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 (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.

5. Love God and Love Others

6. Identifying Our Natural Networks of Relationships

7. Praying for Ourselves and Others

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. Commit + Form Team

14. People + Prayer Alignment

15. First Gathering Vision + Plan

16. Rehearse + Prepare

17. Launch + Coaching

18. Strengthen + Multiply