Leader of Self to Leader of Followers

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Multiplying Disciple D-Group Curriculum Sessions

In the drop-down section below, you will find the curriculum and meeting flow for each D-Group session for Multiplying Disciple Part 1: Leader of Self to Leader of Followers. The purpose of this curriculum is to help your disciples practice what it would look like to take their faith and use it to pour into others.

Engage a Missional Focus

Connect 

  • How has your week been?
  • How can we pray for you?

Accountability 

From your personal time with the Lord…

  • What is God saying to you?
    • Through scripture
    • Through your time in prayer
    • Through your time with your family/in community
  • What are you going to do about it?
  • How can we help?

From the preparation for this session…

  • What are you most hoping that God does in you and through you during your time in this group?
  • Out of all the sessions in this group, which do you think will be the most helpful for you?
  • Do you already have people in mind that you would like to disciple at some point?

Intentional Learning 

Main Idea

  • Before you step into leading those that God has called you to, you first have to find them. Engaging a missional focus will help you understand who God is calling you to and how to reach them.

Learning Materials

Discussion 

  • What stood out about the chapter that you read and the video that you watched?
  • Is there anything that doesn’t make sense after going through the learning materials?
  • How have you seen the concept of Tribes play out in your real life?
  • How can you use what you’ve learned from the reading this chapter on Tribes to reach those around you?
  • What are examples of people of peace that exist in the Bible?
  • What are examples of people of peace in your own personal past?
  • How do you see identifying people of peace affecting the way that you personally do ministry?

Practice

  • Write out the different “tribes” that you can think of in your life. Think through the tribes in your work/school, your neighborhood, your city, etc. Create a masterlist and share it with your group.
  • Make a list of people of peace in your missional focus based on the criteria in Jo Saxton’s teachings.
  • Share with your group a little bit about the people of peace that you identified. What makes them people of peace?

Plan

  • Continue to build upon your masterlist throughout the week. Use the chapter that you have read to think through different tribes and their values. Be prepared to share with your group in your next meeting.
  • Make a plan to meet with one of the people of peace in the missional focus that you are reaching. Take some time to connect with them, get to know them, and make plans to get connected to the people that they are connected to.

Guided Prayer 

  • Pray for…
    • The different tribes that your group members have identified in their lives. 
      • That God would give each of you wisdom in how to reach the tribes that each person has identified
      • God would give you favor with the tribes that you feel called to.
      • That God would reveal more tribes to you that He could be calling you to
    • The people of peace that each person has identified
      • Wisdom to discern if they are actually people of peace
      • Courage to have spiritual conversations with their people of peace
      • Opportunities for their people of peace to connect them with others who need to hear the Gospel

Conclude 

Building Friendships from Scratch

Connect 

  • How has your week been?
  • How can we pray for you?

Accountability 

From your personal time with the Lord…

  • What is God saying to you?
    • Through scripture
    • Through your time in prayer
    • Through your time with your family/in community
  • What are you going to do about it?
  • How can we help?

From last session’s action steps…

  • How did creating the Tribes masterlist go?
    • What tribes in your masterlist do you feel the most passionate about?
    • Which tribes do you have the most access to now at this moment?
    • Which tribes have the least amount of Christians living towards them right now?
  • How did it go meeting with your person of peace? What kind of follow up is there going to be after your initial conversation?

From the preparation for this session…

  • How are you feeling about this session that we’re about to have? 
  • Did you feel good about starting friendships from scratch before engaging with this content?

Intentional Learning 

Main Idea

  • A key part of leading others will be to start friendships with them! It may seem intuitive but there are helpful principles to think through as we seek to form relationships with those that we will eventually disciple. Some skills that we will seek to hone are how to navigate a conversation, how to create touchpoints with those that you are reaching, and how you can leverage hospitality to reach the lost and make disciples.

Learning Materials

Discussion

  • Re-teach me what you have learned
  • What is something that stood out to you in each piece of content that you went through about building friendships?
  • Regarding the articles about communication skills and conversations, what are your strong points and weak points when having conversations with new people?
  • What stood out to you the most about the KU study on friendship? 
  • Do you think that you are good at creating touchpoints with people, or is that something that you struggle with?
  • Were there any “ah-ha moments” when watching “The Gospel Comes With A House Key?”
  • How could you use where you live as a tool to build relationships with those that God is calling you to shepherd?

