Who's Your One?
We want every disciple to identify one person in their life who is far from God and intentionally pursue that person with the hope of the Gospel by praying for their one, investing in their one, and inviting their one to take whatever their next step is. As a Discipleship Group, we continually encourage, challenge, and hold each other accountable to be intentional with this relationship. Once each disciple identifies who this person is, we want them to commit to doing three things:
PRAY
You will pray daily for your one. You will ask God to make your one aware of Christ’s love and their need for Him and for God to give them the faith to repent of their sin, believe in Jesus, and follow Him.
INVEST
You will intentionally create ways to invest in your one’s life every week. This can be a text message, a phone call, or a visit. Encourage them. Speak positive truth into their life. The purpose is to build a relationship where you can share Christ’s love with them. As you invest in someone’s life, you build trust, which creates more opportunities to share the Gospel.
INVITE
As you pray and invest, you will have the opportunity to invite them to take whatever their next step in their faith might be. The greatest opportunity would be to share your faith story and invite them to enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. When people aren’t there yet, we can invite them to belong in our community before they believe. We do this by inviting them to meet for coffee, dinner, or over to our house to watch a ball game or have a play date. We can invite them to our Small Group, a church event, or a Sunday morning service.
During the accountability time of our D-Group each week, we will ask “How have you been praying and investing in your one this week?” How exciting will it be when the person you’ve been praying for comes to know Jesus? Imagine one day if you were able to invite them to join your next discipleship group!
Take some time to identify one person in your life who either doesn’t have a relationship with Jesus or is far from Christ. This person should be someone you see or can see on a regular basis. Consider your family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, classmates, etc. Once you identify this person, write their name down and share a little about this person with the group.
Who's your one?