Intentional Discipleship: Equipping Men for Spiritual Leadership is by Todd Cox, independently published in 2024 (ISBN 979-8-334-06341-9).
Check which book you are buying
This is the most useful thing we can tell you. Todd Cox has published several titles with overlapping names, and this one has since been rebranded and reissued under a different name, Leading MEN. There is also an Intentional Discipleship: Devotional, an Intentional Discipleship: Leveraging Your Influence for God’s Kingdom, and a Get Strong Discipleship. Several of these share subtitle language.
It is genuinely easy to buy the same content twice here. Before you order, check the cover and the ISBN against whatever you already own, and confirm you are not picking up the rebranded edition of a book already on your shelf.
Who the author is
Cox spent nineteen years on staff at Long Hollow Baptist Church, where he led men’s ministry, marriage ministry, and discipleship. He later served as a director of spiritual growth for a ministry that launches discipleship groups. He has been doing this work for over twenty-five years. He is a real, verifiable practitioner, which puts him well ahead of most self-published titles in this category.
What it is for
The book is written for the man who has been asked to lead a group and does not know how to start, or who wants to disciple another man one to one and has never been shown a method. It is a practical ministry book rather than a devotional or a theology of manhood. If you want reflection and encouragement, this is not that. If you want a repeatable process, it is aimed squarely at you.
We cannot confirm the exact session count or whether the print edition includes worksheets. Our old review asserted a structure we could not verify, so we have dropped that claim. Use the preview to check the format before you commit a group to it.
One note on how we read it
Books in the “men’s spiritual leadership” category often slide into prescribing exactly what a man’s role is at home and at church. Called to Better holds that men and women have different but equal roles, and we do not go further than Scripture plainly does in defining them. Where a book gets more specific than that, we will say so rather than adopt its position as ours. This one is mostly focused on the mechanics of discipling, so the question comes up less than the title suggests it might.
Where we land
A reasonable pick for a men’s ministry leader who wants a working method from someone who has actually run these groups for two decades. Verify which edition you are ordering first.
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