The following list of books is recommended for basic Discipleship by any Serious Religious Christian.

Some of the books recommended are related to other disciplines but are given here to show what a basic personal library might include. This is not an exhaustive list but does begin to give a disciple a good foundation of materials. For those who are computer literate, there are several very good programs that provide this basic library and much more a click of a mouse. There really is not excuse for ignorance of God’s word among Christians. Only our laziness or apathy keeps us from a foundational knowledge of the word.

Starter Kit
New American Standard Bible
NASB Exhaustive Concordance
Bible Handbook
Moody Handbook of Theology

Basic Library
New American Standard Bible
NASB Exhaustive Concordance
Bible Handbook
Moody Handbook of Theology
New King James Bible
Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance
(NKJV)
Pictorial Bible Dictionary
Systematic Theology

Extended Basic Library (Include Basic Library)
Thayer’s Greek Lexicon (with Strong’s numbers)
Brown Driver Brigg’s Hebrew Lexicon (with Strong’s numbers)
Schaff’s History of the Christian Church (8 vols)
Zondervan’s Pictoral Bible Encyclopedia (5 vols)
Introduction to Judaism (any basic intro will work)
Complete Book of Jewish Observance or Jewish Home Advisor
The Expositor’s Bible Commentary (10 vols)

Advanced Library ( Include Basic and Extended Basic Library)
Multi-Translation Comparative Text Bible
Interlinear Hebrew – English Tenach and Interlinear (Greek – English) New
Testament
Introduction to N.T. Greek grammar and Introduction to Basic Hebrew
Jewish Siddur (Prayer Book) and Messianic Jewish Siddur and Book of Common
Prayer
Hymnal (Your Denomination)
Chumash (Torah with Rabbinic Commentary – Hebrew and English)
Mishnah (in English)
Schaff’s Creeds of the Christian Church (3 vols) and a specific Church History
based on your own Denomination
Additional Systematic Theology sets
Additional Commentaries or sets (as needed)
Subject texts (as needed)