No. We are a para-church organization, which means we are not sourced by the church, but we aim for the upbuilding of the local church. We love to partner with local churches and come alongside them in their efforts to establish a thriving groups ministry. For more information on our church partnerships, click here.

We do! Check out our Beliefs page for more info.

We understand that certain circumstances occasionally prevent people from being church members for a short time, and we want to respect the time it may take to locate the right church for you when you're in a new area. In trusting this season will be short for you, it's fine for you to join D-Group before joining a church. Sometimes other D-Group members can even help you in your search! In this instance, please be forthcoming and honest about your search, and keep in touch with your Leader (if you're a member) or with us (if you're a Leader) about how this process is unfolding for you.

We use the term “Shares” to refer to the $25 registration fee all returning members pay for each 6-week session. We’ve borrowed this terminology from the investment world, where people invest and see a return on that investment; we believe the same will be true for you here!

Shares are waived for all first-time members during their first session. Shares are submitted securely during the Registration process in our web store.

Shares cover the curriculum for each session and the expense of running D-Group, including the paid team and dozens of volunteer Fellows, whose Shares are waived.

D-Group is mostly gender-specific. There are a few reasons behind that decision, three of which are:

A) Splitting genders helps guard against a “meat market” mentality, where people join only to find prospects for dating/marriage (instead of to learn more about God). It also helps us avoid the awkwardness or division that can erupt if a breakup or other relational difficulty occurs in a co-ed study.

B) Our topics and discussions are typically deeper than the average home group conversation, and they have the capacity (and intention) to create deep relationships quickly. Because of that, a co-ed group has the potential to create a variety of distractions and challenges that make focusing on God's Word difficult.

C) In many settings (and particularly religious or theological ones), one gender tends to drive the conversation. Either the women dominate the conversation and the men sit by passively, or the men talk and the women don't speak up. Dividing the genders helps us avoid that potential problem and gives everyone a place to speak up and speak freely.

In light of the above, we’ve prayerfully decided to begin offering Co-Ed Married D-Groups for our Church Partner affiliated D-Groups. We want to provide an opportunity for husbands and wives to participate side-by-side in the same studies offered for same gendered D-Groups. We believe our Church Partner D-Groups will provide the careful shepherding required within co-ed settings. Please visit our Church Partnership Page for more information.

All our D-Groups do the same study, memorize the same verses, and see the same weekly video content (delivered by a woman for the Women's D-Groups and by a man for the Men's D-Groups), and have the same weekly application steps.

Because D-Group holds to a complementarian viewpoint, we want to affirm our position on the role of D-Group's leadership: the curriculum (including the weekly video and any podcasts or study materials) are simply tools administered by the Leaders. D-Group is not affiliated with a specific church, and our leadership team has no spiritual authority over our members.