KINGDOM COME ONE YEAR PLAN We put this together to empower you to succeed when you launch Kingdom Come Discipleship at your church. We encourage you to print this out and fill in the blanks together with your main Discipleship Coordinator. After you finish, we have provided details for each part of the journey for you to consider. Please let us know if you need any further help. Name of Your Church: Name of who will be responsible for overseeing and leading Kingdom Come at your church: Discipleship resource you will use for your one on one relationships: Below is a reflection of offering two times during the year for people to be discipled and to disciple others at your church. We think it is extremely important to have consistent times during the year for people to start and finish. It is much easier to gain momentum, manage and celebrate. The plan mentioned below reflects a church that is starting in January for the first time. JANUARY FEBRUARY Identify and Recruit your Core You first have to develop a core team that will make up your foundation disciple makers team. We encourage you to start small and think long. A good number to start with is 10 percent of your church core. For example if you are a church of 300, then start with a core team of 30 people. We suggest having two people that represent every area and ministry of the church be a part of this core team. If they are a part of the beginning they will see the long term plan of having everyone in their respective ministry discipled and in the right time able to
disciple others. One last group of people that should be a part of the core team that pastors typically forget is your elder board. It is vitally important that your elders are on board and ready to disciple others. Update Your Website Make sure you have a clear place on your website that people can go, find information and sign up to be discipled. You are welcome to link to the Kingdom Come Discipleship website. We would need to have your churches contact information to direct people when they want to sign up. Feel free to use anything we have for your church. Link to our Facebook Page We suggest making sure someone is a part of our Kingdom Come Discipleship Facebook page. We will be posting articles once a week. You can simply take those articles and share them on your church's Facebook page. We also will post updates, etc. Feel free to use any of it for your church. We want it to be easy for your church to keep discipleship at the forefront through social media. Identify Your Discipleship Coordinator You will need someone who is responsible for leading Kingdom Come at your church. They need to be able to manage well, have strong administration gifts and be passionate about discipleship. No one on your team should be more passionate than they are for seeing this happen at your church. Don t rush. It is worth finding the right person. We suggest having them come into the office once a week for 4 10 hours per week. They will update the church s Facebook page, make sure people are communicated to and connected, reach out and touch base with your disciplers and plan the kickoffs/celebrations. How many people make up 10% of your core? Who are the people from each ministry that need to be a part of the foundational discipleship team? MARCH MAY
Launch Your First Kingdom Come Discipleship Round This first round of discipleship will be with your core group only. You are not inviting the entire church to consider signing up. Unlike all the rest of your rounds of discipleship, we encourage you to start by taking your core group through a nine week large group setting. It is important that they feel empowered and encouraged. It allows you to cast vision, answer any questions and model for them what you are looking for when they disciple others. What date will you start your core group round? Where and What time? Here is how we suggest structuring the weeks. Week 1 Vision Casting In the first week s meeting do three things: First, take a moment to vision cast. Answer for them the why and the why now question. This is the perfect time to also define what is spiritual maturity and what is perceived spiritual maturity. Second, make sure everyone has the Kingdom Come Discipleship book. They can purchase it online or you can buy it for them ahead of time. We recommend buying your disciple makers the book as a gift. Third, walk through a what to expect time. Ask them to read the first chapter and be ready to talk about it when you come back. Close the first meeting by reading the great commission and praying. Week 2 7 Going through the Kingdom Come Book For the next seven weeks you will model for them what you are asking them to do using the discipler s leaders guide in the back. Spend the first 15 minutes casting vision, praying for your time together and then break into groups of two and have them walk through it together. Then at the very end of the time, bring them back together and answer any questions. Model for them the goal is not to know everything, but to point people where they can find more information. Week 8 Celebrate Together Take the last week and celebrate. Have fun, share wins and enjoy a new beginning. JULY AUGUST
Use July and August to officially cast vision and create awareness for those inside your church who want to be discipled. Here are some things to consider. Preach a Message Series Preach a message series on discipleship. Let your church understand the heart behind this new direction and end each message series by having one of your disciplers pray for the congregation. Advertise for Six Weeks Leave Two Weeks to Pair Disciple Makers with Disciplers Advertise through Sunday mornings, e mail, and Facebook the amount of openings you have for people to sign up to be discipled. Explain clearly that it is seven weeks long around the foundations of the faith. You need to make sure they clearly know where and how to sign up. We suggest making it a church wide goal to have every person who is a core part of your church family be discipled and then prayerfully consider discipling one person a year. We also strongly recommend going to each of your disciple makers and asking them if there is anyone they want to ask. Have they prayerfully considered who God might have in their life? If the person is not a believer, wonderful! Always leave two weeks for the person organizing the disciple making relationships to have time to put everything together. If you need help putting together that pairing e mail please let us know. We will be happy to send you an example. Make Sure the Discipleship Relationships are Ready to Go Make sure the discipler has contacted the person they are discipling by e mail and set up a time and place to meet when they officially launch. Also, it is very important to have the people being discipled order the book online ahead of time. You don t want to be a bookstore for people. From what date to what date will you advertise to your church family that they can sign up to be discipled? (Let them know how many spots are available) When is the last date someone can sign up?
If you are going to preach a message series, when will it start and end? SEPTEMBER NOVEMBER Launch Your Second Kingdom Come Discipleship Round Very exciting! You will launch your second round of discipleship. Here is what we suggest doing to make it a homerun. Kickoff Sunday It is important to have a kickoff for every round that you launch. We suggest doing this after a Sunday morning service. Make it no more than 30 minutes and ask your disciplers to plan on having lunch with those they are discipling right after the kickoff. Here is what you want to do in that kickoff time period. Cast Vision and Clarify Expectations One thing that is very important is to remind all of those being discipled how important it is for them to not flake on their discipler! Clarify expectations and recast vision. Here are some things we like to say, It is not just about information, it is about transformation. We don t grow past our foundations, just deeper in our foundations. It is our hope that you will one day be able to disciple someone just like you are being discipled. Our disciple makers are not theological experts, rather people who love Jesus and want to help you follow Jesus. If you have some major complex questions, contact our leadership team. Organize People You will want to have a sheet with all of the relationships by name. Just have them raise their hand, one by one and point them to go over and meet each other. Take Pictures Have someone there who can take pictures of the pair together. You will want to use this on Facebook and send it to them as a great reminder of their journey together. Pray Together Gather around and pray together. Have a couple of your disciple makers pray and make it a
meaningful time! What date is the Discipleship Kickoff Sunday? Who is leading the Discipleship Kickoff and Where will it be located? Are you going to do a church wide baptism that day? (We suggest always doing a baptism the day of the discipleship launch. It is going to be a great time for disciple makers to baptize people they have been discipling.) Are you going to plan a time to celebrate? We suggest always having a time to celebrate 10 weeks after the start of the Discipleship Kickoff. It doesn t need to be expensive. Ask people to come to a park, bring their spouses, bring their own meat and do a cookout. In this time ask for people to share what hit home and how God used this time in their life. YEARS MOVING FORWARD All you need to do moving forward is take this same structure and each year put down the dates, set the Kickoff Sunday, times of celebration and you are ready to go! If someone wants to disciple they will need to fill out a discipler s leaders application and have gone through the discipleship journey. We hope this is helpful. Please let us know if you need anything. Kingdom Come!