Most men agree discipleship matters. Few know what to do when two men sit down together. Let me walk you through a session. An hour, two Bibles open, a friendship growing. It starts and ends with prayer.

Start With Prayer

Start with prayer. Not a quick blessing, but real prayer. Pray for him by name, his family, his work, his struggles. Let him hear you talk to the Father about him. Prayer is not a formality. It is how you begin everything that matters. When you pray first, you say without saying it: we need the Lord in this room before we open His Book.

Teach Him to Read His Bible Every Day

The heart of the session is the Bible he read this week. Teach him to read it every day and get something from it each time. Not rushing chapters. Meeting God in a passage and carrying one truth away.

Here is the first rule. Don't ask him to do anything you aren't doing. If you want him reading every day, you read every day. If you want a written record, you keep one too. Discipleship is never do as I say. It is to do as I do.

Second, you will be accountable to him as he is to you. He gets to ask what you read and what God showed you. That honesty keeps you both straight and tells him he matters. He is not a project. He is a brother.

Read the same passage he reads. Walk the same road together, not different books. Ask him to keep a written record each day, three things only. Date and text. What the passage says. How he can apply it to his life. Keep it short and plain, just enough to show he met God that day.

Then discuss what he read the past week. Ask what stood out and what confused him. Motivate him to keep reading so he gets something from the Word each day, not just to check a box. The goal is a man who loves his Bible because he met his Father in it.

Talk About What He Heard on Sunday

Have him take notes on the pastor's messages and Sunday school, and bring them to your session. Talk about what he does not understand. There is no shame in that question. The disciples did the same thing.

After Jesus told the parable of the sower, His disciples came privately and said, "Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field." Matthew 13:36 They did not pretend they understood. They asked, and He explained. Your disciple needs the same freedom. When he says, "I did not get that," you have found the place where teaching happens.

Go over the week's verse together. One verse, learned well, beats ten skimmed. Help him say it, understand it, and carry it into his week.

Each week, have him memorize five books of the Bible until he has them all and can find passages on his own. Five a week is small enough to do and big enough to matter. A man who can find his way around his Bible will use it. A man who cannot will leave it on the shelf.

Ask What He Is Dealing With

Before the lesson, ask what he is dealing with or what questions he has, so you can help him with Scripture. This is where it gets real.

Maybe his marriage is strained. Maybe his boss is unfair. Maybe his teenager is drifting, or his temper got the best of him again. Do not rush past that for your material. Open the Bible to his life, not just your lesson plan. Show him the Word speaks to his Tuesday, not only his Sunday. When a man sees God has something to say about his actual problem, his Bible stops being a textbook and becomes a lifeline.

Take the Lesson, and Do Not Rush It

Now take the lesson of the week for the remainder of your time. Do not move on until he understands it and owns it. You are not in a hurry to cover material or finish the book. Your goal is to love him and help him in his personal and family life.

If the lesson takes two weeks, let it take two weeks. If he wrestles with one truth for a session, it was not wasted. It was the work. A man who understands one truth will go further than a man who half learned ten.

Give him homework for next week. Reading, a verse, five books, something clear and doable. Close in prayer, the way you opened. Thank God for him. Pray over what you talked about. Send him out knowing he was prayed for, not just taught.

Build the Friendship

One more thing, and it may matter most. Work at the friendship. Spend time with him at church, before and after, so he is woven into its life.

Discipleship does not happen only across a table. It happens in hallways, over coffee, in parking lots after the service. Introduce him to other men, and let him belong. A man who has friends in a church will stay. A man who only has a teacher will drift when the lessons end.

So that is the session. Prayer. The Bible he read all week. Questions from Sunday. A verse, five books, an honest talk about his life. A lesson taken slowly, homework given kindly, prayer to close. All inside a friendship growing at church and beyond. It is not complicated or fast. But it is how a man learns to walk with God, one week at a time, with another man beside him. A work worth giving your life to.