Encounter Church
Wednesday Night 03.12.25

  • Connect: Helping Spiritual Children Grow

    Team Goals:
    Each member will know how to help the spiritual infant connect
    Members will be challenged to connect with their disciples relationally
    Members will understand how to connect spiritual infants with Gdo the Father, their family, their church and God’s purpose
    Members will be challenged to evaluate their own connection to God, the church, and God’s purpose

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

    Open the rest of the meeting with prayer
    Recall Doug’s story from Day. Do you relate more easily to the experience of Brandon and Jim or to Doug?
    Which of the descriptions form day 1 accurately reflects your walk with Christ?

    Vision Casting and Review (10 Minutes)

    List from memory the three connections an intentional leader helps a spiritual infant or a child take?
    Share your list of ways you can be more intentional with the spiritual children God has placed in your life in order to help them mature.

    Coaching and Practice (45 Minutes)

    What kinds of things should we model for those we disciple?
    What do you think it looks like for Christians to feed themselves spiritually?
    What spiritual disciplines do you consider foundational for a spiritual child to learn?
    What potential roadblocks do you think could hinder a spiritual child’s connection to God?
    Read Hebrews 3:12-13 and 10:24-25 aloud and discuss three specific roles a small group fulfills for its members
    Hebrews 3:12–13 NKJV
    12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
    Hebrews 10:24–25 NKJV
    24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
    6. Share with the group a bit about the people you are discipling and identify ways you can help connect them more deeply with the family of the church.
    7. How did you paraphrase Ephesians 4:12 on day 4
    Ephesians 4:12 NKJV
    12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
    8. What are some reasons a person may struggle connecting those they disciple to their purposes?
    9. Share the name of someone you are discipling and the specific the steps you can take to connect that person to his or her purpose.
    10. According to the Scriptures shared in this week’s lesson, what are the six steps to working through conflict?

    Game Plan and Strategy

    Which one of the three connections we have studied today is most difficult for you? What can you do to improve in that area?
    Identify a place God personally impacted you in this week’s lesson. Share with the group why you think this point had such an impact. What will you do about it?
    Consider any unresolved conflicts with those you are discipling and ask the group to hold you accountable to do your part to reconcile the situation.
    Be specific about what God is calling you to do do to resolve conflicts.
    Close your meeting by praying for one another according to what was shared in the responses above.

    Extra Scriptures

    Matthew 18:15–19 NKJV
    15 “Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.’ 17 And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector. 18 “Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. 19 “Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.
    Matthew 7:3–5 NKJV
    3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
    1 John 2:9–11 NKJV
    9 He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now. 10 He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him. 11 But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
    Colossians 3:13–15 NKJV
    13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. 14 But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.
    Ephesians 4:1–3 NKJV
    1 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, 2 with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, 3 endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
    Ephesians 4:1–3 NKJV
    1 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, 2 with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, 3 endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
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