How To Start Journey
In Your Ministry

1. Publicly Recognize at Lessons 5 and 10

 

We strongly recommend you publicly recognize the discipler and the disciple at the end of Lesson 5 and Lesson 10.

 

*The Certificate files are in the Downloads section.

2. Keep Records
Ask the disciplers to record all discipleship meetings on the publicly posted form at the church, if you use that.

 

Monitor the progress of each discipler by observing how quickly or slowly they are progressing.

 

The record-keeping files are in the Downloads section.

3. Continue Expanding

 

Talk about discipleship with Journey every Sunday.  Include it in every aspect of your ministry: camps, retreats, fellowships, outreach, invitations, preaching, teaching, and training - bring all the parts together.

 

All activities should (and can) strengthen discipleship.

 

Become a First-Century Church and not a Medieval church. In a first-century church, the Pastor is a shepherd whose goals are to care for and multiply the sheep.

 

Jesus said “feed my lambs”, “feed my sheep,” “feed my sheep” because new believers (lambs) mature to become sheep who reproduce sheep.

 

Picture this in your mind:  all your adults can lead someone to Christ and are trusted to disciple new converts to do the same.

 

A person can be discipled online by the author or his wife, John and Cathy Honeycutt, who are church planters at discipleship.uteach.io
 

A Life-Time Philosophy

Though the discipleship lessons are called "Journey," the Bible has a specific path to become a disciple of Jesus Christ.

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These destinations are "built in" the lessons to provide a lifetime philosophy to be a multiplying disciple-maker.

 

We call them the Steps of Discipleship:

 

1. The first Step is to become a Believer. John 8:30

 

2. A disciple is in the Word of God every day. John 8:31

 

3. A disciple in prayer to God every day. Luke 11:1

 

4. A disciple and discipler meet together every week. John 13:34-35

 

5. A disciple is growing in a Local church with a pastor. Ephesians 4:11-12

 

6. A disciple is obedient to the Word of God and becomes a disciple-maker. Luke 14:33

 

7. A disciple-maker leads people to Christ and disciples them. John 15:8

 

8. A disciple-maker multiplies disciple-makers. John 15:16