After laying good foundations through our Discipleship Foundations Lessons, what do you do next?
The following is a curated list of resources to build on your discipleship foundations toward maturity in Jesus:
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 knowing, loving and walking with the Lord.
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, love and Christlike character:
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.
- Receive freedom prayer ministry
- 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