Bible study plan
Discovering Church Planting
Twelve passages for people who intend to start churches, not just studies.
Twelve passages for people who intend to start churches, not just studies. This is the next plan for a church-leader cohort that has finished ‘Sent: Learn to Make Disciples’ — each week presses from the text toward a real planting step: a place named, a person of peace found, a household gathered, shepherds raised up.
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Passage links open in the Open Bible (OTB). Scripture quotations are from the Open Translation Bible (OTB), used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
How to use this plan
Who this is for
- A cohort that has finished ‘Sent’ and intends to plant. Twelve passages for church leaders who are done studying about mission and are ready to start churches — this is not another study for its own sake.
How to use it
- The same DBS discipline as every plan. Read the passage, retell it in your own words, work the four questions, and end with an honest “I will…”.
- Every “I will…” is a planting step. A place named, a household visited, a person of peace sought, a first group gathered, a future shepherd invited. If a week ends in private devotion only, push further.
- Facilitate, don’t lecture. These planters will lead the way they see you lead. Keep asking, “Where do you see that in the passage?” and let the text do the sending.
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How to use a Bible study plan
Read one passage at a time together and ask a few simple questions: What does this tell us about God? About people? What will you obey this week, and who will you share it with? Simple, repeatable, and easy to pass on.
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