Purdue XA: DNA Tools Order of Use Notes: Semesters are 16 wks, including finals week. Dship book & TFM are based on a 10-wk schedule. Each disciple begins with the Disciple book and moves on to the modules of Tools for Mentoring outlined in the pages below. New believers follow the outline for Fall and Spring Freshmen as outlined below. Established believers should be able to do a chapter a week and get through the Disciple book in one semester, in which case they move directly into Tools for Mentoring s Yielded Life module and continue with the TFM modules as outlined below in the Sophomores section and continue forward in the order outlined for as long as they are in discipleship. Freshmen (Fall) Overall Summary: First 8 chapters of Disciple book I. Disciple Book (Chapters 1-8) A. Week 1 Ch 1 In the Beginning pg. 6-8a Stop at 'Results of Sin' (Genesis 1:1) B. Week 2 Ch 1 In the Beginning pg. 8B-11 (Romans 6:23) C. Week 3 Ch2 New Beginnings pg. 12-14a Stop at 'Repentance' (Romans 10:9-10) D. Week 4 Ch 2 New Beginnings pg. 14b-16 (2 Corinthians 5:17) E. Week 5 Ch 3 Baptism in Water & Spirit pg. 17-19 (Romans 6:4) F. Week 6 Ch 3 Baptism in Water & Spirit pg. 20-21 (Acts 1:8) G. Week 7 Ch 4 God the Good Dad pg. 22-23a Stop at 'Earthly Parents' (John 1:12) H. Week 8 Ch 4 God the Good Dad pg. 23b-25 (Ephesians 6:2-3) I. Week 9 Ch 5 Being a Disciple pg. 26-28 (Luke 9:23) J. Week 10 Ch 6 Spending Time with God pg. 29-31 (Psalm 119:9,11) K. Week 11 Ch 6 Spending Time with God pg. 32-35 (John 4:23-24) L. Week 12 Ch 7 Love & Forgiveness pg. 36-37 (John 13:35) M. Week 13 Ch 7 Love & Forgiveness pg. 38-41 (Matthew 6:14-15) N. Week 14 Ch 8 Sexual Revolution pg. 42-45 (1 Corinthians 6:18-20) Freshmen (Spring) Overall Summary: Last 4 chapters of Disciple book then TFM s Yielded Life (11 weeks) - continue over summer if necessary to finish I. Disciple Book (Chapters 9-12) A. Week 1 Ch 9 Gather with Other Disciples pg. 46-48a Stop at 'Where Churches Gather' (Acts 2:42) B. Week 2 Ch 9 Gather with Other Disciples pg. 48b-51 (Hebrews 10:24-25) C. Week 3 Ch 10 Make Other Disciples pg. 52-53 (Matthew 28:18-20)
D. Week 4 Ch 10 Make Other Disciples pg. 54-57 (Matthew 4:19) E. Week 5 Ch 11 Healing, Signs & Wonders pg. 58-60a Stop at 'Casting out Demons' (Mark 16:17-18) F. Week 6 Ch 11 Healing, Signs & Wonders pg. 60b-62 (John 14:12) G. Week 7 Ch 12 God's Global Plan pg. 63-66 (Habakkuk 2:14) II. Tools for Mentoring s The Yielded Life Unit (11 weeks) A. Freedom to Love Counting the Cost (week 1) B. The Multiplied Life - Changing by Grace (week 2) C. Living the Yielded Life: Taking Up Your Cross to Follow Jesus 1. Right to do what you want (week 3) 2. Right to position - right to people s approval (week 4) 3. Right to marriage right to shelter and food (week 5) 4. Right to gifts and talents - right to sleep (week 6) 5. Right to finances - right to friends (week 7) 6. Right to entertainment - right to clothes (week 8) 7. Right to time - right to life itself (week 9) D. Dying to Selfishness Powerful People (week 10) E. Three Responses - Most Powerful People (week 11) F. Scripture Memory for the Yielded Life unit: 1. Luke 9:24-25 2. Romans 8:12-13 3. Isaiah 53:6 4. Galatians 1:10 5. Philippians 4:12-13 6. 1 Peter 4:10-11 7. Luke 14:33 8. Galatians 5:13,16 9. Romans 14:8 10. Colossians 3:23-24 11. Jeremiah 17:7
Sophomores (Fall) Overall Summary: TFM Bible (6 weeks) then TFM Prayer (4 weeks) I. Bible A. The Reliability of the Bible - The Bible is Unique (week 1) B. The Bible is Examined - Scholarly Tests (week 2) C. Interacting with the Bible - The Case for Meeting with God Regularly (week 3) D. Make a Bible Reading Plan - Study Questions (week 4) E. Guidelines for Interpreting Scripture - Understanding Parables (week 5) F. Understanding Narratives - Understanding Prophecy (week 6) G. Scripture Memory 1. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 2. Hebrews 4:12 3. 2 Peter 1:20-21 4. Acts 17:11 5. Exodus 34:6-7 6. 2 Timothy 2:15 II. Prayer A. What is Prayer? - Why Pray? (week 1) B. How to Pray - Give us this Day our Daily Bread (week 2) C. Forgive us our Debts - How Do You Hear God s Voice? (week 3) D. Praying with Others - If Your Prayers are not Answered (week 4) 1. Pray Some Prayers of the Bible (Paul and Moses) 2. Pray Some Prayers of the Bible (Psalms) 3. Fasting H. Scripture Memory 1. Psalms 40:1 2. Matthew 6:9-13 3. 1 Samuel 3:10 4. Matthew 18:20 5. Ephesians 3:17-18 6. Psalms 23:1 7. Matthew 6:18
