About Audio Books The Passionate Pursuit Praise and Worship Walking in Fellowship The New Nature The Cross: His and Ours How to Become a Word Processor How to Make a Faith Transaction How to Pray Effectively School of Obedience Of Kings and Thrones
Developing the Holy Habits of Faith
 

What is OMEGA?

OMEGA is a discipleship ministry that focuses on the daily disciplines of a fully-functioning Christian. OMEGA gives serious attention to the stages and strategies for experiencing Jesus from the moment of conversion to the most advanced stage of spiritual maturity.

Two Greek words for “disciple” guide OMEGA’S  approach: mathetes, which means a learner, and opados, which means a follower. Each word represents an essential element of discipleship: belief and behavior, precept and practice, doctrine and deed, learning and living, the didactic and the organic. OMEGA isn’t just a class; OMEGA provides the sharing, the support, and the supervision needed for the Word to become flesh.

OMEGA offers a well-researched ten-book curriculum that provides intriguing insights while using both practical truths and accessible language. Consistent with OMEGA, these books convey high standards. The books vary in length. The average length is 183 pages; the average cost is $8.10. Books are purchased incrementally, at the time they are needed. There is also a Group Leader’s Guide that gives instructions to group leaders for every chapter of every book.  Each book, with a description of its contents, is individually listed in the section below titled BOOKS.  

 
 

Why OMEGA?

OMEGA serves the most underserved people in the church, people who reach a midway point in their spiritual maturity but don’t get to “the other side.” This problem is actually predictable; because, by trying to communicate to a congregation with a wide level of spiritual growth, there is a tendency for churches to aim for the middle. So that’s where their people end up!  

Being in the middle, however, can be dangerous—whether it’s being in the middle of the road during the rush of oncoming traffic, or being in the middle of a lake when, suddenly, a rising and raging storm appears. Jesus didn’t want his disciples stuck in the middle. His command was for them to go to “the other side.”  

Getting to the other side is more of a wish than a goal in most churches. We teach foundational truths in a discipleship program called Alpha, but when it comes to “perfecting the saints,” no serious effort is given to identify the characteristics and competencies of a “perfected saint,” or to formulate a scripturally-consistent strategy that will promote these qualities. Churches are clear about the beginning; they’re not clear about the end. They focus on Alpha. They don’t focus on Omega. Instead, church leaders assume, without examination, that if people hang around our church long enough, they’ll become perfected. Really? The actual result is church members meandering in mediocrity, all because their leaders didn’t recognize the principle: We tend not to reach the goals we never set.  

The best way to revive a church is to bring her most faithful members to a much higher level. The rest of the church will get the benefit of the overflow from their freshly inspired zeal, increased knowledge, and their ability to help others rise to a higher level of living (II Timothy 2:2).

 
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Advanced discipleshipSpiritual disciplinesHoly habits of faithDiscipleship that delves deeperDaily disciplines of a fully-functioning ChristianStrategies for the spiritually stuckMapping your spiritual journeyA vision-casting view of biblical fellow…

Overview of OMEGA: Advanced Discipleship

The first three books of OMEGA: Advanced Discipleship focus on intimacy.

The key dynamics for increasing one’s intimacy with the Lord and with each other are strategically set forth in these three books.

The next two books focus on identity.

The believer’s identity is uniquely located in the new nature, a reality scarcely understood by most believers. Our identity was secured at the cross of Jesus and is released when we take up our cross and become filled with the Spirit.

The next three books focus on increase.

The goal is to increase our ability to apply the Word, prevail in prayer, and succeed in faith.

The last two OMEGA: Advanced Discipleship books focus on implementation.

Obedience and service are the major aspects of this focus. The “knew but didn’t do” phenomenon must be reversed on the inside first. Only those committed to consistent obedience can “reign in life,” and be both servant and king. These books explain how this can be done.

 

Books

 

The Passionate Pursuit 
Getting Closer and Closer to God 

Many people reach a juncture in their spiritual journey and don’t know what to do next. Their spiritual life is like swimming in thickly congealed Jell-O or running in a melting, sticky tar pit. By mapping the methods and contemplating the conditions for knowing God, the spiritually stuck condition can be avoided. This book sets forth a spiritual-growth itinerary that leads to levels of living not previously experienced. 

 
 

Praise and Worship 
Transitioning from Spectator to Practitioner 

The heart response many have toward worship is characterized more by yawning than yearning. Perhaps this is true because these people have never experienced the worship described in the Bible. Instead, they have found themselves stranded in the outer court, stuck with protocols having more form than force. They may want God to make them into a fervent worshiper, but nothing in their past experience, or on the present horizon, gives them any hope at all this is going to happen. So, pursuing an agenda where hope becomes reality, this book examines each component of worship with the goal of transitioning the believer from being a spectator to becoming a practitioner of true worship.

