devotion hardcore

For one hour a week we seek out one or two other guys. This is the real journey. We ask each other what is going on. This is how we build real friendships. It's brutal. It's barbarian. No subject is off limits.

Some common subjects being discussed at the table in the picture - Death,betrayal, sweating blood, money, evil, risk, and what to do next.

I imagine each disciple that hung out with Jesus gravitated toward one or two of the other guys and called them his closer buddies.  I assume this happens with us too. Those should be the guys in your dgroup.

In a dgroup:

We check in on our friends

We ask each other how our connection with Jesus is.  Primarily how our prayer is going.  Are we mad at Him?  Did he not come through for one of us?  Did one of us get screwed by this Christianity thing? Are we discontent with the stuff He gave us?  Are we hearing from Him?  What's He saying?

We suffer exposure on purpose

This is where our knuckles get bloody.  We arrest sin by granularly confessing temptations, junk and screw ups.

We read His Word

Weekly, we crank through half books of the Bible at a time.  If we don't read it all by the next dgroup, we all re-read it again.  Those that read first get the benefit of re-reading.

We chase the one that got lost

We choose one person that we know who isn't following Jesus and we chase them in prayer.  We ask each other about how this is going.

Growth:

We start with two guys.  Eventually, other guys are added.  Once a D-group hits four guys, we split into two groups.  There is no program or formula to contain this.  It stays real simple and organic.

To download a printable copy of the D-group framework in .pdf format, click here.

Deeper:

After doing this for a while your hunger and desires explode and you naturally want to go deeper. To take your dgroup to the next level check this out.