4Africa in 2003Founder and Chairman of The Reformation Society since 2005Founder and Chairman of Livingstone Fellowship since 2006Founder and Principal of William Carey Bible Institute since 2007Founder and Principal of the Henry Morton Stanley School of Christian Journalism since 2018.Author of:Answering Skeptics (also translated into Afrikaans)Frontline: Behind Enemy Lines for ChristBiblical Principles For Africa (also translated into Afrikaans and French)Biblical Worldview ManualChaplains HandbookCharacter Assassins - Dealing with Ecclesiastical Tyrants and TerroristsChristian History of Africa ManualChurch History ManualThe Discipleship HandbookDiscipleship Training ManualFaith Under Fire In Sudan (first published in 1996, expanded edition 1998 and third edition 2010)Holocaust In Rwanda (also translated in to French)In the Killing Fields of MozambiqueMake a Difference - A Christian Action Handbook For Southern Africa (co-authored with Miriam Cain and Philip Stott)New Testament Survey - Exploring the Central Messages of Every Book of the BibleOld Testament Survey – Exploring the Central Messages of Every Book of the BiblePower of Prayer HandbookPractical Discipleship (also translated into Afrikaans)Putting Feet To Your FaithReforming Our Families (co-authored with wife, Lenora Hammond)Security and Survival HandbookSketches from South African Histo...

This volume of work may seem to some as being critical in assessment, others may even view it as judgmental, but the truth remains the truth no matter how we spin it. The truth is that there is a deep flaw in our church system or structure, and this flaw simply cannot be overlooked, dismissed or ignored. It is a discipleship flaw. It is so deeply ingrained in the traditions of the church that over time this flaw has faded in the eyes of leadership and congregants. Unfortunately, this is not a flaw that can dismissed, for this flaw impacts the integrity, function and heart of the church. What is the flaw? For 2000 years or so, the church has created an environment that has not been conducive or healthy for discipleship growth. The structure and the institutionalised nature of the church have created a hostile environment which has quenched the fire of discipleship. What is sad is how we have dismissed or ignored this critical flaw. Matthew 28 is not just about telling the world of Jesus, but being a disciple and making disciples. We can be doing so much good stuff in churches, including trying to preach sound doctrine, yet if we continue running a church based on a flawed model then the church remains flawed. We need to urgently and with zeal address the flaw in discipleship, for the flaw has affected the foundation which impacts the structural integrity of the entire house. God is producing a Bride without spot or wrinkle. He is busy refining and purifying. In the end-time revival, God will address this flaw. In the end-time revival, God is coming to wake up His people, so that we walk again by His Spirit, Glory and in His holy Shekinah fire. As God poured out fire at Pentecost, the Lord comes again the fire of His Spirit to purify and refine His Bride. And in the purification, we shall again walk in His will, order and truth. Discipleship shall be restored, for God's believers will be activated and mobilised to bring in the end-time harvest as the end-time remnant!