This series has been adapted from Jonathan Dodson's forthcoming booklet Fight Clubs: Gospel-Centered Discipleship. The eBook download will release here at The Resurgence on Saturday, August 1st.Discipleship does not place the professional at the top of the stairs peering down at his novice disciple. It is not about a vertical relationship, professional instructing the novice. It's not good advice over good coffee. Discipleship is much messier and weightier. It is radically horizontal. It is about a shared struggle in the gospel to live a life of repentance and faith in Jesus through the power of the Spirit. This struggle is constant. Every day, not just every week, every minute, not just every hour. In this struggle, we desperately need one another to fight the good fight with us. We need Fight Clubs.

Fight Clubs

Fight Clubs are about promoting gospel-centered discipleship, groups of two to three men or women fighting the fight of faith. We make disciples of one another in the gospel and in community. We are peers in Jesus, not professionals or novices. Fight Clubs promote a radical peer-to-peer discipleship.

Gospel-Centered Discipleship

This kind of discipleship is, in the end, not about how I perform but who I am—an imperfect person, clinging to a perfect Christ, being perfected by grace. And in this I am not alone. I am one disciple among many. I no longer stand at the top of the stairs but sit in the living room, where we share our faith and our un-faith, our obedience and our disobedience, our successes and our failures. But we don't stay there. We don't linger in imperfection, unbelief, disobedience, and failure. We fight. We fight the good fight of faith. We struggle to believe the promises of God over the fleeting promises of the world, the flesh, and the devil. We press on to Christ-imitating obedience and victory over sin. (Adapted from the Introduction: The Gospel is for Disciples Not just Sinners)