Bargain Basement Jesus Academy

Twelve modules in four movements. Every module follows the same flow: Read → Reflect → Assess → Commit → Practice → Connect → Record.

Antione Anderson

Author, Bargain Basement Jesus

A twelve-module journey into the cost — and the reward — of following Jesus.

The Bargain Basement Jesus Academy is the formation heart of the program. Built on Antione Anderson's book "Bargain Basement Jesus: The Cost of Following," it walks participants through the Gospel story of the first disciples — ordinary people with boats, nets, and doubts whom Jesus called into the deep. Its purpose is simple: help people count the cost of following Jesus, decide honestly, and learn to offer what little they have so He can do far more with it than they could.

Its intent is pastoral, not transactional. This is not a financial program with verses attached — it is a discipleship curriculum that treats money, work, ambition, and relationships as the everyday places where surrender, renewal, and obedience are either formed or avoided. Every module keeps the tone candid and hopeful: Jesus never asked anyone to pretend the bargain bin was full of treasure; He asked them to leave the pile and follow Him.

Twelve modules in four movements: Count and Commit (1–3), Be Reshaped (4–5), Offer What You Have and Go Deeper (6–9), and Bear Fruit and Walk Together (10–12).

Each module moves through the same seven stages — Read, Reflect, Assess, Commit, Practice, Connect, Record — so formation becomes a weekly rhythm rather than a one-time decision.

Along the way participants keep a private journal, make dated commitments, track practice progress (never spiritual worth), and finish with a 90-day plan reviewed with trusted supporters.

What the Academy shapes, the three Nsites applications carry: what begins as private formation becomes community life, church intelligence, and personal growth.

How the four applications connect

Formation that becomes stewardship, community, and personal empowerment.

Bargain Basement Jesus is the formation engine. Its twelve modules shape how people follow Jesus; the three Nsites applications give that formation somewhere practical to land — in the church's financial picture, in its community life, and in each person's own household.

Stewardship Nsites

Financial reporting and church intelligence

Gives leaders a clear, de-identified view of the church's financial health and generosity trends. As participants practice surrender, renewal, and offering what they have, leaders see the aggregate effect over time — never individual giving or rankings.

Stewardship Nsites Connect

Networking and community engagement

Turns private commitments into shared life. Participants choose which commitments, practices, or support requests to share; Connect links them to mentors, service teams, cohort events, and follow-up care.

Personal Nsites

Individual financial enhancement and empowerment

The private space where each person applies the course to their own life — budgeting and money beliefs, goals, the 90-day plan, journaling, and coaching they invite. Personal growth here feeds everything else, on the participant's terms.

Learn in the Academy → apply privately in Personal Nsites → share deliberately through Connect → leaders see de-identified patterns in Stewardship Nsites → coaching and the next module begin the loop again.

How each module connects to the Nsites applications

Personal work stays private by default; Connect items are shared only by participant choice; Stewardship Nsites sees de-identified patterns only.

Module	Stewardship Nsites	Stewardship Nsites Connect	Personal Nsites
1. Count the Cost	Baseline of commitment and participation across the cohort.	Share a chosen allegiance commitment with a trusted group.	Honest ledger of what following costs — time, money, priorities.
2. Decision to Follow a Faithful God	Tracks obedient next steps taken (aggregate).	Find encouragement to act despite fear.	Name fear and self-disqualification; set one obedient step.
3. Submission	Signals how many received trusted guidance.	Request guidance and be matched with a wise voice.	Map blind spots and a trusted circle privately.
4. Reshaping	Formation practice frequency, including recovery from financial hardship.	Invite accountability for a habit being reshaped.	Name habits, pride, or hardship — including money pressure — to surrender.
5. Transforming My Mind	Renewal rhythms and healthier money beliefs over time.	Join a prayer or Scripture rhythm with others.	Rewrite money beliefs: money as a tool, not security; set a spending plan.
6. Lending Your Boat	Resources, gifts, and service offered to the church.	Offer your 'boat' — skills or platform — to a team or neighbor.	Inventory your boat and bait: work, gifts, income, and influence.
7. Empty Net	Community recovery steps after disappointment or loss.	Recover in community instead of in isolation.	Examine the facts of an empty net, including financial setbacks.
8. Catching Men	People-focused steps and vocational influence (aggregate).	Plan respectful witness within your real network.	Redirect gifts and career influence toward people and the Kingdom.
9. Going Out Into the Deep	Follow-through on deep-water commitments.	Ask for support as you step beyond past failure.	Write a 'nevertheless' statement and a courageous goal.
10. Catching Great Number of Fish	Partner capacity and fruitful ministry growth.	Build partners; share capacity needs honestly.	Plan the capacity — time, money, people — to handle a great catch.
11. Following Where Jesus Is Leading	Support accepted during wilderness seasons.	Make a truthful support request and receive help.	Name real need, practical responsibility, and provision.
12. Not Walking Alone	Healthy mentoring and support rhythms started.	Join or start a mentoring relationship with boundaries.	Define who walks with you and the boundaries that protect you.