Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
About One on One with God

What is One on One with God?

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A Path that leads to knowing Jesus personally,

  A Lifestyle of walking daily in intimate fellowship with Him,

    A Tool for making disciples and producing disciple-makers.

How does One on One with God work?

• Meet once a week for fifteen consecutive weeks.
  
  
  • Why fifteen weeks?
    
    
    • They say it takes fifteen weeks to build patterns into our lives or to establish a lifestyle.
      
      
  • Why consecutive weeks?
    
    
    • To maintain momentum.
      
      
  • Allow two hours for each session.
    
    
    • Why two hours instead of less time?
      
      
      • It generally takes two hours to cover all of the material and give everyone an opportunity to participate and learn how to do the things we are challenging them to do.
        
        
  • Meet in small groups with a leader and no more than six disciples.

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What if you don’t have the ideal situation described above?

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What are some examples of less than ideal situations where you have taken people through One on One with God?

Twice we have discipled more than seventy people in small groups over an eight-week period by meeting with each group twice a week.

Once, in a one-week “J-term” in seminary, we took a group through One on One with God, completing our full thirty hours over a five-day period.

If you have only a twelve-week period in which to disciple, you can cover the first nine sessions once a week, allowing two hours for each session. For your final three meetings, meet for three hours instead of two hours, and in each meeting cover two sessions.

Example:

Meeting 10—cover the material for sessions ten and eleven.

Meeting 11—cover the material for sessions twelve and thirteen.

Meeting 12—cover the material for sessions fourteen and fifteen.

The key—is to adapt to the situation without sacrificing the time needed for God to produce strong disciples and disciple-makers through you.

But remember—the ideal is to meet for fifteen consecutive weeks, for two hours each week

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What if the people I am discipling are not making disciples?

Continue to pray for and encourage your disciples to make disciples, but remember that we go out in the energy of and under the control of the Holy Spirit, and we leave the results to God. He is the One who must illuminate their minds and convict their hearts to make disciples.