You Weren't Made
to grow alone.
Sunday mornings are where we gather, worship, and get equipped. But the real transformation happens in the smaller spaces — around tables, in living rooms, over open Bibles, in relationships where people actually know your name and your story.
At Ashe Alliance, discipleship isn't a program you attend. It's the way followers of Jesus actually live. Jesus didn't hand His disciples a curriculum — He brought them into His life and said follow me. That's still the model. That's still the mission.
What We Mean
by discipleship.
The word disciple simply means learner — someone who is actively following Jesus, being shaped by His Word, and living that out in relationship with others. At AAC, we believe every follower of Jesus is called to two things.
Have a Paul.
Someone further down the road who is intentionally investing in you — speaking truth, asking hard questions, pointing you to Scripture.
Have a Timothy.
Someone you are intentionally pouring into — walking with them, modeling what it looks like to follow Jesus, sending them out to do the same.
That pattern — receiving and giving, being poured into and pouring out — is how the church has always grown. It's what Jesus modeled with twelve ordinary people. It's the Great Commission in action: go, make disciples, teach them to obey — and trust that the Spirit does what only the Spirit can do.
One more thing worth saying clearly: what's on this page are not programs. Programs can run without you. Discipleship cannot. What you'll find here are relationships — intentional, rooted in Scripture, and moving toward the same goal: people who know Christ and multiply that in others.
"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations… teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you." Matthew 28:19–20
Foundations
track.
A Six-Session Starting Point
Before you pick a pathway, there's a starting line. If you're newer to faith — or you've been in church for years but never really worked through the basics — the Foundations Track is where we begin.
Foundations is a six-session journey through the core questions every believer needs to be able to answer.
Who Is God?
Who Is Jesus?
What Is the Bible?
What Is Prayer?
What Is the Church?
What Is a Disciple?
Foundations isn't a class. It's a conversation — designed to happen one-on-one, in a small group, or as a self-paced printed guide. Each session includes Scripture, a few pointed discussion questions, a simple practice to do during the week, and a guided prayer. Leaders can also use it as a video series.
Session 6 closes with one question that doesn't let you sit still: Who are you making a disciple? That's the whole point — not to acquire knowledge, but to become someone who multiplies what they've received. The Great Commission isn't the pastor's job. It's every believer's calling.
"And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also." 2 Timothy 2:2
Five Ways
to go deeper.
Once you've completed Foundations — or if you're already rooted in the faith — these five pathways are where discipleship gets lived out. None of them are programs. Each one is a relationship, or a set of relationships, built around the Word. You don't have to choose just one. You don't have to start at Pathway 1. Start where you are — and then keep going.
Life Groups
Smaller. More personal. The place where you stop being a face in a crowd.
Sunday mornings are where the whole church gathers. Life Groups are where you actually belong. These are small groups of 8–16 people who meet outside of Sunday — in homes, at the church, or wherever works — to study God's Word together, share what's really going on in their lives, and support each other through it.
Every week, each Life Group leader gets a sermon-based guide through our Deep Dive tool — built specifically to help groups go deeper into Sunday's message with discussion questions, a 5-day devotional, prayer prompts, and more. You'll never come to your group empty-handed.
Life Groups are open — there's always room for someone new. They are the ongoing community where people begin to discover that they have a Paul in their life, and that someone is looking to them as a Timothy. If you've been attending AAC for a few weeks and you're ready to go beyond Sunday, a Life Group is the natural next step.
Discipleship Groups
Smaller still. Higher accountability. This is where real growth happens.
If Life Groups are where you belong, Discipleship Groups are where you grow. These are intentionally small — four people of the same gender — meeting regularly to study Scripture together and hold each other accountable in their walk with Jesus.
There's no hiding in a group of four. Everyone comes prepared. Everyone shows up. Everyone is honest about where they're struggling and where God is working. These groups are closed once formed — the same four people commit to each other for a season — because trust takes time and real growth requires both.
This is one of the most transformative commitments you can make at Ashe Alliance. It's not for people who want to dip a toe in — it's for people who are serious about being shaped by Scripture and sharpened by community. Every mature believer in a D-Group should also be praying about who God is calling them to pour into. The goal is never just personal growth. It's always growth that overflows into others.
Bible Studies
Larger. Structured. A weekly anchor in the Word with your people.
Sometimes you need more than a Sunday sermon to go deep in a book of the Bible. AAC's Men's and Women's Bible Studies meet weekly and go verse-by-verse through Scripture together — asking hard questions, wrestling with the text, and learning from each other.
These are larger groups than Life Groups or D-Groups, which makes them a great on-ramp — a lower-barrier way to get into Scripture with others and start building relationships before stepping into something more intimate. Both studies are open to anyone, at any stage of faith.
A note on purpose: these studies aren't about becoming Bible trivia champions. They're about being shaped by the Word so you can bring that Word to bear in your family, your relationships, and your community. Disciples make disciples. The Bible study is where that formation happens — not where it ends.
Paul-Timothy Program
One-on-one. The most direct expression of the Great Commission we offer.
This is the most direct expression of our discipleship mission: one person intentionally investing in another, one-on-one, over time. No stage, no classroom — just a Paul and a Timothy, an open Bible, and the work of the Spirit.
Jesus spent three years with twelve people. Paul wrote to Timothy, "What you have heard from me… entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also." That's four generations of discipleship in one sentence. It's the blueprint. And it still works.
The PT Program is how we formalize and facilitate that at AAC. A mentor and mentee meet regularly — usually weekly or biweekly — to read Scripture together, pray, ask hard questions, and talk honestly about life. Whether you feel ready to be a mentor or you know you need one, we want to help make that connection. Every mature believer at Ashe Alliance is encouraged to be in a PT relationship. This is not an add-on to discipleship. It is discipleship.
Family Discipleship
Equipping parents to be the primary disciple-makers in their home.
The most important discipleship relationship your child will ever have isn't with a youth pastor or a Sunday school teacher. It's with you. Scripture says it plainly: parents are the primary disciple-makers in the home. The church's job is to equip you for that — not to do it for you.
Each week, after Sunday's sermon, a Family Discipleship Guide is generated through our Deep Dive tool — a free resource available to every AAC family. It includes a simple summary your kids can understand, dinner table questions designed for real conversation, a 5-day family devotional, family prayer prompts, and practical ways to take the Sunday message into your week together.
This isn't a program that runs in the background. It's a weekly rhythm of opening God's Word in your home — with your kids watching, asking questions, and learning what it looks like for a parent to be a disciple. That's generational faithfulness. That's the Great Commission starting in the living room.
The Family Discipleship Guide
Devotions, dinner questions, and prayer prompts — updated every week after Sunday's service. Free for all AAC families.
Tell us where
to start.
Tell us which pathway interests you and we'll connect you with the right person to take the next step. No commitment required — just a conversation.
Sundays Are the Huddle.
The rest of the week is the playing field.
Sunday morning, you get equipped. The Word is opened, the body gathers, and you're sent back out. But discipleship — real discipleship — happens in the other six days. In the living room with your kids. Across the table from someone further down the road. In the honest conversation with three others who know your real life. These pathways are how you stop watching the game from the sideline and start playing it.
"All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work." 2 Timothy 3:16–17