What is a Discipleship Group?
A Discipleship Group (DG) is a small group of people (3-4, same gender) committed to getting real about life and helping one another grow up in love for God and out in obedience to God as disciple makers.
What is a Disciple?
A person who trusts and follows Jesus in obedience.
A Discipleship Group meets and does the following:
<Look Back
Talk about life, confess sin and share vulnerably with each other, then celebrate progress together.
^Look UP
Read and discuss the Bible, talk about how it applies to your life, practice scripture memory, then pray together.
>Look Ahead
Share and pray for people in your life. Practice sharing the Gospel with one another, set goals, then go.
As you go, be intentional to commune regularly with God, worship with your church, invite people into your life, share the Gospel with them, and start new Discipleship Groups when they trust Christ.
What are the wins of a Discipleship Group?
The aim of a DG is that with the help of the Holy Spirit and one another, we would:
Grow deeper in love and obedience to God, becoming more like the one we follow - Jesus.
Multiply DGs by making disciples and starting new DGs with new followers of Jesus.
Know the places and people God has intentionally put around us, and take next steps of obedience towards sharing the Gospel and making disciples.
Why do we believe it is important to be in a discipleship group?
Fully trusting Jesus and following Him in obedience does not just casually happen. There will be times when it is easy to love God and to do what He says. But there will also be many times, perhaps even more, when trusting God and following Him in obedience is tough. We cannot do this alone. Which is why we need a few people who have access to our lives, who we are honest with, who will commit to helping us, to building us up, to walking with us in this relationship as a disciple of Jesus.
We believe a Discipleship Group offers the best environment for this to happen. We believe it offers the needed depth, intimacy, and accountability to help us press on as a disciple of Jesus. We believe when a group of people are centered around God’s Word and committed to building one another up to trust and obey Jesus, then growth as a disciple will follow!
We also believe Discipleship Groups are instrumental in fulfilling the Great Commission. Jesus tells us to make disciples who make disciples. As we invest in one another, and send each other out to do the same with others, the Kingdom of God will expand to all people in all places!