Disciple Making on the Front Lines: Michigan
Disciple making is unfolding in living rooms, around kitchen tables, and inside public schools.
We asked one of our Discipology users in Michigan to reflect on how her thinking and practice have shifted. She asked to remain unnamed, but what follows are her words.
Before Discipology, she described her approach to disciple making this way: “someone with a lot of expectation in others and their walk with God. On my timing, not our Father’s.”
There was passion. There was urgency. But there was also pressure, an internal clock that did not always match the pace of the Father. That is where the shift began.
“My attitude in how I disciple and my patience,” she said, when asked what changed most. Discipology did not simply give her new tools. It reshaped her posture. Her timing began to yield to God’s timing.
One of the biggest tensions she has been working through is simple and universal. Time—how much to invest, how quickly to expect growth, how long to walk with someone before seeing fruit. Discipology has not removed the limits of time, but it has reframed how she inhabits it.
Right now, she is investing in two very different communities. “I am currently discipling two communities: teens and single moms.”
Those spaces require different rhythms, different conversations, and different sensitivities. But at the center of both is shared life.
One story, in particular, captures what has begun to multiply. “My nephew is a new believer that, just over one year ago, I started walking with,” she said. “We read scripture together, broke bread together, and really dug into who God is.”
It started small. Scripture. Meals. Honest questions about the character of God.
“When I was introduced to the app, Through the Word, in our Discipology training, I encouraged my nephews to start a reading group together,” she said. “This has now blossomed with one of my nephews showing friends at a public school to seven groups of kids learning about scripture and our Creator.”
Seven groups of kids (not seven kids).
What began as one aunt walking patiently with one new believer has multiplied into clusters of students reading Scripture together in a public school setting. The shift was not flashy. It was relational, steady, and intentional.
When asked how she would describe Discipology to another leader on the front lines, her answer was simple: “it helps you understand how to do life with someone better and be more intentional.”
Disciple making is not a curriculum rollout or a large event. It is Scripture opened at a table. It is bread broken. It is patience learned. It is one new believer becoming the kind of person who gathers others around the Word.
And it is still unfolding.
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