Personal Growth through Mentoring
Mentoring Phases
As your mentoring group meets, begin to go through each phase consecutively. As you add another person to your mentoring group, no matter where you are, restart with phase 1. You will cycle through these phases many times, but it never gets boring, because each time another life is changing. When your mentoring group gets to 5 people, begin to plan to multiply into 2 groups. When you have 6 people consistently coming to your mentoring group, multiply into two new groups. At first the idea of multiplying feels like dividing, but it is essential to stay at 5 people or below to keep the micro-group dynamic going. Beyond five people it is not practical to keep customized growth plans for everyone in the group. But don’t stress, there are still plenty of ways to get together to keep your friends close. Prayer meetings, Simple Churches, prayer-walking and other ministry times can keep you all together and growing.
PHASE 1
The Foundations of Christianity
Go through the 8-lesson series, “The Foundations of Christianity”. This curriculum can help a person become fully committed disciple of Jesus.
Before accepting the challenge, it is important that you are in agreement with some basics of following Jesus. There are so many churches teaching so many doctrines that are not in line with clear biblical teaching, that we ask everyone - from new seeker to long-time Christian leader - to go over these 8 foundational lessons. It is also important that this is not just knowing these principles, but actually living them out. We don’t want to reproduce a watered-down discipleship or replicate or promote false doctrine. After going through these lessons, if you are in agreement, and are willing to live and teach these foundations to others, you are ready to take the Ultimate Impact Challenge!
PHASE 2
The First 40 Days of Impact
Go through a 40-day curriculum designed as daily devotionals which includes a weekly lesson to go through with your mentoring group. This curriculum can help a fully committed disciple become a fruitful disciple of Jesus.
If you are already in your mentoring group, and they already have a copy of the “First 40 Days” material, you can get a digital or hard copy from them. If not, just email us from the contact page and let us know you have taken the Ultimate Impact Challenge and we will send you the material. This material helps you to take some practical steps, such as beginning to pray for others in your sphere of influence, learning and utilizing your spiritual gifts, discovering a more customized ministry path, and learning to share your testimony. It also builds a philosophy to live your life by in which mentoring, fellowship, encouragement, equipping and training can happen to make you more fruitful as a disciple of Jesus.
IN Phase 2, we begin a new habit every time we meet. In addition to going through one of the lessons in the curriculum, each person in the group is asking God to lead them into their next steps to get closer to God and how to be more fruitful. We each support the others in the group with their next steps even though ours may (and probably will be) different.
PHASE 3
Zume Training
Go through Zume Training. This curriculum can help a fruitful disciple become an effective disciple-maker and Simple Church starter.
Zume is a 10-week course that typically meets weekly for 2 hours per week. There are assignments to fulfill each week that give you practical training to obey, share and train others in what you are learning.
At the end of this curriculum, you will have the tools, habits and perspectives you need to be an effective disciple-maker. And you will have practiced each of these enough to get started with disciple-making.
You will also be invited to get into a coaching relationship with either your Zume facilitator or another Ultimate Impact coach who will guide you through your personalized 3-month plan as you get better and better at making disciples and starting Simple Churches. Simple Churches are groups small enough that they can fit in a home or in a place that is free or very low rent and can multiply new churches in your area and beyond.
As our network grows, we will provide more resources to help you, so visit our site often and check out new videos on our YouTube page.
