Allow time for everyone to write down their “I will” statements and make notes about who they plan to talk to in the week ahead.Īnd that’s it! Plan for the next time you’ll gather to share your experiences from the week and to examine another scripture together. Make sure everyone gets a chance to contribute to the conversation. Who are you going to tell about what you discovered this week? Write down an “I WILL _” statement for the week ahead. How can you personally and s pecifically live out what God is showing you in this text? What does this story tell us about people? What does this story tell us about God? Have someone re-tell it in their own words. HEAR from God through the scripture passage. is a helpful way to remember these steps: Hear, Observe, Practice, and Encourage. Next, it’s time to ask the “discovery questions” which help us to discover what the Bible says and take action. If this group has gathered previously, ask: How did you do with your last "I WILL" statement? Did you share with others? What’s a challenge you’re facing right now? To facilitate a DBS, you’ll need a couple of participants, a Bible story, and a few simple questions. Once the group has gathered, start by sharing the responses to these questions with each other: Multiply by encouraging members of the group to start new groups with other friends and family.
Let the Holy Spirit lead and transform lives! Trust God to be much better at teaching truth than we are. No one needs to teach, just discover it together!
Invite them to discover what God has to say about life.Īsk the discovery questions (see below). Identify people around you who are spiritually curious. The DBS process is intentionally simple so that it can launch and reproduce in any context. Unchurched people are beginning to take a journey to discover Jesus everywhere from college campuses to suburban neighborhoods, recovery homes to high schools, nursing homes to immigrant populations.
In places like Kansas City, these simple groups are beginning to pop up in every conceivable affinity group and area. Luis, with tears in his eyes, looks up and says, "What did she do to deserve grace?" This was a key revelation from the Holy Spirit that allowed Luis to take a major step towards surrendering his life to Jesus. Within a short time 12 groups were launched that helped folks from the church reach friends and neighbors outside the church.Īfter a DBS about the sinful woman washing Jesus' feet. After seeing the response, he formed a team and taught them how to lead a DBS. Tim, a local pastor in Illinois began sharing “Overcoming Fear” with people on the fringe of the church. Tony led an online DBS focused on overcoming fear. This pod (or cell block), which was known as the Gladiator Pod, became the God Pod. Inmates at a local jail began following Jesus and using DBS saw almost the whole pod interacting with the Bible led by fellow inmates. DBSs are simple, easily reproducible, and train new disciples to obey Jesus in everything.Ī Discovery Bible Study in the hands of ordinary people is bringing transformation to spiritually-hungry people, families, groups, and communities.Īfter one DBS session together 12 year-old Josh asked, “Can I lead next week?” While leading the following week his mother responded to the question “How will you apply this passage to your life this coming week?” She said “I need to commit my life to Jesus”-and she did. Deep enough to make surrendered and transformed disciples of Jesus. In a DBS group, spiritually-interested people read a Bible story together, discover what it says, and then are challenged to immediately live out what they learned and share it with someone else.ĭisciple-making must be both light-weight and deep-rooted: Light enough for anyone, anywhere, to replicate with their friends and family. It’s a great way to share the good news of Jesus and form new disciples in an interactive, Holy Spirit-led format. A Discovery Bible Study (DBS) is a disciple-making tool used to help launch gospel movements-sometimes known as Disciple Making Movements or DMM-around the world.
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