Live A Deeper,
Fuller Life.
EXPERIENCE REALITY WITH JESUS
I WILL (RE)MAKE YOU — JESUS
When I read Follow I said to myself, ‘This is the book I want the people in my church to read and study.’ It is a brilliant plan for apprenticeship to Jesus. I give it my highest recommendation.
— JAMES BRYAN SMITH
Author of The Good and Beautiful God
Life can feel fragmented.
We long for fullness, yet faith so often feels like lifeless knowledge. When and how can our knowledge impact our thoughts, words, and actions? We find ourselves feeling isolated in church community. We distract ourselves and disengage from here and now.
Most of what we call discipleship in the Modern Western church is merely teaching techniques for adapting a Christian worldview. It modifies the way we think about our contexts. Formational discipleship in the way of Jesus leads us as whole persons (heart, mind, body, relationships, soul) to be in the world with God and with each other. We become the kind of people who think, feel, speak, and act in the way of Jesus. It changes everything.
Follow exists to help you experience the reality of the good life according to Jesus.
Follow invites you to live a deeper, fuller life with God and with others through formational discipleship to Jesus. Follow exists to help you experience what Jesus describes as the good (or blessed) life.
The Good Life is the kind of life that resonates within and overflows towards those you love, lead, and your wider community. This is the life that participates in a bigger story – God’s Story. This is more than short-term change of behaviour but long-term change of character.
Follow invites you to experience this change as you learn all of life from Jesus. Walking the path that is simply the best way to live. Our books, resources, and course aim to realign your life from the ground up – reorienting your life to the Kingdom of God.
Graeme Anderson showcases the beauty and attractiveness of Jesus’ invitation to live a with-God life. The sermon on the mount is no longer a set of ‘shoulds’, but a description of a life available to me here and now. Dive in!
— JAN JOHNSON
Author of When the Soul Listens and President of Dallas Willard Ministries
THE WAY OF FOLLOW
We want to see changed people living whole lives
Grace
Grace is God acting in and through your life to do what you can’t do on your own. You can not earn grace, but you can work with God to experience ‘grace upon grace’.
Through various practices, Best Next Steps and the Follow Book will help create space for God’s grace to shape your heart, mind, body, and relationships – your soul.
Gratitude
Jesus invites you towards a kind of life that is overflowing with life. As you slow down to take notice of the ways God is acting in your life, you will be grateful. This gratefulness is a key part of joy – the all-encompassing experience of God’s goodness.
The Follow Journal will help you notice God’s grace and how God is shaping your life through the practices of the examen and lectio divina.
Community
We don’t merely follow Jesus as individuals but as a people. The context of genuine formational discipleship to Jesus is community.
The Follow Course provides material and resources that aid small or large groups of people to experience life with Jesus together.
2nd edition book — available now
2nd edition book — available now
Follow — Experiencing Life With Jesus
Follow — Experiencing Life With Jesus is an eight part experience of life with Jesus with a foundation on the Sermon on the Mount. Each part explores Jesus’ words from Matthew 5-7, provides space for deeper reflection, and habits that enable you to create space for the grace of God. This grace empowers and shapes you throughout the day-by-dayness of life. Follow invites you to be confident that Jesus has the best things to say about the most important things in life.
Follow is as concerned with un-learning as it is with learning … Follow is an inspiring examination of the way of Jesus, beautifully written, challenging, and comforting.
— MICHAEL FROST
Morling College, Sydney
Follow book — $30 AUD
FORMATION GROUPS
Follow Course
The Follow Course is a ten week experience of life with Jesus in community. It includes weekly videos, and small group resources that will enable you to read through the Follow book and experience its range of practices with others. If you and others are longing for a deeper, fuller life, this is for you.
The Foundations of Follow (Course excerpt)
REFLECT
Follow Journal
The Follow Journal is a resource designed to both help you observe how God is acting in and through your life, and to grow in your experience of opening yourself before Scripture (you will change, Scripture will stay the same). If you are committed to the rhythm of formational discipleship, this is for you.
TESTIMONIALS
We love to see people experience Jesus.
Geoff
EDUCATOR
“Undertaking the Follow course gave me a fresh opportunity to evaluate my journey with Jesus. I was challenged to give up my false programs for happiness and to trade them in for the real life that Jesus offers to each one of us – a life where striving ceases and simple obedience begins.”
Chloe
MUSICIAN
“The Follow course and book is like a pivot, a fork in the road, tipping the scales, calming the seas, slowly tipping me back towards Him. Back towards His goodness, back towards His truth and back towards His beauty. It was like resurfacing after holding my breath under water for a long time. I left the course feeling lighter, refreshed and excited about living intimately with my creator once again.”
Eliza
ADVOCACY
“The Follow course helped me to fall in love with Jesus all over again. Moved by His gentleness, stirred by His mission, and floored by His grace, I finished Follow in a place where I could genuinely believe – and boldly declare – that a life following Jesus is the best life possible.”
Louise
SPEECH PATHOLOGIST
for churches
Overflow
If you find your community is just going through the motions (and becoming more and more distracted with attendance, buildings, and cash), or if your community is enthralled only with the spectacle and you feel the pressure to provide, moving to a formational church model may well be for you. Formational churches focus primarily on how God’s Story (which we are in), shapes what we believe (what we are confident about), which then shapes our behaviour and relationships in the world. (Other church models tend to do this back-to-front, leaving people tired, confused, and disillusioned).
COACHING
Follow Leader
If you are a church leader navigating a communal shift from a church growth, missional, or traditional mindset to a formational church, Graeme is available for speaking and consulting.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Could churches in the Modern West be communities centred around discipleship — learning life from Jesus — and be places of long-lasting change for good?
Graeme Anderson
This was the question Graeme initially began exploring through Masters research and teaching in various denominations. He began a three-year focus studying the Gospel of John. The words of CS Lewis then came alive, “I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer, you are yourself the answer. Before your face all questions fade away”. Through the Renovarè Institute, Graeme learnt under Dallas Willard, Richard Foster, Jan Johnson, and James Bryan Smith. Learning from people whose life overflowed with the presence of Jesus was a deeply formative experience.
This has led to the Follow Course and the Follow book.
Graeme is married to Jen and they have three young children. He is an ordained Baptist pastor in Sydney, Australia. Previously he has enjoyed 10 years in the classroom as a primary teacher as well as a few years working professionally as a classical singer.
Graeme Anderson
