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What You Should Know Before Starting a Discipleship Group


The discipleship crowd is the gathering of Christians who meet on a regular basis to study the Word of God and to live life together by sharing meals, helping one another, and bearing one another's sorrows.

Engage


If you wish to lead a discipleship group, you should involve a community that is comparable to the early church described in Acts. The believers there met in a communal worship service. They got to know each other in a private setting, their own houses, and most importantly, they shared meals. Jesus intended for us to be in a secure community where we might thank Him and share our honest emotions. When beginning a discipleship group, consider how you can make it a safe environment for all participants.

Don't just preach at them or reel off a list of reasons why they should attend to your discipleship group; instead, love them as Jesus would and begin to pray for them on a daily basis to guarantee your discipleship group is a safe place. It goes without stating that God really care for these individuals more than anybody else could, and so if you begin with prayers and ask God how to connect with these people, you will find that God has a plan for you.

God will provide you with insight and understanding on how to be deliberate in all you do, including the smallest aspects of engagement.

Embrace

It is the responsibility of the Holy Spirit to condemn individuals, and it is only God's job to judge them. It is our responsibility to love God with all of our hearts before loving others as we love ourselves. It is our duty to lead each member of our discipleship groups into a deeper relationship with Jesus and to model that, not to compel them to behave in a specific way.

Once you've assembled your group, it's time to accept one more thing: awkward silence. We should want people to feel heard and recognized as leaders of discipleship groups, and in order to do so, we cannot occupy every spare second with our comments, but rather should allow the group to speak for the bulk of the meeting time.

Encourage

Encourage one another in your spiritual gifts and build each other up in areas related to this chapter as you and your group grow in your relationships with God and each other. Encourage one another in truth, love, and spiritual development because the Body of Jesus Christ is a magnificent manifestation of how much Lord God loves relationship.

As you grow to know people over time, be aware of the difficulties and temptations that each member of your group will face. Encourage them, serve them, bear their burdens, and trust in Jesus' capacity and power to love one another as He loves us. Discipleship groups are for everyone who is a part of them; they are a community and a family that should be engaged and welcomed.

Evaluate

Evaluate how you individually led and how the time with your group went after each group. Be truthful. Instead of ignoring their helpful criticism, appreciate the members of your organization by listening to them and prioritizing their interests over your own.

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