IPHC Disciple3

Disciple 3 Planning Guide

Before proceeding to Step One in the next section, please review the Disciple 3 Planning Guide below. This Planning Guide will help put all of the components of this process into perspective.

The example copy of the guide (click here) is completed to give you a visual summary of this exciting strategy for making disciples. Notice the highlighted numbers on various parts of the Planning Guide. The brief review below will help you understand how everything works together.

Item One. The header across the top of the illustration shows the four basic steps mentioned above. These are color coded to match the time frame in which they are designed to occur.
Item Two. This is where the Prayer Strategy is mapped. Notice that each month includes the First Friday Fast and the Mission 21 Prayer Watch. If you have not yet implemented this strategy in your church, you will want to get it underway for 2004. If you already have it in place, ask your prayer groups to include the Disciple 3 activities in their prayer time(s).
Item Three. This shows the special annual emphasis, “From Easter to Pentecost,” adapted from Bishop Joseph H. King's foundational book, From Passover to Pentecost. You will want to implement either Track One or Track Two, depending on your local resources. If your congregation is large enough, you might consider doing both tracks concurrently.
Item Four. This focuses on the Jesus Model of discipleship: personal and group relationships. This is the heart of the process. Discipleship will be limited without the relationship dynamics at work. This is where members learn how to love and minister to one another. Study guides are provided for a twelve-week foundational course.
Item Five. For those who are not comfortable with the discipleship group, use the Core Curricula to begin a series of small groups/classes. These studies are specifically designed to cover basic areas of a disciple's walk with the Lord. One or several of these groups/classes can be going at the same time.
Item Six. This is a reminder to continue the journey into the next year. All of the components can be easily repeated during the next year or continued over into the next year without interruption. Remember: making disciples is not an event; it is a lifelong process.
Item Seven. The lower third of the illustration is reserved for the next year. Use that section to diagram how your processes will be repeated or continued until they become a new way of doing ministry.

Two full-sized copies of the Planning Guide are available from the Disciple 3 Download Page in PDF format. One is a full-color overview of the entire Disciple 3 process; the second is a black/white copy for you to use with your leadership team to plan implementation of Disciple 3 in your local ministry.