Welcome

discipleFLIP is not a program tied to a single curriculum—certainly not limited to the discipleFLIP book. The book was written to explain the strategy and to guide leaders in shaping a discipleship philosophy, not to serve as the exclusive resource for carrying it out.

discipleFLIP is not a curriculum for disciple-making. It is a strategy designed to establish a philosophy of discipleship that empowers ministries to use a variety of biblically sound tools, studies, and resources within a unified framework.

Discipleship is most effective when it is rooted in a clear strategy rather than dependent on a single program. discipleFLIP offers that strategy. Built on four biblical movements—Find, Listen, Invest, and Persist—this framework provides a philosophy of disciple-making that can leverage a variety of curriculums and resources without being confined to just one.

Rather than replacing proven materials, discipleFLIP complements and strengthens them. For example, churches can integrate Navigator tools such as The Wheel Illustration or TMS Scripture Memory and align them with the “Invest” and “Persist” movements. Likewise, discipleship.org resources—with their emphasis on relational disciple-making—fit seamlessly within the Find and Listen movements. discipleFLIP ensures these resources do not function in isolation, but as part of a holistic, reproducible disciple-making process.

This approach creates freedom and flexibility for ministries: leaders can draw from the best of Navigator resources, discipleship.org studies, or other biblically sound materials, while always moving within the same disciple-making strategy. In short, discipleFLIP is not the curriculum—it is the strategy by which any curriculum is applied to form disciples who multiply.

The discipleFLIP book was never written to compete with other discipleship programs or to position itself as a “go-to” curriculum for personal gain. Instead, it was born out of prayerful wrestling with a critical concern: that disciple-making in many churches had shifted from Jesus’ clear model and commission to something viewed merely as the local church’s programmatic responsibility.

What later became discipleFLIP began as my doctoral dissertation at Gateway Seminary, a work required for graduation but driven by conviction. The intent was never to produce another curriculum, but rather to articulate a philosophy of disciple-making that could undergird and guide any ministry’s efforts. In this way, discipleFLIP is designed to serve as a bedrock strategy, not a stand-alone curriculum—anchoring churches in Jesus’ model while freeing them to use a variety of tools and resources within that framework.

- Dr. Patrick W. Giraldin

Below are links to multiple curriculums that are Biblically based and theologically sound.