JesusX30 Challenge - Welcome to the 30-day Discipleship Challenge

JesusX30 Challenge—Welcome to the Challenge!

 

1. What Is the JesusX30 Challenge?

•      30 Days. 1 Messiah. 1 Daily Encounter. 1 Life Transformed.

•      A daily discipleship journey through the life and mission of Jesus, built around key “scenes” in his story.

•      Each day: short video + podcast + study handout.

 

2. Where This Comes From

•      Based on my book trilogy Jesus: The Strategic Life and Mission of the Messiah and His Movement (3 Volumes, Hekhal Publishing Co., 2025).

•      The Challenge follows the same “scene-by-scene” structure: historical, strategic, exegetical, devotional.

•      Designed to bring together scholarship + discipleship in a way that’s both accessible and transformational.

 

You can buy or borrow the trilogy at:

•      Hekhal Publishing Co. (look for free samples of each book as well)

o   Jesus, vol. 1

o   Jesus, vol. 2

o   Jesus, vol. 3

•      Amazon (print or ebook)

•      Barnes & Noble (print or ebook)

•      Hoopla (borrow)

•      Many more booksellers worldwide!

 

3. What to Expect Each Day

•      Video & Podcast: 15–25 minutes walking through a specific scene from Jesus’ life.

•      Handout/Notes: outlines, key texts, and devotional questions.

•      Big Picture: how Jesus’ campaign unfolds and why it still matters.

 

4. How to Engage Fully

•      Watch/listen daily.

•      Use the handouts for reflection or group study.

•      Journal responses to the Devotional Questions.

•      Share your journey using #JesusX30Challenge.

•      Invite a friend to join—discipleship is meant to spread.

 

5. The Invitation

•      Jesus’ life was strategic, subversive, revolutionary—and it still calls us to live differently today.

•      This is more than content. It’s a call to follow.

•      Lekh ulmad—Go and learn.

 

👉 Links:

• YouTube @TysonPutthoff

• Podcast What the Bible Actually Says

• Socials @TysonPutthoff

Episode Transcript

(00:09):
What's up everybody? I'm Tyson put off and I want to
welcome you to the Jesus X30 challenge, a 30 day discipleship
challenge. I want to start with a question.
If we say we want to be like Jesus, what do we mean by this?
And if we really want to be likehim, how do we know what he's
actually like and not just what we've heard about him?

(00:31):
Not just the verses people quote.
The ones we hang on our walls inartwork, The ones we hear
inserted sort of haphazardly in a conversation with a friend or
a sermon. The ones we hear politicians
quote to support their agendas? Not that.
I mean, have we actually taken the time to walk with Jesus as
he's portrayed in the Gospels tosee how he lived, to see what he

(00:54):
said, to see how he handled power, how he dealt with fear
and conflict and betrayal and hope and just everyday
situations that we face too? Because here's what I've
noticed, a lot of people want tobe Christ like, to be like
Jesus, which is great. It's the goal of the Jesus
followers life, right? But when we go looking for what

(01:16):
that actually means, we often skip over Jesus himself.
We reach for Paul or the Proverbs or some scattered list
of Christian virtues or traditional values.
And while that's not necessarilywrong, it's a little like trying
to understand a person by reading their mail instead of
actually sitting down with them over coffee.

(01:37):
In other words, exploring Paul'sletters and the other writings
of the New Testament or scrolling through the poetic or
historical books of the Old Testament.
It's it's incredibly valuable. But the foundation of our
portrait of Jesus should be rooted in the books in which God
records and describes the life and messianic campaign of Jesus
himself. So what I'd like to do together

(02:00):
is just that. I want to journey through the
life of the historical person ofJesus as portrayed in the
Gospels, and in essence, meet Jesus again for the first time.
I want to set aside our denominational traditions about
Jesus. I want to cut through the media
noise about Jesus and try to identify and correct assumptions

(02:20):
and portraits and ideas that youand I personally hold about
Jesus. And through all of this,
simplify our journey and our relationship with Jesus by
walking his story with him and encountering him in fresh ways
all over again. That's what the Jesus X 3030 Day
Discipleship Challenge is all about.

(02:41):
South. For the next 30 days, we're
going to walk through the Gospels, 1 scene at a time.
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The books that show us Jesus in
action, not just as a stained glass figure, not as a floaty
spiritual idea, but as a real person who lived in a real place
at a real time in history. The real Jesus who had calloused

(03:03):
feet and dirt under his fingernails.
He was fully divine, yet fully human.
He was tired. He was brilliant.
He was fierce. He was tender, compassionate,
strategic, fearful, and he was fearless when it mattered.
This is Jesus with a backbone. This is Jesus who weeps, Jesus
who picks, fights with the powerful, and who lifts up

(03:24):
people who've been stepped on their whole lives.
This is Jesus who doesn't reallyfit cleanly into our categories,
political, theological, social, or otherwise.
This is Jesus who knew exactly what he was doing and did it
anyway, all the way to the cross.
So here's what we're going to do.
We're going to cover 30 moments in his life, what I call scenes

(03:47):
in the books that we're following.
Each one will help us build a clearer, fuller portrait of who
Jesus really was, what he cared about, how he calls us to live.
We're going to pay attention to the historical context, the
spiritual meanings, and what allof this means for your life
right now, right here in whatever season you're in.

(04:07):
Each day's episodes going to take 10 to 20 minutes at the
most. You can do it with the group.
You can do this on your own. You watch it over coffee, on a
walk. It's part of your morning quiet
time. Whatever works best for you, but
don't binge it all at once. This isn't a show to stream,
it's a walk to take. One day, one scene, one step at

(04:27):
a time. I'm going to be following the
structure laid out in my books, Jesus, the Strategic life and
mission of the Messiah, and his movement.
All three volumes, volumes 1-2 and three, are out now.
If you've got your own copies, great.
If not, grab a copy. They're going to give you all of
the scaffolding. We're drawing from all of the
research that I've put into thisfor the last 20 plus years and

(04:51):
all the research that shines light on the gospels and takes
takes you deeper into the world and life of Jesus than you could
ever imagine. But I don't want you to worry.
You don't need to read ahead or prep anything.
Just show up each day ready to see Jesus in a new light.
A fair warning, this probably isn't the Jesus you grew up
with, or that many of us are entirely comfortable with,

(05:13):
including me. It's not the Jesus with perfect
blonde hair and white robes and blue eyes and who kind of floats
around above the mess of the world.
This Jesus gets dusty. He gets angry.
He gets tired. He overturns stuff, literally
and figuratively. He invites sinners to dinner and
tells the religious elite to take a hard look at their heart.

(05:34):
He doesn't fit in. He doesn't play nice with power.
And maybe most shockingly, at least it has been for me, this
is a Jesus who doesn't just ask for our belief in Him.
He asks for our life. He asks us to follow in.
So if you're ready to reset the way you see Jesus, to go deeper,

(05:54):
to get challenged, to finally walk with him in a way that
brings him into real life and out of this sort of mythical,
ethereal, human but not quite relatable human sphere, and see
him and know him and feel him ina way you've never known him
before, this 30 day discipleshipjourney is for you.
Stick around. Be ready to meet Jesus again for

(06:16):
the first time. Lego mod.
Go and learn. Come back for scene one of the
Jesus X30 Challenge.