Welcome to ‘Helping Others Be Disciples’ – an enriching, online course designed to empower you to engage in deeper discipleship within your local community, whether it be your family, small group, or church. We pray this resource can be helpful to you.
Discipleship is a way of life that transcends individual growth and reaches into entire communities transforming them into beacons of light, giving sight to a darkened world. In this course, our aim is to guide you through three fundamental pillars that will help you and your community foster a culture of discipleship wherever you are.
First, we'll explore the mindset for being a community that makes disciples. It's not just about acquiring truth - it's about embodying the mindset of a trainee who is consistently learning and applying practical skills that help them grow in their love for Christ and others. We'll explore the core principles that will not only foster this mindset but also create a foundation for impactful discipleship.
Next, you will be equipped with a tangible skillset for discipling others after the teachings of Christ. From helping others develop a vision for personal transformation to applying specific spiritual disciplines, we'll cover practical skills that will help you to guide and support others on their discipleship journeys.
Finally, you will be invited to imagine what it might look like to share discipleship practices together as believing communities. We'll explore the beauty of communal growth, fostering a sense of unity in communally shared rhythms of life.
If you want to make a lasting impact in your local community, join us in this course ‘Helping Others Be Disciples.' And together, we will begin to cultivate a culture of discipleship that extends far beyond ourselves. You can enroll at the link provided below.
Course Goals
- Adopt the mindset for discipling others.
- Learn a tangible skillset for discipling another person after Christ.
- Imagine what it might look like to share discipleship practices together as believing communities.
Table of Contents
Lesson 0 – Introduction
Lesson 1 – Communities that Disciple
Lesson 2 – Discipling Individuals
Lesson 3 – Discipling Communities
Conclusion
Course Expectations
This course can be taken individually or collectively with a group. Group participation has advantages. Course activities will prompt profitable discussions between participants. Prompts were designed to raise relevant conversations between members on leadership teams like local church pulpits.
There are three lessons in this course. Participants should expect 0.75 hour/lesson of commitment to the content of the course and group interaction.
Lesson Format
All resources for this course will be provided on our online interface. There will be text to read, videos to watch and question prompts to respond to. The cadence of the lessons will be as follows:
Envision: the lesson casts a vision forward.
Reflect: the lesson casts inspection backward.
Learn: the lesson offers learning for the present.
Apply: the lesson offers a path forward.
Maintain: the lesson emphasizes what maintenance looks like for the forward path.
Course Notes (optional):
If you find pre-made notes helpful, the link below is a pdf of the course content in note form. If you wish to print and use them as a paper guide, feel free to do so. This, however, is not required.
Helping Others Become Disciples Course Notes
Sign-Up
Participants will be able to determine how frequently lessons are to be completed. Below are three enrollment options. Participants can enroll independently. They can enroll with the intent to participate as a group. With this option, prompts will ask for participants and ACCFS will complete the registration. Or participants can enroll as a facilitator. This option gives them the rights to enroll anyone they want into the course.
Sign up below by choosing how you will be participating in the course.
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