A complete discipleship system for leading intentional preteen and youth ministry

Free Deep Discipleship Lessons for Your Youth Ministry

Free Deep Discipleship Lessons for Your Youth Ministry

What if your students wanted more?

Most youth pastors have asked the same question:

How do I help students move beyond attending youth group and actually become lifelong followers of Jesus?

We all want students who know the Bible, live out their faith, share the Gospel, and make disciples. But that kind of spiritual growth doesn’t happen through entertainment alone. It requires intentional discipleship.

That’s why we created Deep Discipleship.

What Is Deep Discipleship?

Deep discipleship is more than another Bible study. It’s a philosophy of ministry that helps students develop a faith that lasts.

Instead of simply learning about Jesus, students learn to follow Jesus.

That means they learn to:

  • Study the Bible for themselves.
  • Build consistent spiritual habits.
  • Understand and defend their faith.
  • Live on mission every day.
  • Develop Christlike character.
  • Influence others as disciple-makers.

Our goal isn’t just to fill students with information. It’s to help them experience transformation.

Try Four Free Lessons

The best way to understand Deep Discipleship is to experience it.

That’s why we’re giving you four complete lessons absolutely free.

These aren’t sample outlines or incomplete previews. They’re real lessons that you can teach in your youth ministry this week.

  • Each lesson includes everything you need:
  • Biblical teaching
  • Small group discussion questions
  • Student application
  • Leader notes
  • Easy-to-use format

Whether you’re leading a small group, Sunday school, midweek gathering, or discipleship group, these lessons are ready to use.

What Makes These Lessons Different?

Most curriculum asks, “What should students know?”

Deep Discipleship also asks, “Who are they becoming?”

Every lesson is intentionally designed to move students toward spiritual maturity by helping them:

  • Think biblically.
  • Love God more deeply.
  • Practice spiritual disciplines.
  • Live out their faith with confidence.
  • Take ownership of their relationship with Christ.

Because information without transformation isn’t discipleship.

Built for Real Youth Ministries

We’ve spent decades working alongside youth pastors in churches of every size.

We know what it’s like to prepare lessons every week, recruit volunteers, disciple students with different levels of spiritual maturity, and wonder if real growth is actually happening.

That’s why these lessons are:

  • Easy to prepare.
  • Engaging for students.
  • Grounded in Scripture.
  • Focused on life change.
  • Designed for meaningful discussion.

Our desire is simple: help you spend less time creating curriculum and more time discipling students.

A Small Taste of a Bigger Vision

These four lessons are just the beginning.

Deep Discipleship is a complete strategy for helping students build a faith that lasts long after graduation. As students progress, they’ll develop biblical literacy, spiritual disciplines, leadership skills, apologetics, a heart for God’s mission, and the confidence to disciple others.

Because the goal isn’t simply to survive high school.

The goal is to prepare students to follow Christ for the rest of their lives.

Download Your Free Lessons

If you’re looking for curriculum that challenges students to grow deeper—not just stay busy—we’d love for you to experience Deep Discipleship for yourself.

Download your four free Deep Discipleship lessons today and see why churches across the country are using Deep Discipleship to help students develop a faith that lasts.

We hope these lessons encourage your students, strengthen your ministry, and give you a glimpse of what deep discipleship can become in your church.

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Try Deep Discipleship Students

Deep Discipleship Students is a complete curriculum and system with everything you need for ministry to junior high and high school students.

  • Bible-based Teaching with Graphics and Videos
  • Fun and Intentional Programming that covers your whole year
  • Volunteer Resources to help you build a Relational Volunteer Team
  • Tools that equip parents as the primary faith influencers at home
  • Leadership Training to prepare your students to live on mission
  • Bible-based Teaching with Graphics and Videos
  • Fun and Intentional Programming that covers your whole year
  • Volunteer Resources to help you build a Relational Volunteer Team
  • Tools that equip parents as the primary faith influencers at home
  • Leadership Training to prepare your students to live on mission

Doug Franklin

Doug Franklin is the president of LeaderTreks, an innovative leadership development organization focusing on students and youth workers. Doug and his wife, Angie, live in West Chicago, Illinois. They don’t have any kids, but they have 2 dogs that think they are children. Diesel and Penelope are Weimaraners who never leave their side. Doug grew up in Illinois and graduated from Wheaton College with a degree in Christian Education. He started in youth ministry as a adult volunteer, leading a small group of junior high boys. The experience shaped the way Doug thinks about youth ministry and how students learn. After spending six years as a volunteer, Doug become the full-time high school youth pastor at a church in Wheaton, Illinois. He served as a youth pastor for 12 years in various churches. As Doug thought about what was really working in youth ministry, he came to the conclusion that everything becomes more effective when students lead. So in 1994, Doug started LeaderTreks to partner with youth workers to help them develop their students as leaders. In 2003 LeaderTreks added leadership training for youth workers. It started with five youth workers coming to LeaderTreks for intense training and grew into LeaderTreks’ Refuel Retreats. Doug understands that being a youth worker requires us to lead students, adult volunteers, parents, and church leaders. He wants to help youth workers lead well and to see them become more effective for the purpose of helping students love God.

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