For disciple-makers

You don’t need a curriculum.
You need one person and one hour a week.

Every Teacher’s Guide on this site is written for you — the person sitting across the table. Same lesson, same one-page study guide your disciple has, plus the answers, the warning signs and the next steps. Here is the rhythm it’s built for.

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The weekly rhythm

One lesson. One conversation. Every week.

MON

Send the link

Text your person the lesson link and the study guide. Twelve minutes of listening, ten minutes of writing.

WED

Listen yourself

Listen to the same lesson and read the Teacher’s Guide. Mark the two questions you most want to ask.

THU

Meet 20 minutes

Coffee, truck cab, lunch break, phone call. Work the guide together — RECEIVE, LIVE, GIVE — don’t lecture.

SUN

Be in church together

Sit in the same room on Sunday. Discipleship without the body doesn’t hold.

The 20-minute conversation

How to run it without turning it into a class

  1. Minutes 0–3 — How are you, actually? Ask about the week before you ask about the lesson. If something is on fire, that is the meeting.
  2. Minutes 3–6 — RECEIVE IT. Read the foundation scripture out loud together and work the five text questions. Answers come from the passage, not from opinion.
  3. Minutes 6–14 — LIVE IT. What does it say about God, about them, what has to change this week. Let them talk first even if it takes silence to get there.
  4. Minutes 14–18 — GIVE IT. Who needs to hear this, and when will they tell them. Get a name and a day, out loud, written down.
  5. Minutes 18–20 — Pray, short. Pray for the action step and for the person they named. Then send next week’s lesson before you leave the table.

Rule of thumb: if you are talking more than 40% of the time, ask another question instead of making another point.

When they stall

Because they will

They didn’t listen to the lesson

Don’t shame them and don’t cancel. Play the lesson together right there — it’s twelve minutes — then talk. Do that twice and the pattern usually corrects itself.

They keep missing the meeting

Change the format, not the commitment. Move to a shared shift, a drive, a phone call, a jobsite lunch. Ask directly: “Is this still something you want? I’m in either way.”

They’re stuck in the same sin

Slow the roadmap down. Stay in Stage One as long as it takes — authority of Scripture, conviction, the gospel, assurance. Progress through the lessons is not the point; Christ is. Bring in your pastor if there is danger, abuse, or addiction. You are a friend with a guide, not a counselor.

They ask a question you can’t answer

Say “I don’t know — let me find out.” Then actually find out by next week. Nothing builds more trust.

The handoff

You’re done when they can do it without you

Lesson 12 of Stage One already asks the question out loud: who are you going to take through this? Keep asking it. Help them name a person, pray for that person by name, and sit in on their first meeting if they want you there.

Then step back. Stay a friend, stay reachable, quit steering. That is 2 Timothy 2:2 — what you heard, committed to faithful people, who will teach others also.

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