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Life with Jesus is a 12-session discipleship course by Tim Chester that shows how the gospel transforms everyday life. Ideal for individuals, small groups, and mentoring, it covers prayer, Bible reading, church, work, money, suffering, mission, and spiritual growth. A practical guide for both new and mature believers.
Most Christians know that following Jesus matters. They know that the gospel changes everything. But in the ordinary, busy, sometimes confusing reality of everyday life — with its pressures of work and money, its struggles with prayer and Bible reading, its questions about suffering and church and what faithfulness really looks like — the gap between what we believe and how we live can feel very wide.
Life with Jesus by Tim Chester is a 12-session discipleship course that bridges that gap. Practically, biblically, and with the warmth and clarity that has made Tim Chester one of the most trusted writers on Christian discipleship today, it takes the great truths of the gospel and shows — concretely and specifically — how they shape every area of Christian life.
This is discipleship as it was always meant to be: not abstract theology, not a list of rules, but the gospel worked out in the actual texture of real Christian living.
One of the most valuable features of Life with Jesus is the breadth of its usefulness. It includes plenty of material to engage mature Christians as well as new believers, with an emphasis on practical, real-life application to help people follow Jesus in every area of their lives. Life Is Story
This is a genuinely rare combination. Most discipleship courses are pitched at one audience or the other — either introductory enough for new believers but thin for mature Christians, or substantive enough for mature Christians but inaccessible for those newer to faith. Life with Jesus manages both because Tim Chester's approach is consistently grounded in the gospel itself — a foundation that is always the starting point for new believers and always the returning point for mature ones.
It is a great introduction or refresher on living the Christian life — a life-giving relationship with Jesus, biblically grounded, clearly explained, and solidly applied to real life. It will help readers to get going or keep going in following Jesus. Life Is Story
The sessions are designed to be used flexibly in different contexts — and this flexibility is one of the course's most practically useful features. Each of the twelve sessions can be completed in around an hour, making them achievable without requiring significant restructuring of existing small group or discipleship meeting schedules. Goodreads
The course works effectively in three distinct contexts:
Small groups — the discussion questions are designed to generate genuine, substantive conversation about the practicalities of following Jesus, and the group format allows participants to encourage and challenge one another in the application of each session's material
One-to-one — the course is equally well-suited to a discipleship pair or mentoring relationship, where the discussion questions can be engaged with more personally and the application can be tailored to the specific situation and needs of the person being discipled
Individual study — the course can also be worked through alone, with the Bible study and reflection questions serving as a structured personal devotional engagement with the material
The course looks at how the gospel and God's grace can shape our attitude towards church, Bible reading, prayer, suffering, how to use our money, and many other aspects of life. Goodreads
The twelve sessions are structured in two parts:
Part One: A New Life
Part Two: A New Way of Living
This structure — moving from the foundations of the new life in Christ to its practical outworking in every sphere of daily living — gives the course a theological coherence and a practical comprehensiveness that make it genuinely useful as a complete discipleship framework.
Each of the twelve sessions follows a consistent structure that makes the course easy to lead and easy to engage with:
This built-in structure means that every session is complete and self-contained — requiring minimal preparation from a leader while still generating rich, substantive engagement from participants.
"This is the discipleship course I've been waiting for!" — Reader, The Good Book Company Life Is Story
"A great introduction or refresher on living the Christian life — a life-giving relationship with Jesus. Biblically grounded, clearly explained and solidly applied to real life." — Graham Beynon, Head of Local Ministries, FIEC, UK Life Is Story
Tim Chester is Lecturer in Historical Theology and Spiritual Formation for Crosslands Training and has written over 40 books. He has a PhD in theology and a PgDip in history, along with 25 years of experience in pastoral ministry. He is a pastor at Grace Church Boroughbridge in North Yorkshire and co-founder of Porterbrook Seminary. He is one of the most prolific and trusted evangelical authors writing today, known for combining careful biblical scholarship with genuine pastoral warmth and a consistent commitment to practical, gospel-centred application. His other contributions to The Good Book Company include Titus For You and Exodus For You in the God's Word For You series, as well as numerous other widely-read books on Christian community, discipleship, and everyday faith.
