DNA of a Christ Follower: The 8 Essential Traits

Just a quick note that DNA of a Christ Follower is now available on Amazon. The link above (my Amazon Associate link) will bring you to the Kindle version, but you can also search for and get the paperback version.

If you are buying a softcover, whether you order via Amazon or this site, your price should be similar. However, if you want multiple copies- for instance a stack of them for your small group- then you might be better off ordering from this site.

If you do order from Amazon, after you have read the book, please consider leaving a review.

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DNA of a Christ Follower was recently reviewed by author and award winning speaker Rich Hopkins.

Excerpt from the Review:

“For me, a Christian for 31 years, a graduate of a Christian university, a one-time deacon, occasional class leader, and even a once in a blue moon substitute preacher who has not been as faithful in the body of Christ as he’d like to be over the last few years, this book was exactly what I needed. A reminder of the person I want to be, with some basic ideas of how to do so couple with ideals to aim for over the long haul of life on earth.
I especially resonated with his ‘Focused on Eternity’ chapter – as being a believer can sometimes be impossible armed only with short-term, earth-focused thinking.
If you’re a Christian, or someone who’s at least interested in what a Christ-follower might look like if they were really following the Bible, you’ll find this book a winner, and have it read inside a week.”

Read the full review here: Rich Hopkins on DNA of a Christ Follower

Thanks Rich!

Here is a sneak preview of the full cover of DNA of a Christ Follower.

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Special thanks to my cover designer Cathi Stevenson of Book Cover Express.

This is the second cover Cathi has done for me, the first being the cover for my life-planning/goal-setting book Release: A Wilderness Adventure of the Soul.

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A brief video introduction to the rationale behind the book “DNA of a Christ Follower.”

In this little clip I give you a brief overview of why I wrote the book and the basic idea behind it. The key idea I am trying to communicate here is that it is not so important that you agree with me on my eight non-negotiable character traits of a Christ Follower, but rather that you take the time to wrestle through what those traits in fact are, from scripture, so it is clear in your mind what you are called to BE and what you are called to reproduce as a follower of Jesus Christ.

Too few individual Christ followers and too few churches have taken the time to do this, and as a result a lot of our disciple making is tied to church activities and defined in terms of participation in those activities (attendance at the weekly worship service, involvement in a small group etc) – the “doing” side of things, rather than in terms of character- the “being” side of discipleship.

Even sooner than hoped my first peer reviewer has returned the DNA manuscript with feedback and ideas for improving and clarifying it in various ways. I also received a text message an hour or two ago letting me know that another one of my theologically and biblically astute friends was expecting to be done this week.

While I do not plan to dig in and do the first rewrite until the end of this month, I am chomping at the bit to get going and work over the manuscript to get it ready for the editor. I am sure that the work by the editor will necessitate another rewrite, though not as thorough as the one I expect to need following this current peer review.

One of the big questions I currently have, which I have presented to my reviewers, has to do with the final chapter that goes beyond the eight character qualities and begins to discuss the issue of churches making such disciples. I am at this point unsure whether to include such a chapter- since it is a shift away from the personal application of the principals to a leadership or pastoral application- and will not make up my mind until I hear back from my reviewers.