Sophomores (Spring) Overall Summary: Worship (1 week), Water Baptism (1 week), then Baptism in Holy Spirit (7 weeks) I. Worship A. All of it B. Scripture Memory 1. Psalms 100:1-2 II. Water Baptism A. Water Baptism - Believe and Be Baptized (week 1) B. Baptism Illustrates a Spiritual Reality - Do You Need to be Baptized to Have Salvation? (week 2) C. What If You Sin After You are Baptized? - What If You Were Baptized as an Infant? (wk 3) 1. Acts 2:38-39 2. Romans 6:3 3. Colossians 2:12 III. Baptism in the Spirit A. The Trinity - Experience All Three Persons of the Trinity (week 1) B. The Promise of the Baptism with the Holy Spirit - (week 2) C. The Promise Fulfilled - The Baptism with the Holy Spirit is for You (week 3) D. Preparing to Receive the Baptism with the Holy Spirit - Receive the Baptism of the Spirit (week 4) E. Keep Being Filled with the Holy Spirit - Is the Promise or Gift Referring to the Baptism with the Holy Spirit (week 5) F. How to Use the Gifts of the Holy Spirit - The Vocal Gifts (week 6) G. The Revelatory Gifts - Miraculous Powers (week 7) H. Scripture Memory 1. Deuteronomy 6:4 2. John 7:37-39 3. Acts 2:1-2 4. Luke 11:13 5. Ephesians 5:18 6. 1 Corinthians 13:1 7. Luke 9:1-2
Juniors (Fall) Overall Summary: Repentance and Moral Inventory (3 weeks), Authority (5 weeks), then Forgiveness (1 week) I. Repentance & Moral Inventory A. Repentance: God s Invitation to Freedom - Dealing with Past Sins: Clearing Your Conscience (week 1) B. Making a Mortal Inventory - Non-Christian Religions (week 2) C. Drunkenness, Drug and Partying - Resentment or Bitterness (week 3) 1. 1 John 1:9 2. James 5:16 3. Psalm 51:10 II. Authority A. Submission to God and to One Another - Rebellion (week 1) B. Leading Like Jesus - Spiritual Leaders (week 2) C. Government and Civil Leaders - Employers and Supervisors (week 3) D. Parents - Husbands and Wives (week 4) E. Responding to Weakness in Authorities - Limits to Submission (week 5) F. Scripture Memory 1. Psalm 145:13 2. Mark 10:45 3. 1 Timothy 2:1-2 4. Ephesians 5:21 5. Galatians 5:22-23 III. Forgiving A. All of it B. Scripture Memory 1. Matthew 18:21-22
Juniors (Spring) Overall Summary: Sex & Dating (7 weeks) then Overcoming Sin (4 weeks) I. Sex & Dating A. Attraction Happens - What Sex Means to God (week 1) B. Why Abstinence? - Establish Boundaries (week 2) C. Heart Boundaries - Sexual Fasting (week 3) D. Pornography - Steps to Forgiveness, Healing and Freedom (week 4) E. Dating - The Next Level: Discovering If This Is the One (week 5) F. Compatibility for Marriage Checklist - If You Keep Repeating a Destructive Pattern (wk 6) G. Homosexuality - Resources Addressing Homosexuality (week 7) H. Scripture Memory 1. Romans 6:12-13 2. 2 Timothy 2:2 3. Proverbs 4:23 4. Luke 6:45 5. 1 Corinthians 15:33 6. 2 Corinthians 6:14 7. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 II. Overcoming Sin A. Jesus Saves You from Sin Three Ways - Salvation by Grace (week 1) B. Steps to Overcoming Sin and Changing - Step Four: You Do Whatever It Takes (week 2) C. Steps on the Journey of Change - The Pride of Self-Conquest (week 3) D. Temptation - Sin is an Addictive Substance (week 4) E. Scripture Memory 1. Philippians 2:13 2. Hebrews 12:1-2 3. Romans 12:1-2 4. 1 Corinthians 10:13
