The men’s discipleship resources at PursueGOD.org are free conversation starters for men’s groups, one-on-one mentoring and dads talking with their sons. The simplest way to use them is the FLEX method: find a topic, learn about it ahead of time and explore it in conversation. From there, follow a clear path to engage, establish and empower other men.
Why Men Need Discipleship
If you’re a man, God has placed a calling on your life to lead, starting with your own walk with him and extending to your family, your church and your community. Too many men are content to sit on the sidelines and leave spiritual leadership to someone else. Biblical manhood isn’t about being loud or domineering. It’s about taking responsibility, loving sacrificially and following Jesus with courage.
Most men don’t grow by accident. They grow when another man walks alongside them, asks real questions and helps them apply God’s Word to everyday life. That’s what PursueGOD’s resources for men are designed to do: provide short, practical topics that give guys something meaningful to talk about.
1 Corinthians 16:13-14 Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. Do everything in love.
Paul’s charge to the church in Corinth sounds like a call to arms, but it ends with love. Strength and courage matter, yet they’re meant to serve others. That’s the kind of man these resources aim to help you become, and the kind of man they help you raise up in others.
Use the FLEX Method
The FLEX method is a simple way to run a men’s group or a one-on-one meeting. First, find a topic. The site includes topics on manhood, marriage, parenting, temptation, work and much more, so choose one that fits a real need in your life or your group.
Second, learn about it ahead of time. This step flips the usual approach, much like what teachers call “flipping the classroom,” where students take in the lesson on their own and then come together to work through it. Each man reads the article or listens to the podcast lesson before the meeting, as many times as he needs. Third, explore it in conversation. Because everyone came prepared, the time together isn’t spent on a lecture but on talking honestly about what the topic means for real life.
Proverbs 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
Men sharpen each other when they talk honestly about God’s Word and push each other to live it out. The discussion questions at the end of each topic are there to help that happen, even if you’ve never led a group before.
Engage, Establish and Empower
Beyond a single conversation, PursueGOD offers a simple three-step path for making disciples. First, engage the man you’d like to disciple. Discipleship is really relationship, so start by meeting a need, sharing a topic that speaks to his situation or simply inviting him to talk.
Second, establish him in the Christian faith by walking through The Pursuit, a series that covers the essentials of following Jesus. Third, empower him to become a disciple-maker himself. The goal isn’t to create followers of you but to raise up men who will invest in others.
2 Timothy 2:2 And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.
This is generational discipleship: Paul to Timothy, Timothy to reliable people, and those people to others. You don’t have to feel fully qualified to start. If you follow Jesus and are willing to share what you’ve learned, you can help another man take his next step, and you’ll grow along the way.
The Takeaway
Using the men’s discipleship resources at PursueGOD.org is as simple as FLEX: find a topic, learn about it ahead of time and explore it together. Then engage a man, establish him in the faith and empower him to make disciples too, so the next generation of men is ready to lead.
