Making Disciples Through D-Groups

I. What is a D-Group?

A D-Group is a group of 3-5 people primarily from the same C-Group, of the same gender, meeting weekly for 1-3 years to read, memorize and journal through Scripture in order to make disciples who love God and love others.

II. Structure of a D-Group

1. Review "highs and lows" of the week

2. Pray for God to work in your lives during this time

3. Review & recite memorized scripture

4. Share HEAR journals

5. Pray for each other & the lost

III. How to Start a New D-Group

1. PARTICIPATE in a D-Group for 1-3 years

2. PRAY about whom God would have you ask to be in your group

3. APPROACH those individuals and invite them into your group

4. COVENANT with them to be committed and accountable to each other

5. INVEST your life into your D-Group participants for the next 13 years

IV. Goals of a D-Group

To produce reproducing disciples of Jesus, utilizing a pattern of disciplines/habits to equip one another

2 Timothy 2:1–2 ESV - "You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also."

Mike Breen - “If you aim to make disciples you will get the church, but if you aim to make a church you will rarely get disciples.”

Disciples are:

1. Learners

1 Timothy 4:16 ESV - "Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers."

2. Close to one another

Philippians 2:20 - “For I have no one like him ...”

3. Rooted in Christ

Colossians 2:6–7 - "Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving."

4. Faithful and Teachable

1 Timothy 1:11 - “in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.”

2 Timothy 1:14 “By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.”

5. Generationally Minded

V. MARCS of a Healthy D-Group

Missional

Accountable

Relational

Communal

Scriptural

VI. What’s Next for You as a Disciple of Jesus?