Exploring Christ

Exploring

Embracing

Establishing

Equipping

Empowering

The major intent of the first level of the Come and See phase is to introduce spiritual seekers to Jesus Christ and help them accept Jesus as their personal Savior. A disciple who has completed this phase has given testimony of their faith in Christ by being publicly baptized and regularly participate in personal and public worship. read a more complete definition...

The following lesson resources are designed for small group bible study but can always be use for one-to-one discipleship as well. We have organized these bible study lessons by the four spiritual growth phases used by Jesus as recorded in the New Testament Gospels. For a more detail on these phases read Bill Hull’s classic book, Jesus Christ, Disciplemaker.

Download Exploring Christ: Small Group Lessons for Spiritual Seekers

This 110 page e-book contains nine series with a total of 42 lessons for open outreach oriented small groups. It includes series on such topics marriage, who is Jesus?, life lessons from the Bible, the 10 Commandments, strength for the struggles and more. You may use the different series in any order that you choose and skip any that do not fit your group or purpose. These lessons are intentionally designed to be simple to lead and part of a weekly bible application oriented small group gathering that lasts 60 to 75 minutes. With the purchase of this download you also have permission to make unlimited copies for your group or groups within one local church. You may also rewrite any portion of a lesson to meet the need of your group or church ministry. See Training Session for Small Group Leaders for instruction on facilitating effective small groups.

You may also want to use some of the following printed curriculum to helping your small group members come to have their spiritual questions answered personal faith in Jesus Christ:

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Tough Questions Series By Garry Poole & Judson Poling (Willow Creek Resources)