Step by Step instructions on how to disciple another! Colossians 1:26, II Timothy 2:2 1. Prepare yourself and your personal walk with the Lord a. How have you developed your private walk with the Lord i. Psalms 15 ii. Ephesians 4 iii. Colossians 3 iv. James 1:21 v. Confessing and forsaking sin I John 1:9 vi. Forgiving others – no root of bitterness vii. Accepting the way God made you viii. Believing God to use you to help others b. How faithful are you to your regular or everyday service to the Lord i. Church attendance ii. Giving iii. Praying iv. Personal Bible reading v. Witnessing c. How is your personal relationship with your wife and children d. Do you pay your bills on time? e. How do you manage your personal relationships with others f. How are you serving the Lord in the church and other ways g. Are you ready to make discipleship the priority ministry of your life? h. Do you have a Bible conviction that the way to obey God, reach the world, and build a church is through personal discipleship 2. Pray that God will provide you with a person that you can train and disciple for the kingdom of Christ a. Jesus prayed all night –God to God—before choosing His disciples Luke 6:12 b. Begin praying now and pray and watch at all times until God gives you a person to train 3. Watch for the man God wants you to train a. Ask God for a band of men whose hearts he has touched.I Samuel 10:26 b. Be on the lookout for men that you can call to yourself and train.I Samuel 14:52 c. Some will come from our own family as we train our children Noah and his three sons, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the 12 sons d. Some will come from our ministry Moses and Joshua and the other leaders, captains and judges that worked with Moses e. Some God will miraculously call out and send to you Eli and Samuel f. Others will be at work in other jobs and not even in the ministry but God will use you to see them called into His service Elijah and Elisha g. Others will give their lives to be trained as in the sons of the prophets h. Men will be drawn to you as they see God’s hand on you and want to be a part of what God is doing in your life and ministry i. Some will be struggling to find their place and you will be there at the right time to help them Barnabas and Saul j. Some will be saved under the ministry of someone else but you can adopt them into your ministry as your son Paul and Timothy k. Some will be prepared under the ministry of another to a certain point and then God will send them to you—disciples of John the Baptist that followed Jesus Christ l. Some will be saved under your ministry m. The point is God will get you the men to train as you seek to put his plan into action 4. Remember that true discipleship is more than a lesson from a book a. It is life on life b. It is loving them as your family c. It is investing or pouring yourself into another person d. It is withness Mark 3:14 5. Get the right attitude towards your disciple a. It is more caught than taught.They learn from watching us.I Corinthians 16:10-11, 4:17 b. Take them forward at the speed that they are able to go.Genesis 33:13-14 c. Have double vision.See them as they are and then see them where God wants them to be.Judges 6:13-18.(How God saw Gideon) d. You cannot lead people where you have not already been nor to do what you have not already done or are doing. e. Have compassion Hebrews 5:1-4 6. Use the right method a. Allow your disciple to think for himself and to make mistakes b. Consider what Jesus did with his disciples i. Luke 10:1, 17 ii. Luke 8:22, 25 iii. John 6:6 7. What to do in the actual session a. Start with prayer b. Teach him to read his Bible each day i. Don’t forget that you cant ask him to do anything that you are not doing ii. You will be accountable to him as he is to you iii. He is to read a passage that is the same one that you are reading iv. He is to keep a written record 1. Date, text 2. What the passage says 3. How he can apply it to his life c. Discuss what he has read each day the past week and motivate him to read to get something from the word each day d. Have him take notes on all the Pastor’s messages and Sunday School so that you can discuss what he doesn’t understand Matthew 13:10-17, 36 e. Go over the Bible verse for the week f. Each week have him memorize 5 books of the Bible until he has memorized all the books of the Bible and can successfully find Bible passages g. Ask him what he is dealing with or might have a question about so that you can help him from the Scriptures h. Take the lesson of the week and go over it for the remainder of your time i. Do not progress until he understands and accepts the Bible lesson j. You are not in a hurry to cover a certain amount of the lesson.Your goal is to love him and help him in his personal and family life k. Give him some homework for next week and then have prayer l. Be sure to work at developing your friendship m. It is your responsibility to spend time with him at church, before and after so that he can be assimilated into the church 8. After about 8 lessons have him seek out his own disciple and begin teaching him. i. You will coach him each week as you help him disciple others ii. Make him a success and he will love you for the thrill he gets from helping others 9. Get him involved in the ministry of the church a. Sit with him and his family b. Get him to Sunday School and all the activities of the church c. Teach him to tithe, get to church on time, listen etc by your example d. Ephesians 4:11-12 10. Remember that the goal is not a series of lessons but to develop a man who can train others also a. Our Goal is to develop leaders of leaders and not just leaders b. To truly develop a man you must take him from the very basic level to the priority God wants him to have of being reproductive c. Prepare all to serve God full time and be shocked if they do not d. Take them as far as they are willing to go PRIORITY MINISTRY train leaders
PUBLIC MINISTRY “church planter” (If you plant one church, are you a church-planter?)
PERSONAL MINISTRY soul-winning (Individual discipling – usually doesn’t happen)
PRIVATE MINISTRY character and home life 11.Discipleship starts at or before salvation | 
