“Guilt is an excellent motivator but poor sustainer.” Gallatymentions David Platt’s influence on his life, and I had the same feeling while reading Platt’s first book Radical.
This type of guilt-ridden approach to leading people into the spiritual disciplines bothers me. “If you say you love God and you love the glory of God, then why are you not talking about Him everywhere you go? If you say you’re passionate about God and you’re thankful for what He has done for you, why are you not sharing that with people? Do your co-workers know about your relationship with the Lord?… Are you frequenting the same place at the same time to build relationships with the same people? You should be. One concern I had throughout the book was a sense of legalism in the approach to the spiritual disciplines listed above. Even so, it reads like it’s condensing and borrowing from other sources, such as Grasping God’s Word by Duvall and Hays. It does offer some helpful and simple ways to teach things such as basic hermeneutics.
The book doesn’t chart any new territory. While GU has some great quotes to amplify the above, the person looking for new material or models should look elsewhere. Evangelize (Share Your Faith with Others).Store (Memorize and Meditate on Scripture).Putting my quick synopsis in parentheses out beside each letter, CLOSER stands for: Using the acrostic CLOSER, he helpfully instructs those who wish to be disciple makers in ways to help their disciples grow in their faith in God and practice of spiritual disciplines.
#Growing up robby gallaty series#
One reality is for Growing Up is that it may have helpfully compiled discipleship processes from across the past 30 years and congealed them into this series of books. From Jerry Fine’s One on One with God to Avery Willis’ MasterLife to Navigators materialsto Fighter Verses, Gallaty creates a one-stop guide. Growing Up is the first in what will be a series of books aimed at being used as a resource in discipleship groups – Gallaty’s church calls them D-Groups.Īs I was reading the book, I couldn’t help feel like I was actually reading a compilation of many different, time-tested and well-known discipleship resources, quotes and tools. He probably needs to read my review of his book before he reviews my book. Robby contacted me and a host of other pastors, and he was gracious enough to agree to do a mutual book review of Super Center Savior in exchange for my review of Growing Up. I was blessed to receive a pre-release copy of pastor Robby Gallaty’s new book Growing Up for review. Throw in DiscipleShift by Jim Putman, Each One Disciple One by Stan Toler and Untamed by Alan Hirsch, and you’ve got a studly reading list. David Platt and Francis Chan have coauthored Multiplyand Follow Me intended to be a resource for local churches in helping Christians grow in their faith. Robby and his wife, Kandi, have two sons: Rig and Ryder.There’s been a slew of new books about discipleship this year. In addition to his leadership at Long Hollow, Robby is also the founder of Replicate Ministries and the author of several books, including Growing Up, Firmly Planted, Rediscovering Discipleship, and the LifeWay Bible study Knowing Jesus. Today Robby’s gospel conviction and evangelistic zeal compel him to passionately make disciples who make disciples. Robby earned his master of divinity in expository preaching in 2007 and his PhD in preaching in 2011 from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He also encouraged Robby to go back to school to pursue theological education. For the next two years David instilled a passion for missions, expository preaching, and disciple making in Robby’s life. After living without gas, electricity, and water for months losing eight of his friends to drug-related deaths watching six friends get arrested and completing two rehabilitation treatments, Robby remembered the gospel that a friend shared with him in college and was radically saved on November 12, 2002.Įight months later David Platt, a seminary student and church member at the time, asked Robby to meet weekly for accountability, prayer, and Bible study. A $180-a-day heroin and cocaine addiction drove him to steal $15,000 from his parents. He wasn’t always a pastor, though.įor three years Robby battled a drug addiction that ravaged his life. Robby Gallaty has served as the senior pastor of Long Hollow Baptist Church in Hendersonville, Tennessee, since 2015. Senior Pastor of Long Hollow Baptist Church in Hendersonville, TN
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