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Transformational Discipleship

  • Incorporate Bloom's learning domains
  • Adapt Kolb's cycle
  • Find some illustrations of both
  • Biblical foundations for it

Working definition: At its best, Discipleship is transformative learning. It's the kind of learning that changes someone's life. Biblical discipleship is being on Christ's mission and taking others with you.


Transformational Discipleship has much in common with habit formation. The overall process develops rhythms within a person's life that engages all of the Learning DomainsLearning Domains
In the 1950s, an educational theorist named Benjamin Bloom proposed a significant concept that completely changed the way we think about education and learning. If you're an educator, you may be familiar with Bloom's Taxonomy. As part of his theory, Bloom suggested that learning happens across three different but interconnected domains.



The cognitive domain is probably the one most of us associate with learning, it's all about the head. It's knowledge and facts and concepts. But there were...
in an experiential learning process, similar to Kolb's Cycle. However, in order for this to be transformative in the appropriate sense, it must be grounded on Biblical Models of Discipleship.

Closely related to the process of discipleship are the Spiritual DisciplinesSpiritual Disciplines
Spiritual disciplines are a type of Deliberate PracticeDeliberate Practice
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The term Deliberate Practice was coined by K. Anders Ericsson in a 1993 article for the Psychological Review. The primary point of the study was that expertise is not necessarily natural born but is instead the result of deliberate practices.


The theoretical framework presented in this article explains expert performance as the end result of individuals' prolonged efforts to improve performance while negotiating motivational and externa...
which serve as the primary means of grace through which the Spirit sancitifies the believer and are essential to [[Transformational Discipleship]]. A number of these practices can be found throughout Scripture and include things such as: the regular study and memorization of the Scriptures, prayer, fasting, evangelism, corporate worship and fellowship, confession, and accountability.

Scripture does not provide an exhaustive or syste...
. These disciplines, empowered by the word of the Spirit in the life of the believer, become the Deliberate PracticeDeliberate Practice
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The term Deliberate Practice was coined by K. Anders Ericsson in a 1993 article for the Psychological Review. The primary point of the study was that expertise is not necessarily natural born but is instead the result of deliberate practices.


The theoretical framework presented in this article explains expert performance as the end result of individuals' prolonged efforts to improve performance while negotiating motivational and externa...
necessary for progressive sanctification to occur.

Biblical Discipleship

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