Making Disciples Who Make Disciples
An 18-Session Pathway for Following Jesus, Helping Others Follow Him, and Forming New Churches
This series is designed to help believers follow Jesus together, help others follow him, and form new churches. It moves in three stages. First, it establishes the foundations of making disciples, clarifying Jesus’s vision, mission, and approach. Second, it develops the core habits of making disciples, shaping a lifestyle that is relational, prayerful, and outward-focused. Third, it provides a simple launch plan for small groups of three to four people who are ready to begin a new gathering and take practical steps toward multiplication.
Phase 1: Foundations of Making Disciples (1–4)
These first sessions establish a clear and shared understanding of what Jesus is doing through his church. They help participants align their thinking with Scripture, embrace Jesus’s mission, learn a simple and repeatable approach to disciple-making, and identify common obstacles that often slow or prevent action.
1. Jesus’s Vision for His Church
2. Jesus’s Mission for His Church
3. Our Approach to Making Disciples (Love God and Love Others + 5 Movements)
4. Overcoming Obstacles to Making Disciples
Phase 2: Core Practices of Making Disciples (5–12)
These sessions focus on the core habits that shape a life of following Jesus and making disciples. Participants learn how to engage people in their everyday relationships, depend on God through prayer, serve others, share the message of the gospel, form simple gatherings, and help others grow. Each practice is simple, practical, and designed to be lived out consistently.
The Center
The Ongoing Commitments
6. Identify Our Natural Networks of Relationships
7. Pray for Ourselves and Others
The Five Movements
8. Serve to Meet Practical Needs
9. Seek to Find Receptive People
10. Invite to Discover the Christian Message
11. Gather to Grow in Biblical Community
12. Equip to Develop New Leaders
Phase 3: Launch Plan for New Gatherings (13–18)
These final sessions are designed only for those who sense a clear calling to start a new gathering and who have confirmed that direction through a discernment process with leaders. Not every participant will move into this phase. This stage is for those who are ready to take clear, practical steps toward starting a new community.
In these sessions, participants work together in small groups of three to four people to develop and carry out a simple, prayerful plan. Each session builds on the previous one, moving from confirmed calling and commitment to first gatherings, follow-up, leadership development, and evaluation. The goal is to help these teams take wise and supported steps toward forming a new gathering that can grow and multiply.
13. Discernment + Commitment
Main Outcomes: Clarify calling, identify fears and obstacles, confirm readiness, and form the initial team.
14. People + Prayer
Main Outcomes: Identify relational networks, recognize receptive people, and establish simple rhythms of prayer, care, and hospitality.
15. Mission + Gospel Clarity
Main Outcomes: Clarify the Christian message, explain the purpose of the gathering, and strengthen confidence in sharing the gospel clearly and simply.
16. Invitations + Spiritual Conversations
Main Outcomes: Practice simple invitations, learn to engage in spiritual conversations naturally, and prepare to invite others into discovery and community.
17. Preparing the First Gatherings
Main Outcomes: Develop simple and reproducible gathering rhythms, prepare for Scripture discussion, prayer, meals, mutual care, and follow-up.
18. Serving Together + Shared Leadership
Main Outcomes: Clarify team responsibilities, establish healthy communication, identify emerging leaders, and prepare to serve together with humility and unity.