Effective Cell Group Topics You Can Use

Anyone in the group can lead the others through these three questions. But I also like the Disciple Making Movement (DMM) questions:

1. Read the passage several times together, perhaps in different translations. Then answer these questions.

2. What does it say?

3. How would I say that? (Each person tries to retell the passage or Bible story in their own words.)

4. What must I do to obey what I have learned? “I will…” (Each person crafts an “I will” statement or two to tell how they will obey the passage this week.)

I especially like coming together the following week and starting with:

1. With whom did you share what you learned last week?

2. How did it go with your “I will” statements?

As you are making disciples in your own group, make sure the disciples in training succeed by giving them simple questions that apply God’s Word. And remember to aim for obedience. People hear sermons on Sunday. But do they obey what they hear? Are they living out the Christian life?

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Jesus, the head of the church, has chosen small groups to make disciples who make disciples (Matthew 28:18-20). And he told his group of disciples, “teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you” (Matthew 28:20). One of Christ’s own disciples, James, summed up this thinking perfectly, “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says” (James 1:22)

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