Disciplemaking Stories
We love celebrating stories of people in our church family making disciples! Here are some stories to celebrate and stir your faith!
Investing in Fathers
Alongside his roles as husband, father, and counselor, Bill serves as a Section Leader for our Young Families Lifegroups. In that role, he spends time meeting with, mentoring and coaching young fathers who are leading Lifegroups. Here's what those guys said about Bill: His availability and willingness to meet consistently created a big impact in their lives and their groups!
Making Disciples in Youth Ministry
In addition to his job as a coach and teacher, Kyle faithfully lead a high school guys’ Lifegroup. He is intentional to show up every Sunday night to invest in the members of the group and point them to Jesus. He also builds relationship with guys from his group throughout the week and is passionate about seeing them take ownership of their faith and surrender every area of their lives to God.
Here's what one of the guys said about Kyle: "Kyle was an outstanding mentor for me this year. He really helped me in my times of struggle or conflict and celebrated me in my times of victory and triumph. He was one of the people who prayed over my Bible study that was just starting up and it’s really helped me a lot. I’ll always remember how well he loved our core group and can’t thank him enough!"
Planning the Next Phase of Discipleship
Preview: This discipleship lesson is designed to help you plan your next season of discipleship whether you are in peer to peer discipleship or leading a group.
Going Deeper in Looking Up:
Here are some good questions and curated activities to building on the foundations that you laid in looking up and cultivating a lifestyle of devotion and friendship with Jesus:
Good Questions:
How are you doing in your devotional life?
What has the Lord been speaking to you, and how are you responding?
How are you abiding in Jesus throughout the day?
How can I/we spur you on in this area of discipleship?
Curated Activities:
Pick a book of the Bible to study as a group.
Practice through the “Alone With God” workbook and try a new tool from it each week.
Read Live Dead Joy or God is My Hiding Place devotional together.
Pray together in the House of Prayer
Practice through Tending Your Heart curriculum together.
Read Brother Lawrence’s book “Practicing the Presence of God” together and talk about abiding with God throughout the day.
Read Richard Foster’s “Celebration of Discipline” together and practice incorporating different spiritual disciplines in your life to help you abide in Christ.
Going Deeper in Looking In:
Here are some good questions and curated activities to building on the foundations that you laid in looking in and cultivating a lifestyle of holiness and love:
Good Questions:
Is there any sin in your life that you need to confess and repent of?
What burden, need, challenges or big decision can I pray with you about?
How can we spur you on in holiness and love?
Curated Activities:
Use John Wesley’s list of 22 accountability questions as a primer to create your own accountability questions as a group.
Memorize the Sermon on the Mount and/or Galatians 5
Read Bitter Free by Mark DeJesus together
Do Freedom Fight together.
Going Deeper in Looking Out:
Here are some good questions and curated activities to building on the foundations that you laid in looking in and cultivating a Great Commission lifestyle:
Good Questions:
How are you being salt and light in your sphere of influence?
Who are you discipling (investing in), and how can I help you with that? Who are they investing in?
Who are you reaching out to that does not know Jesus, and how can I help you?
Curated Activities:
Do Roles & Goals together
Read Business Revival by Brandon Haire together
Read Passion and Purpose by Jimmy Seibert together
Serve in a disciple-making ministry team together.
Spend time praying for the disciple-making efforts of the group members.
Spend time praying by name for those who don’t know Jesus.
Set a goal as a group for sharing your faith.
Go on a mission trip together or serve in an evangelistic ministry together.
Start a Lifegroup or Discipleship group together