Practice

  • Take some time role-playing the different kind of conversations that you may find yourselves in when reaching the people that God is calling you to shepherd. Find ways to allow the conversation to be engaging and having it lead towards a later touchpoint/an invitation into your home.
  • Map out different times in your schedule that you can have touchpoints with those that you are reaching and invite them into your home!

Plan

  • Navigating Conversations
    • Each person should practice what they have learned during this session with 3 different people over the next two weeks. Have them take notes after each encounter and report their findings the following LDG session
  • Create Touchpoints
    • Everybody make a plan to meet with somebody this week that they want to eventually disciple one day. Each person should set up a regular time to meet with that person over the foreseeable future.
    • Text each other to hold each other accountable of going through with these meetings.
    • As a leader, you should meet with your disciples this week outside of D-Group or Community group.
  • Leverage Hospitality
    • Regardless of what day/time each person has decided on, have each person commit to opening up their homes to people this Sunday after church. Sit next to somebody new and invite them or talk to somebody who has recently been baptized and invite them over.
    • Each person should open up their home to a potential, future disciple before the next session. Be prepared to share with each other how that went.

Guided Prayer 

  • Pray for…
    • Clarity from the Lord on which missional focus you should be living towards
    • The ability to identify people of peace in the missional focus that God has called you to
    • An opportunity to invite non-believers into your home
    • A heart for the lost
    • The courage to respond to opportunities that God gives you to reach out to non-believers

Conclude 

Deliver the Gospel Story

Connect

  • How has your week been?
  • How can we pray for you?

Accountability 

From your personal time with the Lord…

  • What is God saying to you?
    • Through scripture
    • Through your time in prayer
    • Through your time with your family/in community
  • What are you going to do about it?
  • How can we help?

From the last session’s action steps…

  • After thought and prayer, what missional focus do you feel most called to at the moment?
  • Did you end up hanging out with anybody that you identified as a person of peace? How did that go?

From the preparation for this session…

  • Have you ever shared the Gospel with a non-believer before?
  • What is your best story from a gospel share? Do you have any embarrassing experiences with sharing the Gospel?

Intentional Learning 

  • Main Idea

The truth of the Gospel is the bedrock of our faith. If we don’t have the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus then we have nothing. Learn how to share the Gospel with those that the Lord has brought to you.

  • Practice
    • Take turns sharing the 3 Circles with each other. Keep it simple, concise, and clear. You want people to know the necessary truths of the Gospel while still staying engaged in the conversation. You are not preaching a sermon, you are having a conversation about who Jesus is and what He has done.

Plan

 

Guided prayer 

  • Pray for…
    • Opportunities to share the Gospel with the non-believers that you have met in your missional focus
    • Different ways to enter into Gospel conversations with your non-believing friends
    • Wisdom and guidance from the Holy Spirit in these Gospel conversations
    • That God would change hearts of stone into hearts of flesh as you speak

Conclude

Reading the Bible Correctly

Connect

  • How has your week been?
  • How can we pray for you?

Accountability

From your personal tome with the Lord…

  • What is God saying to you?
    • Through scripture
    • Through your time in prayer
    • Through your time with your family/in community
  • What are you going to do about it?
  • How can we help?

From the last session’s action steps…

  • How do you feel after sharing the Gospel with your non-believing friends?
  • What follow-up conversations do you need to have with your friends that you shared the Gospel with?
  • What difficulties did you run into when trying to share the Gospel that you were not anticipating?

From the preparation for this session…

  • How has your daily bible reading been since you started going through some of this content?
  • The point of this session is to help you teach others how to read the bible, but was there anything that you learned that has helped your personal bible reading experience?

Intentional Learning 

Main Idea

  • As you start to pour into people in your life, you can rely on the Bible to provide all that they need when it comes to truth, encouragement, and correction. Learn how to confidently open up the Bible and read it with those that you are starting to disciple.

