Ministry Skills Pod

Help your disciples grow in skills that will help them minister to the people around them!

Whether you are called to vocational ministry or not, we are all called to be minister of reconciliation to a lost and broken world. Take the next few weeks to teach your disciples what it means to live the life of ministry that God has called them to.

In the buttons below you will find videos, articles, podcasts and helpful questions that will help your disciples become mature in each topic. Take your time to read through the materials yourself so that you can be as helpful as you can.

WORSHIP

Prayer Requests/Time in Prayer 

  • How can we pray for you?  
  • During this time, don’t focus on the prayer needs of others in your life, we want to pray for you.

Accountability 

  • What is one thing that you read from scripture that you believe the Lord is trying to teach you? What are you going to do about it?
  • What is one thing that you are praying that the Lord would change in your life this week? How can you partner with God in making this happen?
  • What are some takeaways from implementing the new practices from last week’s DG session?
  • Who are you praying for and are planning to show hospitality towards in your life who has not yet put their faith in Jesus?

Content Overview 

Send these resources to your disciples: 

Model and Practice 

Model:  

  • Show them an example of how you integrate worship in your weekly rhythms outside of church 
  • Walk them through a worshipful experience that you regularly partake in 
  • Invite them into a time of worship within the next week 

Practice: 

  • Have them write out examples of worship that is already in their regular rhythms 
  • Have them write down new ways that they are willing to worship the Lord during their weeks 
  • Spend some time worshipping the Lord before you end your session: this may be through music, money, or service 

Action Steps and Prayer 

  • Have everybody share a point in their week before the next session that they plan on integrating worship. Challenge weak goals and push your disciples to take the integration of worship seriously 
  • Send updates to each other via text about how your times of worship have gone and the results of your times of worship 
DISCIPLE-MAKING

Prayer Requests/Time in Prayer 

  • How can we pray for you?  
  • During this time, don’t focus on the prayer needs of others in your life, we want to pray for you. 

Accountability 

  • What is one thing that you read from scripture that you believe the Lord is trying to teach you? What are you going to do about it?
  • What is one thing that you are praying that the Lord would change in your life this week? How can you partner with God in making this happen?
  • What are some takeaways from implementing the new practices from last week’s DG session?
  • Who are you praying for and are planning to show hospitality towards in your life who has not yet put their faith in Jesus?

Content Overview 

Send these resources to your disciples: 

Model and Practice 

Model: 

  • Teach your disciples how to share the Gospel by taking them through the Discipleship Square. Have one person role-play as a non-believer and pretend that you are sharing the Gospel with them. 
  • Write out your brick wall. Show them who mentors you, who you do life with, who you pour into, and where there are deficiencies in your wall. 

Practice:

  • Have them identify potential disciples in their lives. Ask them to write down their names and what next steps need to be taken in order to disciple them 
  • Ask them to develop a plan to take somebody through the Discipleship Square. After they have taken some time to develop that plan, have them present the plan to the group 

Action Steps and Prayer 

  • During the time before the next session, identify an area that you would like to model to your disciples by using the discipleship square 
  • Make them aware of this plan and coordinate when a good time would be to meet up and practice making disciples through modeling and practicing  
EVANGELISM

Prayer Requests/Time in Prayer 

  • How can we pray for you?  
  • During this time, don’t focus on the prayer needs of others in your life, we want to pray for you. 

Accountability 

  • What is one thing that you read from scripture that you believe the Lord is trying to teach you? What are you going to do about it?
  • What is one thing that you are praying that the Lord would change in your life this week? How can you partner with God in making this happen?
  • What are some takeaways from implementing the new practices from last week’s DG session?
  • Who are you praying for and are planning to show hospitality towards in your life who has not yet put their faith in Jesus?

Content Overview

Send these resources to your disciples:

Model and Practice 

Model: 

  • Role-play a scenario where you are going through the missional living wheel with someone you just met. Have someone in the group pretend to be a non-believer and walk through 
  • Invite your disciples into a time where you are planning on moving through the missional living wheel with someone. Pre-brief with them on how you are praying for the conversation to go and debrief with them afterwards on how it went 
  • Share an example of how you have walked through the missional living wheel with someone in the past 

Practice: 

  • Swap up the role play scenario. Now have your disciples go through the missional living wheel with you as you pretend to be a non-believer 
  • Have them write down different questions for each portion of the missional living wheel that they would be comfortable asking somebody that they are getting to know 
  • Have them identify 1-3 people in their lives that they need to transition from one slice of the MLW to the other 

Action Steps and Prayer 

  • Have everybody write down who everybody is going to guide through the missional living wheel before the next session 
  • Make a plan to text your people throughout the week to make sure this is getting done 
SERVING

Prayer Requests/Time in Prayer 

  • How can we pray for you?  
  • During this time, don’t focus on the prayer needs of others in your life, we want to pray for you. 

