Great Gifts to Give Your D-Group
As the holiday season arrives and you get ready to kick off the new year, it’s a great time to give your D-Groups gifts. Below is a list of a few of our favorite gifts that we give our D-Groups. These gifts show both your appreciation and will equip them to make...
How to Stay Accountable with Your Discipleship Group
Your discipleship group has a couple of meetings under its belt at this point, which means that you’re well on your way to building the kind of rapport with one another that will accelerate your spiritual development. This leads us to one of the most important parts...
How to Lead Your Discipleship Group: Week Two
With introductions out of the way, you are now a full week into your discipleship journey with your group. But even now, in the second week, you’re already getting to the meat. You have already learned how to start your group, but now let’s figure out how to lead your...
How to Begin Your Discipleship Group
How to Begin Your Discipleship Group You’ve found three or four other people who have agreed to go on a discipleship journey with you. You’ve set up your first meeting together, perhaps in a coffee shop or a cafe, and you’re fired up to begin. But you might have a...
Why Your Discipleship Group Needs a Starter Guide
Why Your Discipleship Group Needs a Starter Guide When one of my friends was born, his grandparents drove from Tennessee to Indiana to be there for his birth. At least that was the plan. It wasn’t long before they realized they’d made a mistake: they were supposed to...
Small Group vs. Discipleship Group: Why You Need Both
Life changes happen best while in a relationship. It is how we were built – we were made to be in community with one another. For those of us looking to implement discipleship in our contexts, there are two types of groups we can use in order to make the broader goal...
How to Lead a Healthy Discipleship Group, Part 2
How to Lead a Healthy Discipleship Group, Part 2 One of our favorite ways to relax and refresh is to load up our bird dog, Roux, and go hunting. As anybody who spends any time outdoors will tell you, it’s important to be able to identify the foliage around you. All...
How To Lead a Healthy Discipleship Group, Part 1
How To Lead a Healthy Discipleship Group If we come in from playing a round of golf, the winner would depend on which scorecard we use. For instance, if we were scoring golf like we would score bowling, whichever of us had the highest stroke count would walk away the...
What Is a Discipleship Group?
The Discipleship Group is one of the most powerful tools the Church has today to help us become the believers Jesus commissioned us to be. That’s a pretty big statement. Give us a second to explain. If we asked you to tell us the first thing that comes to mind...
Know Your Role in Family Discipleship
Generations of undiscipled children are now parents who don’t know how to disciple their children. And it’s not even their fault. It’s not your fault. Church leaders spent the last half century cultivating dynamic next gen ministry. We built a church paradigm that...
Great Leaders Empower Others
Empowerment is the heartbeat of ministry. Do you empower others? Ephesians 4:11-12 states this plainly when Paul tells us to “equip the saints for the work of ministry.” Practically speaking, you can’t do all the work of ministry by yourself. In fact, if you don’t...
Managing Time for Maximum Impact
Managing Time for Maximum Impact Time management is an invaluable skill no matter what line of work you find yourself in. Unfortunately, controlling one’s calendar is not something those of us in ministry are typically known for. Too often it can feel like our...