Follow Jesus

Follow jesus Sessions

Follow Jesus is a Bible study for Christians to deepen their understanding of what it means to be a follower of Jesus. Whether you’ve been a Christian for many years or just recently began to follow Jesus, we hope and pray that this study will help you along the way.

If you’re not a follower of Jesus or interested in learning more about who Jesus is and what he has done to save us, check out our first Bible study, Know Jesus.

Discipleship Definitions

At Pillar Church, we value Intentional Discipleship. What does this mean?

Disciple simply means a student or a follower. Every Christian is a disciple of Christ.
Discipleship is becoming more like Christ by knowing God more truthfully, loving God more sincerely, and obeying God more faithfully.
Discipling someone is helping them become more like Christ by knowing God more truthfully, loving God more sincerely, and obeying God more faithfully.
One-on-One Discipleship refers to formal meet-ups on a clearly-defined pathway with clearly-defined goals. This study is part of our discipleship pathway.

Format

Before Meeting Up...

Pre-Reading. This short read will give you some background about the topic you’ll discuss during the meetup.
Reflection Questions. After doing the pre-reading, you’ll answer a few questions to begin to apply the reading to your own life. These questions will be discussed at your next meet-up.

While Meeting up...

Accountability. You’ll end each meet-up by identifying a single action step. We’ll start the next meet-up by keeping one another accountable to do those action steps.
Review the Pre-Reading. Does anyone have any questions about it? We’ll also answer 3–4 questions together to make sure everyone understands.

Read a Passage of Scripture. Each session of the study will focus on one passage of Scripture. Don’t skip over it and jump right to the questions — read it slowly and carefully.

Study the Passage of Scripture. The study will provide a few questions to help you understand and apply the passage.

Create an Action Step. The study will guide you to create a specific action step and share it with one another. We want you to be really specific when you set these goals. Don’t be vague (e.g., “I should evangelize more.”), but specific (e.g., “I’m going to share my faith with my co-worker, Bob, at lunch on Tuesday.”)Pray Together. We will be unable to follow Jesus unless he helps us and strengthens us. So let’s pray that he will help us.
Pray Together. We will be unable to follow Jesus unless he helps us and strengthens us. So let’s pray that he will help us.

After meeting Up...

Do the Action Step. Whatever goal you identified, do it! If you need help, ask your disciple-maker to do it with you before your next meet-up.