Selection

This guidebook will bear the most fruit in your life and our church as you work through it with a group of disciples/friends (a Discipleship Group). Forming this group starts with selection. Salvation starts with selection—God selects, elects, chooses us. And a discipleship journey starts with selection, as modeled by Jesus: he selected people to disciple. This pattern is then repeated throughout the New Testament by various leaders who select people (either in a hierarchal/top-down model, or a peer-based/side-to-side model) to make, mature, and multiply disciples together.

Jesus started his discipleship movement through selection, prayerfully selecting a small group of teachable disciples to share the gospel and his life with. We do the same thing. Start talking to God and talking to people, then thoughtfully select 3-5 people who want to commit to a journey of making, maturing, and multiplying disciples together.

Something we see Jesus, Paul, and other great disciple-makers doing is the simple act of taking someone with them wherever they were going as a way to share their life with them. Build a habit of taking someone with you as you go about ordinary life—running errands, a walk or a workout, eating a meal, taking a trip. Turn these ordinary moments into discipleship moments where you transfer truth and love through relationship. Much disciple making is caught, not taught, as a person begins to slowly absorb and imitate another’s example. Never forget that the greatest impact you will have on people is usually through your presence, not your ideas. Presence matters most.

Here is the full Habit One to the Guidebook to flip through, too:

We also want you to have access to the whole Guidebook if you don’t already, so below is a link to download it. We have a physical Guidebook for you too, so you can scribble down your thoughts and prayers and dive into the resource in a Lifegroup! Just email Alayne and we will get you a copy!