 
 

Walking in Fellowship 
By Activating the “One Another” Principles 

Fellowship—the sharing of the inner life, in the context of God’s Word, and in the energy of the Holy Spirit—is essential to a successful pursuit of God. The “one another” principles in Scripture provide a cameo-sharp picture of what biblical fellowship really looks like. However, determined to distort whatever Scripture depicts, the truth-twister today wants us to think that small groups and fellowship are practically synonymous. They are not. This book offers a vision-casting view of fellowship and an in-depth analysis of the dynamics that make it work. 

 
 

The New Nature 
The Most Astounding Doctrine in Scripture 

The new nature, the most astounding doctrine in Scripture is also the least understood. This book explains what the new nature is, how it was created, how it is received, how it is released, and how it can be sustained. Designed to help believers who are chug-chug-chugging along on two cylinders instead of eight, this book explains why spiritual growth only occurs when the new nature is released. When the seed of God’s Word lands on the mind only, this isn’t good ground for a harvest. Without the new nature, the believer may be deceived into trusting USDA prime flesh; and that produces nothing God will reward. 

 
 

The Cross: His and Ours 
The Accomplishments of His Cross and the Benefits of Ours 

The losses that come from only a partial understanding of the cross are of great consequence to believers. If we don’t know all that Jesus’ cross accomplished, we won’t claim what could be ours. Moreover, if we don’t know the benefits of the crucified life, we’ll miss out on those benefits, too. Under the mud and the blood of the cross is buried a rich treasure that this book uncovers. When activated today, the cross removes that imposter self within us that has been causing so many problems. Finally, once the cross is no longer in our rearview mirror but is front and center daily directing our life, the divine life emerges. 

 
 

How to Become a Word Processor 
Letting the Word Translate You 

There is an enormous difference between accessing the Word and processing the Word. Accessing the Word identifies truth; processing the Word actualizes truth. Accessing the Word doesn’t necessarily change us; processing the Word does. To generalize truth is one thing; to internalize it is another. For many Christians there is a Grand Canyon gap between belief and behavior, between their talk and their walk, between what they know and what they grow. This book will help believers close that gap. 

 
 

How to Make a Faith Transaction 
Step-by-Step Instructions for Releasing Faith 

Faith has been heralded for its importance, trumpeted for its outcomes, lionized for its heroes, lauded for its accessibility, and subsequently summoned from every believer—but without explanation! People are told to exercise faith, but they aren’t taught the Scripture-stipulated steps for making a faith transaction with God. Because faith is the only way to lay hold of God—in conversion and in every aspect of the abundant life—this book sets forth a step-by-step procedure for releasing faith. 

 
 

How to Pray Effectively 
What Most Christians Don’t Know 

Believers may be earnest and honest in the prayers they say, but there is an enormous difference between saying prayers and praying. To speak to God from our own minds is one thing. To have a prayer birthed in us by the Spirit and then borne by him to the Throne Room of the universe is another. We must be clear on what effective prayer is, and isn’t. This book examines the purposes of prayer, the problems of prayer, and the methods for prevailing prayer. 

 
 

School of Obedience 
How to Live a Consistently Obedient Life 

The fact that sinning keeps winning is a lamentable legacy for many Christians. Despite renewed vows—each preceded by clenched-teeth resolve and followed by red-eye remorse—the serpent’s hissing continues to indict: s-s-s-sin! Obedience has a pivotal importance for our spiritual growth. Yet, despite this importance, obedience school has become a concept for poodles and not people. The sad result is a defeated church. This book sets forth the exact principles needed to show people how to “want to” when their “wanter” doesn’t want to. 

 
 

Of Kings and Thrones 
God’s Forecast Calls for More Reign 

Whenever low vision neutralizes great promises, it isn’t humility at work; it’s unbelief. The visionless Christianity that is widespread in the church today amazes angels and amuses Satan. But how can this be? Heaven stands ready to back the church! There are vast resources at the church’s disposal, if only faith would requisition them. This book elevates the vision of what our service can achieve. The book also explains how we can be both servant and king, as we resonate to the fact that God’s forecast calls for more reign. Included in this book is a rich teaching on throne life. 

 
 

Group Leader’s Guide
Developing the Holy Habits of Faith 

This leader’s guide explains how to launch OMEGA in the church. This guide also offers specific suggestions for a group leader, with different contingencies contemplated and different options presented for every chapter in every book. In addition, the Group Leader’s Guide provides training for effective group dynamics.