Small group Bible study: Choose a section to study together. Give each member the section to work through during the week. During the group time, facilitate a discussion of their answers and applications. Or, work through the section during your small group meetings. For example, study the Evangelism section together to become more confident in telling the gospel. Practice with each other.

Mentoring one-on-one: Work through a section during your time together. Assign the action points. Have him report the results next time you are together. Or, ask the mentee to take 15 minutes daily during his regular Bible and prayer time to study a section. Discuss his notes during your time together.

Accountability friendships and peers mentoring each other: Study sections together by mutual agreement and help each other align your lives with biblical truth. Helping a troubled friend: Find an appropriate Scripture to read with her during the phone call. Or, send her a copy of a sub-section from Prayer, Suffering, or Guidance that fits her dilemma. Or, send her a copy of an entire section.

Teaching a class: Larry taught his adult Sunday School class the Cross section – dying to selfishness and living wholeheartedly for Christ. He read the text aloud, keeping frequent eye contact with his audience, and used the Bible study questions to aid discussion.

Internships: During the Chi Alpha campus ministry internship in Bozeman, Montana, interns work through each section of Tools on their own during the week. They discuss it with their mentor during the weekly one-on-one. They finish the book by the end of the 10-month internship.

Training a leadership team: Spend one session teaching the Time Management section and follow up the application individually. During another session, teach How to Deliver a Correction from Talking Christianly section. Other sections dealing specifically with leadership issues include Authority, the Cross, and the Bible. Read right from the notebook. Put main points, Scriptures, and the cartoons into power point.

Leading a home group: Travis uses various sections with his home group of young couples in an isolated ranch community (for many, their first exposure to biblical Christianity). First, they studied the Bible section, then Evangelism with a clear presentation of the gospel, Talking Christianly, Forgiving, and the Cross. Travis copied a section for each person and gave it to them at the end of the meeting. They brought it back the next week with the questions answered. Travis led a discussion based on the questions and the group responded enthusiastically.

Self-study: Study straight through from beginning to end. Or, study the sections most appropriate for your current interest or concern. Write your answers on separate paper or right in the notebook. You can print off pages from the CD for others to study.

Preparing a short-term missions team: Work through the sections on Authority, Suffering, Missions, and the Cross. People may study them on their own and bring their responses and personal applications to the team meetings for discussion.

Preparing sermons: For example, use the Prayer section as an outline for a series on prayer. Add your own stories. Use the List of Scriptures at the end of the section for additional verses to incorporate. Put main points, Scriptures, and import the cartoons into your power point presentation.

Follow-up after prayer ministry: Someone struggling with a destructive habit comes for prayer after the service. Give her a copy of Overcoming Sin to work on this week. Set up an appointment to go over the study together with you or another leader. Pastoral prayer counsel: Find the right Scripture quickly either at the end of an appropriate section or in the Appendices – Helpful Scriptures by Topic. Send the Forgiving section home with a resentful person to prepare for the next appointment.

Correspondence course: Send sections or sub-sections to a Christian prisoner. Have him write his answers and send it back to you. After you write your comments and encouragement, return it to him along with the next part.

Mentoring a serious struggler (ex-prisoner, addict, or others shattered by sin): Study the Bible section with him and help him establish a daily Bible reading habit where he expects God to speak to him. Prioritize working through Moral Inventory, Forgiving, Overcoming Sin, Financial Management, and Authority. Either go through one section completely or do parts of several sections. Go through the sections with him as well as have him study on his own and bring you his answers and applications.