Conversion can happen in a moment. The next step takes a lifetime. This next step is the challenge of growing into a fruitful and effective disciple of Jesus Christ. Untold thousands have experienced new life in Jesus Christ through the ministry of Fr. John Bertolucci. Now America's best-known Catholic evangelist shares what he has learned about the challenges and rewards of discipleship. He discusses prayer, scripture reading and study, obedience, service, and other "disciplines" of a disciple's life. But the most important lessons of discipleship involve learning to apply the basic truths of the gospel. One lesson is that discipleship is above all a relationship with a person. Another is that disciples do not do things for God, but wait for God to work and then open themselves to his Holy Spirit. "We Christians should not let history happen to us," he writes. "We should happen to history." The world is different because Jesus came. Now our homes, offices, and neighborhoods will be different because we have become his disciples.