One Disciple at a Time

How to Lead Others to Dynamic, Engaged, Life-Changing Faith

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Pub Date 6 May 2022 | Archive Date 20 May 2022

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What if the Church radically shifted the focus of her mission to making disciples one person at a time?

Everett Fritz outlines a framework for one-to-one outreach that helps us develop as mentors in faith, furthering the Kingdom of God as Jesus commanded when he told us to go and make disciples. When we learn how to focus on a ministry of one, we will multiply our efforts to create a movement that meets the spiritual needs of many.

Whether you’re someone who’s actively involved in professional or volunteer ministry or an everyday Catholic who wants share your faith, One Disciple at a Time reveals how you can live out your calling to spread the Gospel by focusing on forming disciples one at a time.

Drawing on insights gleaned from his personal spiritual journey and work in Catholic parish ministry, Fritz—founder and executive director of Andrew Ministries—shares practical steps for transforming our approach to living our faith and sharing it with others. In this book, you will learn:

· There is great power in a personal invitation because it becomes the seed to develop a relationship.

· If you want to make a lifelong disciple of Jesus Christ, you have to be committed to accompany them throughout their lifetime.

· Lessons from Jesus’s relationship with Simon Peter can transform the way we mentor in faith.

· Taking someone from disciple to sainthood requires assisting that person with the crosses that they bear, as well as witnessing to the reality of the cross in your own life.

· Formation needs to include identifying the person's God-given gifts and working with them to use those gifts to build up the Church.

What if the Church radically shifted the focus of her mission to making disciples one person at a time?

Everett Fritz outlines a framework for one-to-one outreach that helps us develop as mentors...


A Note From the Publisher

Everett Fritz is founder and executive director of Andrew Ministries, a nonprofit devoted to training parishes in discipleship and family based youth ministry. He has more than fifteen years of experience in youth ministry. He also is the author of Freedom and The Art of Forming Young Disciples, and the coauthor of Uncompromising Purity.

Fritz has been a regular guest on EWTN, Catholic Answers Live, and numerous podcast and radio programs. He has spoken all over the country presenting on discipleship through missions, retreats, and workshops for dioceses, parishes, schools, and organizations.

Fritz earned an associate’s degree from Holy Cross College, a bachelor’s degree in theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville, and a master’s degree in theology with concentrations in catechesis and evangelization from the Augustine Institute.

Everett Fritz is founder and executive director of Andrew Ministries, a nonprofit devoted to training parishes in discipleship and family based youth ministry. He has more than fifteen years of...


Advance Praise

““The Church today requires an approach to ministry that is not new, but is renewed. Everett Fritz places you at Jesus’s heart and empowers you to do the same for others. This book is a gift for all those who, like Jesus, want to change the world one person at a time!”
Chris Bartlett
Ablaze Ministries

One Disciple at a Time is wonderful! By taking an interest in someone, caring about them, and—when appropriate—mentoring them, we can help lead that person to make Jesus their number-one love. This book will help believers to become disciples who, in turn, make more disciples just as Jesus commanded us to do.”
Fr. Richard Gray
Pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and Our Lady of Sorrows

West River, Maryland

“This book is a call to do ministry as Jesus did—focused on one: the lost sheep, the found coin, the intimate conversation. Everything else we build needs to flow from that.”
Chris Stefanick
Founder and president of Real Life Catholic

““The Church today requires an approach to ministry that is not new, but is renewed. Everett Fritz places you at Jesus’s heart and empowers you to do the same for others. This book is a gift for all...


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Featured Reviews

One Disciple at a Time. One. Jesus left the 99 to search for the one. Not a group, not a ministry, one individual. Everett Fritz leads you on a very practical path on how to disciple one single individual, and quite honestly, I agree with his approach. The first six chapters are how he lays it out on how to disciple that one: connect, call, witness, encounter, pray, and challenge. The last two chapters deals with you and your leadership, and what that looks like. While Everett Fritz is Catholic and that is who his audience is in the book, I am not Catholic, and yet everything still appeals to the Christian faith, so please don't let that dissuade you from reading this to completion. Everett makes a good case. Jesus modeled His life before He called the apostles to follow Him. We are to lead by the same example. Not a large ministry that is just about "how many", but on a personal level modeled in every day life. Such a simple thing, and yet you don't see much of it in the churches today. One disciple raised up to lead the next disciple raised up to lead the next disciple. This is something we can do. Thank you Everett!!
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