Go from Sunday attendee to Spirit-empowered disciple-maker
A rigorous, Scripture-rooted academy — covering biblical foundations, spiritual formation, evangelism, and Jesus' own I-do/We-do/You-do/You-teach model — designed to move committed believers from passive faith to intentional, multiplying discipleship.

"My one aim in every lesson is to leave you more rooted in Scripture, more responsive to the Spirit, and more ready to reproduce in others what God is working in you."— Tracy Benningfield

What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Open, interpret, and apply Scripture with confidence, anchoring every area of life to the inerrancy and authority of God's Word.
- Cultivate a consistent, Spirit-led devotional life through the classical spiritual disciplines — prayer, fasting, worship, study, and solitude.
- Articulate and defend the core doctrines of the Christian faith and share the gospel clearly in personal and public contexts.
- Identify your spiritual gifts, leadership calling, and ministry role — and deploy them in purposeful service within your local church and community.
- Build and lead intentional disciple-making relationships using Jesus' I-do / We-do / You-do / You-teach model to multiply mature believers.
- Develop a comprehensive biblical worldview that shapes your family, leadership, cultural engagement, and mission — equipping you to fulfill the Great Commission wherever God has placed you.
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The curriculum
What's inside your school
7 modules · 33 lessons

Foundations of the Christian Faith
This foundational school establishes the bedrock of Christian belief for every disciple's journey. Rooted in conservative evangelical theology and the complete authority of Scripture, students will build a theological framework that anchors their identity, doctrine, and mission. This school corresponds to the Foundations level of the discipleship pathway and draws directly from Transformative Discipleship Book 1. Completing this school is a prerequisite for all advanced schools.
- 1.1The Authority and Inerrancy of ScriptureIncluded
- 1.2The Triune God — Father, Son, and Holy SpiritIncluded
- 1.3The Gospel — Sin, Salvation, and the CrossIncluded
- 1.4The Church — Its Nature, Mission, and AuthorityIncluded
- 1.5The Great Commission — Our Mandate and MissionIncluded
Spiritual Formation
This school trains disciples in the classical spiritual disciplines as the God-ordained means of grace through which the Holy Spirit conforms believers to the image of Christ. Drawing from Transformative Discipleship Book 1 and the spiritual formation tradition of evangelical Christianity, students will not merely learn about the disciplines — they will practice them. Transformation, not information, is the measured outcome. This school is designed for the Foundations–Growing Disciple transition and should follow completion of Foundations of the Christian Faith.
- 2.1The Spiritual Disciplines — An Introduction to the Means of GraceIncluded
- 2.2A Life of Prayer — Intimacy, Intercession, and PersistenceIncluded
- 2.3Scripture Intake — Hearing, Reading, Studying, Memorizing, and MeditatingIncluded
- 2.4Fasting, Solitude, and Silence — Disciplines of SubtractionIncluded
- 2.5Worship, Sabbath, and Spiritual RhythmsIncluded
Biblical Studies
This school equips disciples to handle the Word of God accurately and confidently (2 Timothy 2:15), moving from basic literacy to skilled interpretation and application. Students will learn the landscape of the entire Bible, master the tools of inductive Bible study, and develop a robust biblical worldview that shapes every dimension of life. This school serves the Growing Disciple level and is prerequisite to the Advanced Biblical Interpretation elective in the Equipped Disciple pathway. It integrates directly with Transformative Discipleship Book 2.
- 3.1How to Read the Bible — Genre, Context, and StructureIncluded
- 3.2Inductive Bible Study — Observation, Interpretation, and ApplicationIncluded
- 3.3Old Testament Survey — Covenant, Law, Prophecy, and PromiseIncluded
- 3.4New Testament Survey — The Kingdom, the Church, and the LettersIncluded
- 3.5Biblical Worldview — Thinking Christianly About Every Area of LifeIncluded
Evangelism and Apologetics
This school equips every disciple to be a faithful, confident, and courageous witness for Jesus Christ in personal, communal, and digital contexts. Rooted in the conviction that the gospel is the power of God for salvation (Romans 1:16), students will learn to articulate the gospel clearly, share it naturally in relational contexts, defend it intellectually with gentleness and respect (1 Peter 3:15), and leverage digital platforms as modern-day mission fields. This school is positioned at the Growing Disciple–Equipped Disciple transition and integrates Transformative Discipleship Book 2.
- 4.1The Gospel — Clarity, Urgency, and Personal ConvictionIncluded
- 4.2Personal Evangelism — Natural, Relational Gospel WitnessIncluded
- 4.3Apologetics — Defending the Faith with Gentleness and RespectIncluded
- 4.4Evangelism in the Digital Age — Witness Online and in CultureIncluded
Disciple-Making
This is the methodological core of the entire School of Christian Discipleship. Drawing directly from Transformative Discipleship Book 3 and Jesus' own pattern of ministry, students learn the full arc of intentional disciple-making — from understanding the biblical model to selecting, training, releasing, and multiplying disciples. This school is positioned at the Equipped Disciple level and should be completed after Foundations of the Christian Faith, Spiritual Formation, and Biblical Studies. The goal is not merely to understand disciple-making but to begin doing it before the school concludes.
- 5.1Jesus' Discipleship Model — I Do, We Do, You Do, You TeachIncluded
- 5.2Selecting and Beginning a Discipleship RelationshipIncluded
- 5.3The Content of Discipleship — What We Teach and How We Teach ItIncluded
- 5.4Accountability, Spiritual Conversations, and Releasing DisciplesIncluded
- 5.5Building a Disciple-Making Culture in the Local ChurchIncluded
Christian Leadership and Spiritual Gifts
