Dive Deeper with Go green
Below, you will find a list of resources that will help you go deeper as an individual or as a small group in understanding and applying basic spiritual fundamentals. We encourage you to review these resources and utilize them in taking the next step in your spiritual walk. We are excited about what God is planning to do in your life, especially with regard to the growth you will experience as we focus on the fundamentals.

Essential Christianity: Practical Steps for Spiritual Growth by Bill Hybels (view book)
This resource seeks to equip people who are new to faith in Jesus by providing a basic understanding of what faith in Christ is, how to grow in one's relationship with Christ, how to deal with struggles, and how to be a follower of Jesus in the real world. This is a resource that is appropriate for an individual or a group of people investigating faith in Jesus or for beginning believers.

Transformation: Letting God Change You from the Inside Out by Bill Hybels  (view book)
This study focuses on important aspects of our lives such as our heart, our thoughts, our voice, our hands, and how God wants to transform these parts of us through fundamental practices and how in the process, we ourselves are radically changed. This resource is appropriate for beginning and growing believers and groups.  

Fully Devoted: Living Each Day in Jesus' Name by John Ortberg  (view book)
The study focuses on five truths and practices that lie at the heart of the Christian life: Grace, Growth, Groups, Gifts, and Giving. These five truths and practices are used to create markers or benchmarks for measuring a person's spiritual standing and growth. The study enables participants to diagnose where they are spiritually and helps them to chart a path for spiritual growth. This resource is appropriate for individuals and groups at any stage of spiritual growth.

The Life You've Always Wanted by John Ortberg  (view book)
Across the ages, followers of Christ have found that growing in their faith involves not trying harder but in applying consistent spiritual principles or disciplines to life. This book offers a re-casting of these time tested spiritual disciplines for ordinary people, charting a course along ancient proven paths in our modern world. This resource is appropriate for people beginning their faith or those desiring a basic understanding of proven paths to spiritual maturity.  

Growing Your Faith by Jerry Bridges  (view book)
In this book, Jerry Bridges provides solid, practical help in understanding both the necessity of spiritual growth and the path to such growth through the application of basic spiritual disciplines and practices. This resource is appropriate for those who are new to the faith or for those who are wishing to take their spiritual life to a deeper level.  
 

Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ by Dallas Willard  (view book)
In this book, Willard discusses the ultimate end game of spiritual growth, becoming like Christ, where our entire person is organized around God. Realizing that becoming like Christ is not found in a formula but in a radical transforming process that must begin in our hearts, Willard outlines this intentional process of transformation in which we participate as apprentices of Jesus. This resource is appropriate for maturing believers or for any follower of Christ who wishes to be challenged in taking the next step in growing their faith. 


Renovations of the Heart in Daily Practice: Experiments in Spiritual Transformation by Dallas Willard and Jan Johnson  (view book)
This resource is for those persons who want help in living out the truths found in Willard's Renovation of the Heart. The book includes 61 days' worth of readings, journaling exercises, and opportunities to experiment with God's transforming process in real ways. This resource is appropriate for maturing followers of Christ who desire to be challenged to grow their faith in practical ways.