Accountability 

  • What is one thing that you read from scripture that you believe the Lord is trying to teach you? What are you going to do about it?
  • What is one thing that you are praying that the Lord would change in your life this week? How can you partner with God in making this happen?
  • What are some takeaways from implementing the new practices from last week’s DG session?
  • Who are you praying for and are planning to show hospitality towards in your life who has not yet put their faith in Jesus?

Content Overview 

Send these resources to your disciples:

Model and Practice 

Model: 

  • Invite them to serve with you in whatever area you volunteer to serve at on Sundays 
  • Give examples in your life of what it means for you to serve 
  • Take some time to look through this document during the session and pick an area where you want to volunteer within the next month. Invite your disciples to come with you CG Service List (English).pdf 

Practice: 

  • Ask your disciples to write down their available time, their talents, and treasures that the Lord has given them. Then ask them to then write down how they can serve others with their time, talents, and treasures 
  • Have your disciples pick out one place to serve that is within the church and one place to serve in the community by exploring the CG Service List linked above. Hold them accountable to actually serve in those places within the next month. 

Action Steps and Prayer 

  • Write down where everybody is committing to serve within the next month 
  • Contact your campus pastor to learn about areas of need that your group could serve in 
COMMUNITY

Prayer Requests/Time in Prayer 

  • How can we pray for you?  
  • During this time, don’t focus on the prayer needs of others in your life, we want to pray for you. 

Accountability 

  • What is one thing that you read from scripture that you believe the Lord is trying to teach you? What are you going to do about it?
  • What is one thing that you are praying that the Lord would change in your life this week? How can you partner with God in making this happen?
  • What are some takeaways from implementing the new practices from last week’s DG session?
  • Who are you praying for and are planning to show hospitality towards in your life who has not yet put their faith in Jesus?

Content Overview 

Send these resources to your disciples:

Model and Practice 

Model: 

  • Share with your disciples your rhythms of getting into Christ-centered community. Make sure to highlight the sacrifices you have made in your personal life to prioritize community 
  • If you lead a CG, invite them to be with you as you prep for it. Show them how you value connection over running a program 
  • If they don’t attend you community group, invite your disciples to your CG this week so you can show them what intentional fellowship looks like 

Practice: 

  • Have them explore the CG page on the Fielder website and find a Community Group to join if they are not already in one 
  • Partner up everybody in your D-Group and task them to hang out outside of a Fielder event one time before your next DG session 
  • Task them to call somebody that they know from church that they have not connected with yet and invite them to their home for coffee or a meal 

 

Action Steps and Prayer 

  • Before they leave, make sure they tell you when they are getting together with each other. Hold each other accountable to that by texting each other before your next session. 
  • Have them show you in their calendars when they are going to invite people into their lives 
SHEPHERDING

Shepherding 

Prayer Requests/Time in Prayer 

  • How can we pray for you?  
  • During this time, don’t focus on the prayer needs of others in your life, we want to pray for you. 

Accountability 

  • What is one thing that you read from scripture that you believe the Lord is trying to teach you? What are you going to do about it?
  • What is one thing that you are praying that the Lord would change in your life this week? How can you partner with God in making this happen?
  • What are some takeaways from implementing the new practices from last week’s DG session?
  • Who are you praying for and are planning to show hospitality towards in your life who has not yet put their faith in Jesus?

Content Overview 

Send these resources to your disciples:

Model and Practice 

  • Model
    • Open up about a time that you were shepherded really well. Share how that affected you in the short-term and the long-term.
    • Teach the 3 aspects of being a shepherd: a shepherd knows their sheep’s story, they know how to pray for their sheep, and they know their sheep’s next steps.
    • Show them how you have done all of those things for them over the past couple of months. Apologize for the ways that you have fallen short as a shepherd and ask for forgiveness.
    • Spend time praying over those in your D-Group. Lay hands on them and pray specific prayers over them.
    • Share with your disciples what you believe their next steps are in their discipleship journey. Spend time in prayer over this.
  • Practice
    • Have your disciples take some time to write down the names of people in their lives who they feel that God has called them to shepherd. Try to make it a balance of family members, friends, and fellow church members.
    • Help your disciples make action plans of how they are going to learn their people’s stories, prayer needs, and next steps in discipleship.
    • Take some time for your disciples to pray for those that they feel called to shepherd. After that time of prayer, come back together and have each person share how they feel the Lord is leading them towards shepherding those they feel called to.
    • Help your disciples make plans to contact those that they feel led to shepherd in order to set up a time to get together. Have them contact one person before they leave.

Action Steps and Prayer 

  • Help your disciples get in contact with the discipleship team at Fielder to help them set up a Discipling Community where they can shepherd others.
  • Reach out to the names of people you wrote down and meet with all of them over the next 2 weeks.
  • Help your disciples sign up for shepherd training, there should be one every quarter at Fielder.