Seniors (Fall) Overall Summary: Evangelism (3 weeks), Missions (2 weeks), then Suffering (5 weeks) I. Evangelism A. Compelled by Love - Evangelism is War (week 1) B. Make the Gospel Message Clear - Make Your Own Pamphlet (week 2) C. Moving the Conversation toward Spiritual Matters - Answering Sincere Questions (wk 3) 1. 2 Corinthians 5:20 2. Romans 3:23 3. Romans 5:8 II. Missions A. God of All Nations - Abraham s Spiritual Heirs (week 1) B. How to Be a World Christian: Pray, Give, Go - Intentional Life Choices of a World Christian (week 2) C. Scripture Memory 1. Genesis 12:2-3 2. Revelation 7:9 III. Suffering A. How to Respond to Trouble and Suffering - Do you Complain? (week 1) B. Do You Ask, Why Me? - Do You Wonder Why God Takes So Long to Answer Your Prayers (week 2) C. Are You Persecuted for Doing What is Right? - Are You Anxious, Stressed, or Worried? (week 3) D. Keep an Eternal Perspective - How Will I be Able to Overcome? (week 4) E. How Will I be Able to Overcome? - Receive God s Comfort (week 5) F. Scripture Memory 1. John 16:33 2. Isaiah 55:8 3. 1 Peter 2:12 4. 2 Corinthians 4:18 5. Romans 8:18
Seniors (Spring) Overall Summary: Guidance (3 weeks), Work Ethic (2 weeks), then Financial Mgmt (3 weeks) I. Guidance A. God Will Guide a Yielded Life - Do Advantages Outweigh the Disadvantages (week 1) B. Prepare Yourself to Hear God s Guidance - Test for Guidance from Gifts of the Holy Spirit (week 2) C. Wise Words about Knowing God s Will - Fulfilling God s Will in Any Circumstance (week 3) 1. Proverbs 3:5-6 2. James 1:5 3. Psalms 37:4 II. Work Ethic A. Working in the Garden - How to Work and How Not to Work (week 1) B. Good Advice about How to Work - Sabbath: A Day of Rest (week 2) C. Scripture Memory 1. Genesis 2:15 2. Exodus 20:8 III. Financial Mgmt A. Living in Two Kingdoms - Ruled by One - Whose Money Is It? (week 1) B. Managing God s Resources Wisely - Give to Empower the Vulnerable (week 2) C. Managing God s Resources Unwisely - Living for Temporal Pursuits (week 3) 1. Psalm 24:1 2. Matthew 6:21 3. Proverbs 22:8
Supplements Overall Summary: Time mgmt (3 weeks) and Talking Christianly (4 weeks) I. Time Mgmt A. Buy What You Really Want: A Parable - What is Important to You (week 1) B. Lifetime Goals - One-Year Goals (week 2) C. Make a Plan and Make It Happen - Some Great Ideas to Manage Your Time (week 3) 1. Ephesians 5:15 2. Psalm 90:12 3. Matthew 6:33 II. Talking Christianly A. The Ministry of Conversation - Practical Ways to Encourage People (week 1) B. How You Think is How You ll Speak - Should You Listen? (week 2) C. Giving and Receiving Feedback or Correction - Why Give Feedback or Correction (week 3) D. Resolving Conflict -How Do You Have the Conversation (week 4) E. Scripture Memory 1. Proverbs 18:21 2. James 1:26 3. 1 Peter 5:5 4. Colossians 3:13
Genesis 1:1 Genesis 2:15 Genesis 12:2-3 Exodus 20:8 Exodus 34:6-7 Deuteronomy 6:4 1 Samuel 3:10 Psalms 23:1 Psalms 24:1 Psalms 37:4 Psalms 40:1 Psalms 51:10 Psalms 90:12 Psalms 100:1-2 Psalms 119:9, 11 Psalms 145:13 Proverbs 3:5-6 Proverbs 4:23 Proverbs 18:21 Proverbs 22:8 Isaiah 53:6 Isaiah 55:8 Jeremiah 17:7 Habakkuk 2:14 Matthew 4:19 Matthew 6 :9-13, 14-15, 18, 21, 33 Matthew 18:20-22 Matthew 28:18-20 Mark 10:45 Mark 16:17-18 Luke 6:45 Luke 9 :1-2, 23-25 Luke 11:13 Luke 14:33 John 1:12 John 4:23-24 John 7:37-39 John 13:35 John 14:12 John 16:33 Acts 1:8 Acts 2 :1-2, 38-39, 42 Acts 17:11 Romans 3:23 Romans 5:8 Romans 6 :3-4, 12-13, 23 Romans 8:12-13, 18 Romans 10:9-10 Romans 12:1-2 Complete Scripture List
Romans 14:8 1 Corinthians 6 :9-11, 18-20 1 Corinthians 10:13 1 Corinthians 13:1 1 Corinthians 15:33 2 Corinthians 4:18 2 Corinthians 5:17, 20 2 Corinthians 6:14 Galatians 1:10 Galatians 5:13, 16, 22-23 Ephesians 3:17-18 Ephesians 5:15, 18, 21 Ephesians 6:2-3 Philippians 2:13 Philippians 4:12-13 Colossians 2:12 Colossians 3:13, 23-24 1 Timothy 2:1-2 2 Timothy 2:2, 15 2 Timothy 3:16-17 Hebrews 4:12 Hebrews 10:24-25 Hebrews 12:1-2 James 1:5, 26 James 5:16 1 Peter 2:12 1 Peter 4:10-11 1 Peter 5:5 2 Peter 1:20-21 1 John 1:9 Revelation 7:9 **bold denotes Disciple book (1st semester) Last updated by TP in May 2016