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Next Steps

Chrysalis is more than a three-day mountaintop experience for young people.  The three-day experience aims to deepen young people's experience of God's companionship for everyday life and to strengthen their commitment to follow Jesus back into their familiar environments of friendships, school, family, church, and work.  Chrysalis supports young people's return to the world as butterflies by encouraging and strengthening their local church and youth group connections.

          Next Step Groups are small groups of young people who have been on a Chrysalis Flight or Journey.  The groups are designed to keep the spirit of the Chrysalis weekend alive and staying in relationship to help one another live in the light of God's love as disciples of Jesus Christ.  At the end of a Chrysalis weekend, participants are broken into groups by churches, schools, or towns.  In some communities, young people divide themselves into groups by regular times and days when they would be able to meet.


It’s Important to Stay Focused

Staying focused on God is the key in your walk with Christ. Sometimes it's difficult to find a way to keep focused on God in our everyday life, or like most we just simply don't feel like taking the effort to do this. It is important to keep God the center of your life or you will become distant from God.  Being a Christian is living the life of a Christian, like the book of 1 John tells us. Along with the book of 1 John, there are many other books in and out of the Bible. We hope this list of scripture and books will assist you.

The Bible
Begin with the Gospel of John--Read regularly.  Read 1 John, Philipians, the other Gospels, 1 Thessalonians, 1 Corinthians & move on to other Bible studies.

For the New Christian

  • In His Steps by Sheldo
  • How to Pray by Torrey
  • Four Spiritual Laws by Campus Crusade
  • Quiet Time by Intervarsity Staff
  • A Handbook for Christian Maturity by Bright
  • Lord, Change Me by Christenson
  • A Shepherd Looks at the 23rd Psalm by Keller
  • My Heart, Christ's Home by Munger
  • Too Busy Not to Pray by Hybels

    Continuing Your Walk

  • Disciples Are Made, Not Born by Henrichsen
  • Hinds Feet on High Places by Hurnard
  • The Will of God by Weatherhead
  • How to Really Love Your Child/Teenager by Campbell
  • Experiencing God by Blackaby & King
  • I've Got to Talk to Somebody by Holmes
  • When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Kushner
  • When All You Really Wanted Isn't Enough by Kushner
  • My Utmost for His Highest by Chambers
  • The Sacred Romance by Curtis & Eldredge
  • Twice Pardoned by Morris
  • Beyond the Barriers by Morris
  • What's So Amazing About Grace? by Yancy
  • God Calling by Russell
  • Healing for Damaged Emotions by Seamands
  • Growing Through Divorce by Smoke
  • When There is No Miracle by Wise

    Book Suggestions for Singles

    Devotionals

  • Window to My Heart: Reflections of a Single Woman by Joy Hawkins
  • Single to God by Douglas Fagerstrom
  • 51 Good Things to Do While You’re Waiting by Harold Ivan Smith
  • Holy Me by Harold Ivan Smith
  • Single But Not Alone by Jane Graver
  • Single Purpose by H. Norman Wright
  • Moments for Singles by Leigh McLeroy
  • Wait for Me Journal by Rebecca St. James

    Dating

  • Choosing God’s Best by Dr. Don Ravnikar
  • I’ve Kissed Dating Goodbye by Josh Harris
  • Boundaries in Dating by Dr. Henry Cloud/Dr. John Townsend
  • Knight in Shining Armor by P.B. Wilson
  • When God Writes Your Love Story by Eric & Leslie Ludy
  • Finding Your Million Dollar Mate by Randy Pope
  • Date or Soul Mate? by Neil Clark Warren
  • Finding Mr. Right by Steve Arterburn
  • Finding Your Perfect Mate by H. Norman Wright
  • Relationships That Work & Those That Don’t by H. Norman Wright
  • Discovering Your Lifelong Love by P.B. Wilson
  • I Kissed a Lot of Frogs: But the Prince Hasn’t Come by Kathleen Hardaway
  • If Men Are Like Buses: Then How Do I Catch One? by Michelle M. Hammond
  • In Search of the Proverbs 31 Man by Michelle M. Hammond
  • Dear God Send Me a Soul Mate by Rose Sweet
  • What’s a Girl to Do? by Janet Folger
  • The One by Ben Young & Dr. Samuel Adams
  • The Dateable Rules by Lookadoo & Morgan
  • Dateable: Are you? Are They? by Lookadoo & Morgan
  • Define the Relationship by Jeremy & Jerusha Clark

    Christian Living

  • Choices by Stacy & Paula Rinehart
  • Single & Feeling Good by Harold Ivan Smith
  • Single’s Plus by Ray Mossholder
  • Common Mistakes Singles Make by Mary S. Whelchel
  • A Single Journey: Biblical Sketches for Life on Your Own by Jim McNutt
  • Secrets of an Irresistible Woman by Michelle M. Hammond
  • Sassy, Single, & Satisfied by Michelle M. Hammond
  • If Singleness Is a Gift, What’s the Return Policy? by Hammond & Virden
  • Teach Me How to Love You by Thomas Weeks III
  • Living Whole Without a Better Half by Wendy Widder
  • Latte for One & Loving It! by Dobson/Williams
  • Men Are Like Waffles, Women Are Like Spaghetti by Bill & Pam Farrel
  • Table for One by Cameron Courtney
  • Joyfully Single in a Couples World by Harold Sala
  • Love, Sex & Lasting Relationship by Chip Ingram
  • Buyers, Renters & Freeloaders by Willard F. Harley, Jr
  • The Struggle by Steve Gerali
  • God’s Call to the Single Adult by Michael Cavanaugh
  • Playing the Tuba at Midnight by Roberta Rand
  • Sex & the Single Person by Robert G. DeMoss, Jr
  • Passion & Purity by Elizabeth Elliot
  • Quest for Love by Elizabeth Elliot
  • The Rich Single Life by Andrew Farmer
  • Single & Content by Anders/Clement/Conti/Trent
  • Single & Satisfied by Audrey Lee Sands

    Always Reliable Christian Authors

  • James Dobson
  • Bruce Larson
  • C.S. Lewis
  • Catherine Marshall
  • Lloyed John Ogilvie
  • Charles Swindoll
  • Oswald Chambers
  • Tim Hansel
  • Joni Eareckson Tada
  • Billy & Ruth Graham
  • Max Lucado
  • Patsy Clairmont
  • Barbara Johnson
  • Philip Yancy
  • John Trent
  • Gary Chapman