This school develops disciples who lead from the inside out — character before competency, servanthood before authority, calling before career. Drawing on the leadership paradigm of Jesus, Paul, and the New Testament church, students will discover their spiritual gifts, clarify their leadership calling, and build the inner-life disciplines that sustain godly leadership over the long haul. This school is positioned at the Equipped Disciple–Disciple Maker transition and serves those being prepared for ministry leadership roles. It integrates Transformative Discipleship Book 3 and adds a prerequisite theology of vocation and calling.
- 6.1The Theology of Calling — Vocation, Purpose, and God's DesignIncluded
- 6.2The Servant-Leader — Jesus' Model of Christlike AuthorityIncluded
- 6.3Discovering and Deploying Your Spiritual GiftsIncluded
- 6.4Character Before Competency — The Inner Life of a LeaderIncluded
- 6.5Leadership in the Local Church — Elders, Deacons, and Ministry RolesIncluded
Family Discipleship and Missional Living
The final school of the core curriculum brings everything learned to bear on the most immediate and strategic mission fields in every disciple's life: the home and the everyday world. Drawing on Deuteronomy 6, Ephesians 5–6, and the missional theology of the New Testament, students learn to disciple their families with intentionality, live as sent people in their neighborhoods and workplaces, leverage their vocations as Kingdom platforms, and steward technology for the Great Commission. This school is positioned at the Disciple Maker level and serves as the integrative capstone of the entire discipleship pathway.
- 7.1Discipling Your Family — The Home as a School of FaithIncluded
- 7.2Missional Living — Being Sent Into Your Everyday WorldIncluded
- 7.3Vocation as Mission — Glorifying God in Your WorkIncluded
- 7.4Digital Ministry — Stewarding Technology for the Great CommissionIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
New believers
You've placed your faith in Christ and want a solid theological foundation — doctrine, Scripture, and disciplines — before bad habits take root.
Faithful but stuck churchgoers
You've attended for years but feel spiritually plateaued, and you're ready to move from the pew into purposeful, multiplying discipleship.
Parents discipling their homes
You want to lead your family spiritually but lack a framework — this academy gives you the theology, tools, and rhythms to make your home a school of faith.
Lay leaders and small group leaders
You shepherd others week to week and need the biblical depth, disciple-making methodology, and leadership theology to do it with greater confidence and Kingdom impact.
Pastors and ministry directors
You want to build a genuine disciple-making culture in your church and need a reproducible, Scripture-grounded system you can deploy across your congregation.
Marketplace believers on mission
You see your workplace and daily life as a mission field and want a biblical worldview and evangelism framework to witness naturally wherever God has placed you.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Tracy Benningfield
I know where you are, because I have sat with thousands of believers who share the same quiet tension: you love Christ, you attend faithfully, you serve when asked — and yet you carry a persistent sense that there must be more to following Jesus than what your current rhythm produces. You hunger for a faith that is not just intellectually affirmed on Sunday but actively transforming you Monday through Saturday, spilling into your relationships, your home, your workplace, and your community. That hunger is not restlessness — it is the Holy Spirit calling you upward.
What I have seen, again and again, is that the gap between where most believers are and where God intends them to be is not a gap of desire. It is a gap of formation and equipping. Believers want to pray with depth — but no one has ever walked them through the classical disciplines of intercession, fasting, and solitude. They want to open the Bible with confidence — but no one has taught them inductive study, genre awareness, or how the covenants hold the whole story together. They want to share their faith — but no one has given them a framework for natural, relational gospel witness that doesn't feel like a sales script. And they want to make disciples — but they have never been shown the actual methodology Jesus modeled with twelve men who changed the world.
That is precisely what The Discipleship Experience is built to do. Every module in this academy was designed to address a specific formation gap — from doctrinal foundations and spiritual disciplines, to biblical hermeneutics and apologetics, to leadership theology, family discipleship, and the full architecture of the Great Commission. The curriculum does not scatter across topics randomly; it is sequenced so that each layer of growth prepares you for the next. By the time you reach the disciple-making module and begin applying Jesus' I-do/We-do/You-do/You-teach method, you will have the theological clarity, the interior life, and the evangelistic conviction to make that methodology genuinely fruitful — rather than merely mechanical.
Perhaps your concern is time, or whether content this substantial can translate into real life change outside a seminary classroom. I want to address that honestly: this is not a casual survey course, and I will not pretend otherwise. Mature discipleship requires serious engagement with God's Word and honest application of what it demands. But this academy is built for ordinary believers living in ordinary schedules — not for those with library access and Monday mornings free. Every lesson is designed to be engaged at your own pace, with immediate application to your home, church, and daily mission field.
Wherever God has placed you — whether you are a new believer laying your first theological foundations, a parent longing to disciple your own household, a lay leader wanting to build a disciple-making culture in your church, or a pastor seeking fresh biblical grounding for what you already pour into others — this academy was built for you. The Great Commission is not a program for professionals. It is a mandate for every follower of Jesus. I would be honored to walk with you as you answer it.
— Tracy Benningfield
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