Watch the video above and talk about it with a group or mentor. Learn more.

Pastor Bryan sits down with three regular people who are using the PG tools to actually make disciples. Here's how they explain the phases of disciple-making.

We’ve talked generally about the why, how, and what of pursueGOD.org (PG) mentoring using our online tools. Now we’ll examine the image below to understand the three phases of PG mentoring: invite, invest, empower. Understanding these phases will help you move forward and make disciples with our tools.

Inviting

Inviting is all about starting a relationship. One invitational strategy is to simply share a video from PG that may be helpful for someone you know. This opens the door for an invitational conversation because we are meeting people where they are and helping them deal with practical needs.

If you’re a parent or a student looking to start a mentoring group, it’s important to work together so you don’t step over any boundaries with parents and to help students make connections.

The PG resources make this process reproducible, meaning that when people who are being discipled later become mentors themselves, they’ll also know how to use the tools in the PG library to make disciples. It’s a win-win.

[Relate: 3 Ways to Invite Into a Discipleship Relationship]

Investing: Start Pages and 101 Series

The investing phase of mentoring is all about helping another person honor God after they have trusted Jesus. We invest in them by meeting them where they are, talking with them about issues that matter to their lives. It’s not about Bible knowledge trivia or theological flexing, but genuine investment in genuine relationship.

Start pages are a great way to bring structure to a new relationship. These pages organize some of PG’s best content by audience, so you can easily find discussion topics for men, women, students, athletes, or anyone else.

On these start pages, you’ll find 101 series. These special series gather up some of the “best-of” content featured on PG. If you’re new to mentoring, going here after you find the right start page is a great way to hit the ground running.

Empowering: Training

Empowering is about helping someone you’ve mentored become a mentor themselves because the goal is to help others to help others. And in order to equip someone to do that, they’ll need to be trained. So we’ve set up the Training page to help you do just that.

Article for this topic by Daniel Martin.
Read more
Read less

Key Points:

  • Inviting is as simple as finding a topic that is meaningful to the person you’re inviting.
  • To move to the investing phase, try a 101 series from one of our start pages. Eventually, be sure to cover Faith 101, which introduces our foundational “full circle” pursuit of God.
  • Don’t get stuck in the investing phase! When you’re ready to empower the next person to be a disciple-maker, use the Training 101 series.

Update:

Great news! Now we’ve added “The Pursuit”, 12-topic discipleship tracks designed to help you go “full circle” in a pursuit of God. It makes the Invite-Invest-Empower process easier than ever! Click here to view all tracks.

See Also: Mentoring

Image:

Talk About It
  1. What is your initial reaction to this topic? What jumped out at you?
  2. Make a list of three people you are thinking about inviting into a group or mentoring relationship. Which Start Page or topic would be most interesting to them?
  3. Why did these people make it on your short list? What would you say is a roadblock to inviting them?
  4. How long could you see yourself investing in those people? Which of them could be empowered someday to help someone else pursue God? Explain.
  5. Make a plan to finish Training 101 with your mentor or training group. Schedule meetings for the next 6 weeks, and then talk about next steps to make sure you get started as a mentor.
  6. Write a personal action step based on this conversation.

This is part of the Training 101 series.

Print Friendly, PDF & Email