Learning Material

Discussion

  • Re-teach me what you learned
  • Is there anything that stood out to you about reading the Bible that you never considered before?
  • Knowing what you know now, would you feel comfortable with helping somebody younger in their faith than you read the Bible, maybe for the very first time? Why or why not?
  • (The assumption is that everybody in this group knows how to read the Bible for themselves. The point of this is to help you help others read the Bible.)

Practice

  • Read Romans 8 
    • Use the Gospel Method to journal through what God is teaching you in Romans 8.
    • After reading through it once or twice, open up the blue letter bible app and use the commentaries found in it to interpret the scripture.
    • Read 3 commentaries on Romans 8:28, commenting on the differences between them.
      • Make an effort to choose commentaries from people in different denominations, different eras and different countries. Discuss your findings with your group.

Plan

  • Choose somebody to walk through this with that you have recently shared the Gospel with
  • Pick a Bible reading plan to go through with your people, set up a regular time to read together, and get started on a journey through the Word with those that God has called you to!

Guided Prayer 

  • Pray for…
    • Wisdom as you lead others through the Word of God
    • People to be receptive and inquisitive to the truths in the Bible
    • Those that you are reading with to build a personal time of scripture reading in their day to day lives
    • The people that you are reading with to be transformed by the Word

Conclude

Prayer-Filled Ministry

Connect 

  • How has your week been?
  • How can we pray for you?

Accountability 

From your personal time with the Lord…

  • What is God saying to you?
    • Through scripture
    • Through your time in prayer
    • Through your time with your family/in community
  • What are you going to do about it?
  • How can we help?

From the last session’s action steps…

  • How did setting up a Bible study with the people that you are reaching go?
  • What challenges did you face when setting up a time to read the Bible with them?
  • Is there anything that you wish that you would have done differently?

From the preparation for this session

  • Is prayer a regular rhythm in your life?
  • How have the guided times of prayer at the end of each of these sessions affected the way that you think about the people that God is calling you to?
  • Be honest: if somebody looked at your regular daily rhythms, would they assume that prayer is an important part of your life/ministry?

Intentional Learning 

Main Idea

Your ministry will be powerless without the power of the Holy Spirit. Learn how to lead out in prayer so that your disciples are receiving wisdom and direction from our perfect God instead of an imperfect human.

Learning Materials

Discussion

  • Re-teach me what you learned
  • How could you foresee prayerlessness affecting your personal ministry?
  • What are some things from the article that stood out to you?
  • How does Jason’s vision for a prayer-filled Church affect the way that you think about your own personal ministry?
  • What are some convictions that you have about prayer after reading The Praying Leader?
  • Are there any questions about having a prayer-filled ministry that you still have?

Practice

  • Take some time for each member in the group to create their own personal prayer list. This could include non-believers that they are trying to share the Gospel with, new Christians that they are attempting to disciple, the future groups that they will lead, etc. 

Plan

  • Schedule time in your day that is intentional prayer time for the people that God is calling you to reach/disciple
  • Create a list of things that you feel called to go to God for during those times of prayer
  • Commit to going to the Wednesday night prayer gatherings at the Fielder campus that you attend
  • Set up a time to pray with the people that you are reading the Bible with. Not as an added thing to your Bible reading time, but a time specifically for prayer

Guided Prayer 

  • Pray for…
    • A heart that desires to personally connect with God
    • Self-discipline to stay committed to the prayer time that you have allotted in your week
    • An undivided heart as you enter into times of prayer in the coming weeks, months and years
    • The Holy Spirit to be with you and move in your times of prayer

Conclude

Manage a Schedule

Connect

  • How has your week been?
  • How can we pray for you?

Accountability 

From your personal time with the Lord…

  • What is God saying to you?
    • Through scripture
    • Through your time in prayer
    • Through your time with your family/in community
  • What are you going to do about it?
  • How can we help?

From last session’s action steps…

  • How have your times of prayer been since our last meeting?
  • Have you seen God move in your times of prayer?
  • Have you been distracted in your times of prayer or have been ditching your prayer times for other things?
  • How can we help you continue to be committed to prayer?

