Becoming and Making Spirit-Empowered Disciples
Becoming and Making Spirit-Empowered Disciples
By the end of this lesson, participants will:
Integrate the three dimensions of the O3 Discipleship Model into a unified framework for lifelong spiritual formation.
Understand that discipleship is both personal and missional.
Develop a practical discipleship action plan for continued growth.
Commit to living under the continual leadership of the Holy Ghost.
Embrace the biblical responsibility to make disciples of others.
Discuss or journal these questions.
Which O3 dimension has challenged you the most?
How has your understanding of the Holy Ghost changed during this study?
What spiritual disciplines will you intentionally practice over the next thirty days?
Who can help you remain accountable in your discipleship journey?
Who has God placed in your life that you can intentionally disciple?
Invest in a relationship with two or three others for a year, give or take. Meet weekly for approximately ninety minutes. (A discipling relationship varies in length because of the relational dynamics and the growth processes unique to each relationship.) Then multiply. Each person invites two or three others for the next leg of the journey and does it all again. Same content, different relationships. People have asked me, “Won’t this get boring covering the same content repeatedly?” My standard reply from experience is a resounding no! Why? The relational dynamics are always different, and this difference keeps the process interesting.
Ogden, Greg. Transforming Discipleship, InterVarsity Press, 2016.