“Interwoven Discipleship is a theologically robust, Scripturally grounded, and deeply pastoral account of discipleship rooted in the life of the Triune God rather than the mechanical habits of individualistic, productivity-oriented American Christianity. Daye challenged me, moved me, and made me grateful that the church has wise and experienced teachers spurring believers on towards deeper love and goodness in community.”
~Nijay K. Gupta, Julius R. Mantey Professor of New Testament, Northern Seminary, author of Tell Her Story and Strange Religion
“Interwoven Discipleship is a timely and deeply needed invitation to recover the heart of Christian formation: life with the triune God that transforms how we love, belong, and embody the gospel together. Liz Daye beautifully reminds us that discipleship is not merely the transfer of information or the mastery of spiritual practices, but a Spirit-formed journey into communion with God and one another. Rooted in Scripture, this book challenges the individualism of our age and calls the church back to a vision of mutuality, hospitality, and shared flourishing. With theological depth, pastoral wisdom, and compassionate clarity, Daye offers a compelling picture of discipleship that reflects the self-giving love of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This is an important resource for anyone longing to see followers of Jesus formed not only in what they believe, but in how they live, love, and participate in God’s renewing work in the world.”
~Ingrid Faro, Ph.D., Professor of Old Testament at Northern Seminary, author of Redeeming Eden
“In Interwoven Discipleship, Liz Daye offers more than a fresh vision for Christian community—she offers a lifeline for weary believers and a summons to the church. With courage, clarity, and deep pastoral compassion, Daye anchors discipleship in the shared life of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, exposing how power-hoarding, individualistic faith deforms us and leaves people behind. This book will enlarge your imagination for belonging, reframe what faithfulness looks like, and move you from abstract ideas to embodied practice. Read it with your people. Let it re-order what you love. Then take the next faithful step: make room, share power, pursue shalom, and become the kind of church that looks like God’s love in the world.
~Dr. Derwin L. Gray
Co-founder & Lead Pastor Transformation Church, Author of: It's Time To Heal: Four God-given Steps To Restore What Life Shattered
“At a time when many are wrestling with the ideas about God they inherited, Liz Daye paints a stunningly beautiful portrait of the Triune God and the implications for community life. It takes a doctrine that many find abstract and helps translate it into concrete actions for the Church without removing mystery and wonder. This book will give you new vocabulary to speak about your faith, a proper orientation to the love of God, and a heart to make space for those who need it most.”
~Kate Boyd; Founder of the Remembered Table, Bible teacher, and Author of An Untidy Faith: Journeying Back to the Joy of Following Jesus
“Elizabeth Daye’s work is a timely and valuable contribution in several ways. Her work articulates a creative, faithful understanding of discipleship that is the product of reflective synthesis. Liz demonstrates a depth of understanding in theology and brings her academic study into conversation with her personal story and minisry experiences in a way that is imaginative, meaningful, and practical. She adeptly discusses complex aspects of systematic and historical theology in a way that is widely accessible. This book is a work of theological imagination that employs the concept of Trinitarian perichoresis as the basis for an understanding of discipleship as a practice that is formational, inviting, healing, and rooted in the love Jesus embodied. Readers will find her work at once deep, comprehensible, and relatable, which is an aspiration of theological writing that is difficult to achieve. I’m excited for Liz’s book to spur the church toward discipleship that impacts our being, belonging, and becoming.
~Young-Sam Won, PhD., professor At dallas theological seminary, author of Remembering the Covenants in Song: An Intertextual Study of the Abrahamic and Mosaic Covenants in Psalm 10
“It is my firm conviction that theology is the root of behavior. In other words, what we believe about God determines how we live our lives. Daye provides a beautiful exposition of that conviction in this erudite, expansive, and practical book. Interwoven Discipleship provides insights all the way from ancient theology to modern controversy from a woman who has the fire of a prophet and the compassion of a chaplain. I’m grateful for the way this book sharpens my thinking as a theologian, and even more grateful for how this book will refine my discipling as a pastor.”
~Amy Peeler Kenneth T. Wessner Chair of Biblical Studies, Wheaton College, Associate Rector, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
“Interwoven Discipleship is arguably one of the best books on Christian Discipleship I’ve come across in recent years. What makes this book a masterpiece is Liz Daye’s unique ability to simplify complex global church theology for everyday Christians; theology that absolutely needs to be retrieved for the healing and wholeness of the western church today. Every church that is serious about healthy, trinitarian Christian discipleship should create holy spaces of wrestling to read and process the deep (but accessible) wisdom of this book!”
~ Fr. Joash P. Thomas; Public Theologian & Author of The Justice of Jesus
“As a theologian and pediatric chaplain, I’m convinced that theology must sustain suffering people, cultivate compassion, and help us love our neighbors well. Interwoven Discipleship does exactly that. With remarkable warmth and theological depth, Liz Daye draws from Scripture, church history, the creeds, robust theological scholarship, and her own lived experience to paint a compelling vision of the triune God whose love overflows into justice, belonging, and shared flourishing. Her vision of discipleship is expansive, hopeful, and deeply needed. In a fractured world desperate for belonging and at a time when the church is wrestling to embody the love it proclaims, this book is both a timely invitation and a gift. I believe Interwoven Discipleship should be required reading for Christians longing to recover a faith rooted in love, mutuality, and the life of the triune God.”
~Cassandra Speer, M.A. in Biblical and Theological Studies, pediatric chaplain, bestselling author, and Vice President of Her True Worth
“Liz Daye has performed a small miracle: She has written a treatment of the most mysterious of Christian doctrines— the Trinity— that is somehow both accessible and practical. Pastors and seminarians will appreciate her clear prose, relatable examples, and precise theology, but they will rejoice as Liz shows us how our relational God directly informs the embodied like of the church community. I look forward to recommending this book and using it in the classroom. ”