Bible study plan

Sent: Learn to Make Disciples

Twelve passages that turn a believer into someone who starts studies with others. Not how to be discipled — how to disciple.

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This is the plan a church leader walks through with their most faithful people. Not how to be discipled — how to disciple: eleven passages that move a believer from hearing the word to starting studies with others. It ends where multiplication begins, at 2 Timothy 2:2 — four generations in a single verse.

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  1. 1

    The harvest is plentiful, the workers are few

    Short

    Matthew 9:35-38

  2. 2

    Sent out two by two: the person of peace

    Standard

    Luke 10:1-11

  3. 3

    Four soils: what happens to the Word

    Long

    Mark 4:1-20

  4. 4

    Fishers of people

    Standard

    Luke 5:1-11

  5. 5

    “Tell them what the Lord has done”

    Short

    Mark 5:18-20

  6. 6

    The woman who brought her whole town

    Long

    John 4:27-42

  7. 7

    Philip and the Ethiopian

    Standard

    Acts 8:26-40

  8. 8

    God prepares both ends

    Long

    Acts 10:9-33

  9. 9

    Jesus goes to the house

    Standard

    Luke 19:1-10

  10. 10

    Kept, sanctified, and sent

    Standard

    John 17:9-19

  11. 11

    Make disciples who obey

    Short

    Matthew 28:16-20

  12. 12

    Four generations

    Standard

    2 Timothy 2:1-7

Passage links open in the Open Bible (OTB). Scripture quotations are from the Open Translation Bible (OTB), used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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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