Discipleship that moves, from hearing to doing.
People are formed by doing, together.
Doersteps is a discipleship platform built on a simple conviction: people grow when they practice their faith in relationship, not just when they consume good content. Curriculum, groups, and real accountability, in one place.
Built for churches, campus ministries, and disciple-making communities of every kind. In use at Chi Alpha at Texas State.
Phase 2 · The Spirit
He's Been There
Tempted in every way
He knows the pressure. Not as a theory about people, but as a Tuesday he actually lived.
Discuss
Where in your week do you most need that to be true?
Doer Step
Unlocks Lesson 7Ask one person this week what they are actually carrying, and don't try to fix it.
Your leader confirms this before the next lesson opens.
It's easy to consume faith. It's harder to live it.
There's never been more good content, and yet people can consume all of it and still feel stuck. Not because the teaching is bad, but because information was never meant to do the work of formation, and formation was never meant to happen alone.
Where growth actually happens.
Not all time is equal. Consuming alone, watching, scrolling, reading by yourself, is where most of us default. Creating together is where we come alive, and where we're changed. Discipleship works the same way, and every doerstep is built to move people there.
Read the methodology behind itFaith you practice, not just finish.
Each lesson can close however you choose, a question, a reflection, or more. And the heart of Doersteps is the doerstep: a real action, confirmed by a real person. You've heard the old pattern, I do, you watch; you do, I watch. That progression is built in, so people don't just learn to lead. They practice it before they're handed the title.
The product
Four of the screens, with the names changed. Nothing here is a concept drawing.
Your leader · Chi Alpha at Texas State
How did Tuesday go? You said you were going to ask Marcus to lunch.
I did! Genuinely terrifying for about four seconds and then it was just lunch.
He asked why I actually believe any of it. I didn't have a tidy answer.
That's a better outcome than a tidy answer. Want to work on that one together before you see him again?
Messages between a pair stay between the pair. Staff can see that a conversation is happening, not what is in it.
Waiting on you
3 to verify- A. TrejoAsk one person what they're carrying2 days agoVerify
- D. MirelesInvite someone to Thursday nightyesterdayVerify
- K. OseiPray with one person out loudthis morningVerify
A step is finished when a person says it happened, never when a box is ticked.
Chi Alpha at Texas State
48 people- A. TrejoStudentLesson 6 · paired
- D. MirelesStudentLesson 3 · paired
- R. SalasInternLeads two
- K. OseiStudentNo leader yet
The roster surfaces the person nobody is walking with, because that is the one thing a list of names usually hides.
Coming up
- Sound desk · Sunday gatheringSun 9:30amAcceptCan't
- Kids check-in · WednesdayAcceptedNeeds the Safe Gathering course · complete
A serve team can require a course before someone runs the desk. So training is discipleship, not a sign-up sheet.
Every group deserves a discipleship track, not just a group chat.
From a first visit to a leadership role, Doersteps holds it together: groups, curriculum, one-on-ones, chat, attendance, and milestones. Whatever path your community uses to grow people, you can build it here, and see who's moving along it.
See who it works forWhat is in it
A step is finished when a person says so
A step is something done in the world: a conversation, an invitation, a prayer. When a lesson asks for one, the next lesson waits until a leader confirms it happened. No box to tick, no autograded quiz standing in for formation.
Pairs, not a cohort
Each person is walked with by somebody who knows their name. The pair has its own thread; staff can see that a conversation is happening and never what is in it.
Courses you write, in your words
Write or import a pathway, break it into phases and parts, attach a worksheet, and publish a version. Your campus's vocabulary (doer step, huddle, coach, whatever you call it) replaces ours everywhere it appears.
Serve teams are discipleship too
Sound desk, ProPresenter, kids check-in, parking. A position can require a course before somebody runs it, and the rota asks people rather than assigning them.
Groups, attendance, and a calendar
Ministries and small groups with their own rosters, recurring events, and attendance taken by roster or by headcount, so the census a district asks for is a by-product, not a spreadsheet night.
Roles your campus defines
Student, leader, intern, staff, and any rung between them. What each may do is data, not code, and nobody can grant more than they hold.
Figures travel up, records never do
A campus publishes counts to its district deliberately. Nobody upstream can open a person's record. The platform itself cannot, and there is a test that proves it.
Their own record, theirs to take
One page, one download: the steps they took, who walked with them and who confirmed them. Close an account and it is anonymised after ninety days, with the campus keeping only that the steps happened.
Built for people, including minors
Access is decided in the database, not in a menu, so a screen somebody was not meant to see does not merely stay hidden, it returns nothing. Every campus is sealed from every other campus by the same mechanism.
Anyone can raise a concern about anyone, confidentially, and it escalates on a clock. Who read what is written down. Session recording is switched off, on purpose, because the screens contain what people wrote about their own lives.
Where it actually is
Live now
Courses, lessons, doer steps and verification. Pairs and pair messaging. Reflections. Groups, events and attendance. Serve teams and rotas. Roles, permission sets and agreements. Audit log, concerns and escalation. Data export and account closure.
Next
Planning Center People import, notification delivery on a schedule, reporting rollups for districts, and course templates a network can share.
Not yet, and we will say so
Billing is dormant until there is a company and a bank account behind it. There is no AI writing anybody's discipleship, and there will not be.
From hearers to doers.
Start free
Doersteps costs nothing while it is in beta. We are taking a small number of campuses at a time, because the first thing we do with a new one is sit down and build their pathway with them. Leave an address and we will write when there is a slot.