From the preparation for this session…

  • Be honest: how are you with maintaining a schedule?
  • Have you noticed yourself forgetting plans, relying on your significant other to keep track of dates for you, or double-booking yourself?

Intentional Learning 

Main Idea

As un-spiritual as this may seem, you will not be able to disciple those that God is calling you to if you are flaky, forgetful, and unavailable. Take some time to get practical and make yourself open to those who you are discipling.

Learning Materials

Discussion

  • Re-teach me what you learned
  • Do you find yourself thinking that you don’t have enough time to do the things that the Lord is calling you to?
  • Do you remember a time in your life where you felt like you were glorifying God the most? How much time were you spending on Him weekly?
  • Do you currently have a calendar that you update regularly?
  • What kind of doors would pen up in your discipleship if you kept a calendar?

Practice

  • Set your weekly schedule
    • An easy way to do this is by creating a 3×7 grid. The 7 columns are days of the week and the 3 rows are labeled as “morning,” “afternoon,” and “evening.” Write out the different activities that you do during the time that corresponds with each box. Share this with your group.

Plan

  • Download Google Calendar and sync your work and family schedules
  • Practice setting up/tweaking weekly schedule using Google Calendar
    • Be thorough with your Google Calendar. Put your work schedule, time with family/friends, your morning routine, time with the Lord, etc. Share your Google Cal with those in your group.
  • Starting this week, integrate the replenishment cycle into your rhythms. Invite those in your group to enter into that rest with you over the next couple of weeks.

Guided Prayer 

  • Pray for…
    • Commitment to a regular schedule so that you can bring order into your life
    • More opportunities to see pockets of time that you can use for reaching those that God has called you to
    • A more balanced schedule with predictable patterns of community, shepherding, and outreach

Conclude

Creating a Spiritual Environment

Connect

  • How has your week been?
  • How can we pray for you?

Accountability 

From your personal time with the Lord…

  • What is God saying to you?
    • Through scripture
    • Through your time in prayer
    • Through your time with your family/in community
  • What are you going to do about it?
  • How can we help?

From the last session’s action steps…

  • How has managing a schedule been since we last met?
  • Have you been noticing that you have more time than you initially thought that you did?
  • Have you been filling those free spaces in your schedule up with things that are beneficial to the Kingdom?

From the preparation for this session…

  • Besides this group, what other spiritual environments are you in?
  • Have you ever been the leader of a group that focused on creating spiritual environments?
  • Have you ever been a bible study leader/community group leader/Discipleship group leader, etc.

Intentional Learning 

Main Idea

Now that you have reached the people that God has called you to, it is time to start leading them in a more formal setting. Dive into this session to learn how to lead spiritual discussions, Bible studies, and Discipling Communities.

Learning Materials

Discussion

  • Brainstorm necessary components for a Bible study
    • Write down the components and share them with your group
  • Explain components and goals of a D-Group to your group
    • Take time to talk about the reasons why a Discipleship Group is important for the people that you’ve been living towards and how you plan on inviting them into a group with you as well.

Practice

  • Start a Bible study and invite unconnected people to it
    • These should be people that you have at least had spiritual conversations with and are interested in learning more about Jesus. They could be believers or non-believers. They should not currently be in a Bible study or D-Group. Go over your plan with you group.
  • Transition your Bible study to an FDG within the next 3 months
    • Take some time as a group to come up with a plan moving forward. What kind of conversations do you need to have with those that you are leading in a Bible study in order to enter into a formal discipleship relationship with them? Process and plan accordingly with your group.

Plan

  • Have a meeting with somebody from Fielder’s discipleship team about starting a D-Group or Community Group
  • Attend the next Shepherd Training that is available
  • Learn what it looks like to lead a group at Fielder Church

Guided Prayer 

  • Pray For…
    • Wisdom and courage as you start creating spiritual environments with those that you are shepherding
    • A humble and transparent heart that is quick to confess and repent of sin when it occurs
    • Receptive hearts from the people that you are inviting to join you in creating spiritual environments

Conclude