Discipleship
What is Discipleship?
The word discipleship brings many different ideas to people’s minds. For some it’s a class that someone leads. For others, it’s a one-on-one weekly or regular meeting where the Bible is studied or life is discussed. For many more, discipleship is a small group of people who study the Word together. All of these are forms that discipleship can take and all have merit.
Broadly speaking, discipleship is any setting where someone learns. During Sunday morning corporate worship, discipleship happens. During community group, discipleship happens. During small group meetings, discipleship happens. But there are also discipleship opportunities when two people watch a movie and then discuss it or when parents explain to their child why something is or isn’t allowed or when a group plays a sport together.
The example from Jesus is not a roped-off time, but an all-of-life approach. Even when He was teaching a group of thousands, He was primarily teaching His disciples. Every word, every action, every decision was intentional and was meant to teach.
The Rhythm of Discipleship
At Perkinsville, we want Christians to understand that discipleship is not an isolated event or meeting in our lives, but is something that we are always doing. It’s a rhythm of our lives. We can do it well or do it poorly, but we are always teaching something. As a church, we want to be intentional about the things we do, the people we spend time with, the things we say and do, and the decisions we make.
We want to equip you with resources and opportunities for intentional opportunities to both be a disciple and to disciple others.
Build Your Toolbox.
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Evangelism. Intentional Relationships. Prayer. Worship. Multiplication. Discipleship.
Build Your
Toolbox.
Think of the main material you are going through as your hammer. This may be a book focusing on the rhythm, a book of the Bible, or another discipleship format/material. Click on each material to find out more, or find them on the Resources page.
Pick out the rest of
your Intentional Relationship tools.
Grab your Intentional
Relationship hammer.
The rest of your tools are activities and exercises that help you recognize how to incorporate the rhythm of intentional relationships into your life. There are initial exercises to help you understand the purpose of the final activities. Over the course of the next 8 weeks some of these activities will repeat. For the full description and instructions of each activity, download the the tool guide.
Intentional Relationship Hammers
Intentional
Relationship Tools
to be repeated for the amount of people in your inner circle
Meaningful Act
To do something intentional with or for others.
Meaningful Conversations
To think about how to have conversations with intention and purpose and to act upon it.
Gospel Foundations
To remember that each rhythm should be understood in the context of all other rhythms and that all of them depend on the gospel.
Oikos Map
A helpful tool to help you think through people who are close to you that do not know the gospel and then people close to them.
Inner Circle
To identify specific people you will consider over the next few months and, hopefully, beyond.
The Why
To understand the biblical reason behind intentional relationships
Prayer Plan
To make a habit of praying for specific people.