Author Review — Bargain Basement Jesus
One shareable page for Antione Anderson: the Program Overview, the Academy Home, and the Curriculum Overview / Four Movements, in order.
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Program Overview
One empowerment system with four contained applications, clear role boundaries, and an evidence-informed follow-through cycle.
Bargain Basement Jesus Academy
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.
Antione Anderson
Author, Bargain Basement Jesus
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. |
Four contained applications
Bargain Basement Jesus, Stewardship Nsites, Stewardship Nsites Connect, and Personal Nsites each keep a distinct purpose while sharing the same program shell.
- Curriculum and formation
- Financial intelligence
- Engagement and communication
- Private personal growth
Audience and roles
Participants work privately, facilitators support consented progress, and church administrators manage operations and de-identified reporting.
- Participant
- Facilitator / Coach
- Church Administrator
Privacy model
Journal entries, assessments, financial details, and sensitive disclosures remain private. Attendance and completion are operational; personal sharing is opt-in.
Continuous workflow
Assess → Learn → Connect → Practice → Coach → Review. Evidence supports wise care without ranking people or measuring spiritual worth.
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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
Movement 1 — Count and Commit
Face the call honestly and say yes — counting the cost, deciding in spite of fear, and placing yourself under trustworthy guidance.
Movement 2 — Be Reshaped
Put yourself on the Potter's wheel: surrendered habits, a renewed mind, and formation that keeps going season after season.
Movement 3 — Offer What You Have and Go Deeper
Lend your boat, empty your nets of yesterday's junk, redirect your gifts toward people, and launch into the deep at His word.
Movement 4 — Bear Fruit and Walk Together
Work the catch with partners, trust provision in the wilderness, and finish the journey walking with others, never alone.
The same practice rhythm every week — small, honest, repeatable.
- 1.Read — Scripture and the chapter
- 2.Reflect — four honest prompts
- 3.Assess — self-check and practice progress
- 4.Commit — one owned commitment
- 5.Practice — a weekly rhythm
- 6.Connect — optional sharing
- 7.Record — journal what happened
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Curriculum Overview / Four Movements
Twelve modules organized around commitment, formation, faithful action, fruit, and shared life.
Movement 1
Count and Commit
Face the call honestly and say yes — counting the cost, deciding in spite of fear, and placing yourself under trustworthy guidance.
Movement 2
Be Reshaped
Put yourself on the Potter's wheel: surrendered habits, a renewed mind, and formation that keeps going season after season.
Movement 3
Offer What You Have and Go Deeper
Lend your boat, empty your nets of yesterday's junk, redirect your gifts toward people, and launch into the deep at His word.
Movement 4
Bear Fruit and Walk Together
Work the catch with partners, trust provision in the wilderness, and finish the journey walking with others, never alone.
Section 4 of 4 · Inside a module
Module One — Count the Cost: a feel for the seven stages
Every one of the twelve modules follows the same seven-stage rhythm. Below is Module One exactly as a participant meets it — the same header, stages, and sample content, shown read-only.
Scripture focus · Luke 14:28 (KJV)
“For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?”
Jesus does not lower the price of following; He simply asks us to be honest about it before we begin.
1Read
Scripture focus and chapter reading
Reading focus — Chapter 1 of Bargain Basement Jesus
The difference between listening to Jesus from the shore and following Him in the boat.
2Reflect
Four honest reflection prompts
Four private prompts — answered in your own words
1. Where in your life are you part of the crowd rather than a committed follower?
3Assess
End-of-module self-check and practice progress
End-of-module self-check, plus practice progress from 0 to 4
Three honest statements to confirm, then a self-reported practice rating — 0 (not started) to 4 (multiplying and helping others). This measures practice progress, never spiritual worth.
4Commit
One owned commitment with a date
One owned commitment, with an owner and a date
I will honestly name the cost of following Jesus and revisit my counted-cost statement weekly for the next 30 days.
5Practice
Weekly practice and self-reported progress
Weekly practice — Sit with the ledger
Three times this week, spend ten quiet minutes rereading your ledger and praying over one line of it.
6Connect
Optional coaching share and cohort connection
Optional coaching share — never automatic
You choose whether your facilitator or coach sees your progress on this module. Journal entries are never included, and nothing reaches the wider Nsites applications without your explicit consent.
7Record
Journal what happened
A private journal entry
“What did you notice? What did it cost? What are you grateful for?” — kept in your private journal by default.
Reflections, the journal, and practice notes stay private by default. Sharing is opt-in and item-by-item.