Encounter Church
Wednesday Night 02.26.25

  • Team Goals

    Each member of the group will be equipped with a reproducible process of Spiritual Growth.
    Each member will understand how to minister to small-group members who are at each of the different places in the discipleship process of Share, Connect,Minister, or Disciple

    Warm-Ups: Welcome,Sharing and Shepherding (15 Minutes)

    Prayer
    As you look at the overview of the reproducible process, how intentional have you been as a disciple-maker?
    Share your experience at explaining the SCMD process to someone

    Vision Casting and Review (10 Minutes)

    What are the four parts of the reproducible discipleship process?
    How would Christianity have been affected if Philip had not been discipled and released to go and make disciples himself?

    Coaching and Practice (45 Minutes)

    Read John 4:4-30 aloud. What are the four things Jesus shares with the woman at the well?
    Do you believe that God made your for relationships? How does the belief that being a disciple is just about us and Jesus directly contradict Jesus’ command in Mark 12:29-30?
    Using 1 John 4:19-21 as your foundation, what would you say to a believer who said that he or she did not need other people to be rightly related to God?
    What is the third connection disciples need to make after connecting to God and other believers?
    Review the story of the feed of the five thousand and discuss what jobs Jesus gave his disciples?
    What do you think is “the work” Jesus was finishing?
    Take a moment and read Acts 1:1-11 aloud. What did it look like for Peter,Philip, and Timothy to “go and make Disciples”?

    Game Plan and Strategy (20 Minutes)

    Share with the group your self-evaluation of the frequency and depth of your relationship with God.
    What fears, insecurities, struggles, and doubts do you need to give over to the Lord so you can be a more effective disciple maker?
    Share your list of names you believe God has empowered you to disciple?
    Pray with one another, asking God to lead each of you in discipling those on your lists
    Closing Prayer according to what was shared in the responses above.

    Scriptures:

    John 4:4–30 NKJV
    4 But He needed to go through Samaria. 5 So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. 9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?” 13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” 15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.” 19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will tell us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.” 27 And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?” 28 The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, 29 “Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” 30 Then they went out of the city and came to Him.
    Mark 12:29–30 NKJV
    29 Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.
    1 John 4:19–21 NKJV
    19 We love Him because He first loved us. 20 If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.
    Acts 1:1–11 NKJV
    1 The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, 2 until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, 3 to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. 4 And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me; 5 for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” 6 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. 8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” 9 Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. 10 And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, 11 who also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.”
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