Be Kingdom Builders
Restoring Disciples
Restoring Disciples is a 52-week discipleship program for Christian men, offered by Be Kingdom Builders. This page states plainly what kind of help this program is, what kind it is not, and what it asks of your body, before you enroll or continue.
Restoring Disciples is spiritual discipleship and pastoral ministry. It is teaching, written assignments, a weekly live call, and personal review of your written work, built around Scripture and prayer.
It is not psychotherapy, professional counseling, medical treatment, or a substitute for any of them. Nothing in this program is delivered under a mental health, medical, or counseling license, because it is not that kind of program.
Mitchell Beecher leads this program not as an ordained or licensed pastor, but as a follower of Christ walking in the authority Jesus gave His followers, and as a discipler. He is not a licensed counselor, therapist, psychologist, psychiatrist, or social worker, and nothing in this program is delivered under any such license.
This program does not diagnose, treat, or cure any medical or mental health condition. Nothing taught, written, or said here is medical or psychiatric advice.
If you are under the care of a physician, a licensed therapist, or a psychiatrist, stay under that care. Do not stop a medication, discontinue a treatment plan, or cancel an appointment because of anything in this program.
Some things are outside what this program can responsibly handle, and are referred out rather than ministered to inside the program: active suicidality or thoughts of harming yourself, psychosis, current abuse, addiction requiring medical detox, and trauma beyond the competence of this program.
The mechanism for a referral is Mitchell's own judgment in the moment. A referral is not a judgment about you and does not end your enrollment.
If you are in immediate danger, or thinking about harming yourself or someone else, call 988 or 911. Do not wait for a response from this program. Messages sent to Be Kingdom Builders are not monitored around the clock, and this program is not a crisis service.
This program teaches that the Holy Spirit is active today, and that divine healing and deliverance from spiritual bondage are part of Christ's redemptive work. That belief shapes real parts of this program, including a scheduled Freedom Session.
That belief does not substitute for medical or mental health treatment, and it is never presented as if it does. Deliverance and healing prayer are offered as spiritual ministry, alongside licensed care where licensed care is needed, never as a replacement for it.
No result is promised, spiritual, emotional, or otherwise. Not freedom, not healing, not a changed marriage, not a changed circumstance. What is offered is the teaching, the structure, the review of your written work, and the Freedom Session itself.
Restoring Disciples asks men to do three physical things: move, drink water, and fast. None of the three is safe in the same form for every man. This section names who that applies to, states what he does instead, and states plainly that he does not need anyone's permission to do it.
The single rule underneath all of it: a man decides this for himself, using what he already knows about his own body, his own diagnosis, his own prescriptions, his own history, and his own medical advice from a medical professional. He does not ask this program first, and this program does not ask him to explain.
The Daily Watch itself is three items: 15 minutes of prayer, 15 minutes in the Word, and one honest message to your triad. None of the three carries a physical component. Movement (15 minutes) and water (100 oz) are a published, recommended baseline, not scored and not required.
Men under a physician-directed fluid restriction. Some men are medically required to limit how much they drink: kidney disease, dialysis, congestive heart failure, or another condition managed in part by a prescribed daily fluid limit. For a man in this category, treating 100 oz as a safe daily floor is not a caring assumption, it is a wrong one. He follows his own number. This program does not know it and does not ask for it.
Men medically unable to move for 15 minutes. Recovering from surgery, an acute injury, a flare of a chronic condition, or under a physician's direction to rest. This program does not ask a man to push through a physician's restriction, and does not need to know his diagnosis, his surgery, or his prognosis.
One fast day per gate, on the week before it closes, weeks 12, 25, 38 and 51, plus a heavier fast at week 24. Three groups carry risk this program names plainly rather than assumes away.
Diabetics. A full day without food changes blood sugar in ways an ordinary day does not, and diabetes medication is frequently dosed against the assumption that you are eating on a normal schedule. Removing that assumption for a full day carries a real risk of hypoglycemia. This is not a claim about your specific case, your specific medication, or your specific numbers. It is why this decision is never made by this program on your behalf.
Men on any medication. Many medications behave differently, or carry different side effects, when taken on an empty stomach or off their usual schedule. This program does not know what you take, how it interacts with fasting, or what your prescriber would say. That is precisely why the rule is not "ask us for an exception." The rule is that you already know, or your prescriber does, and you act on that knowledge without asking anyone here first.
Men with any history of an eating disorder. A full-day food fast asks a man to practice restriction, control of intake, and a felt experience of hunger, on a schedule, as a spiritual discipline. For a man with any history of an eating disorder, those same mechanics can function as relapse triggers rather than as spiritual formation, regardless of how much time has passed or how recovered he considers himself. This program does not ask that trade of him, and does not need him to justify why.
Men in active addiction requiring medical detox. A man in this situation should not be cleared for a food fast until a clinician has weighed in, and that judgment is Mitchell's own call rather than a written category to check against. He uses the alternative below by default. The same man may also be under a fluid or movement restriction during detox or early recovery, independently of the fasting question.
There is no exception process because there is no exception being made. There is no form to submit, no note required, and no committee that reviews the request.
This program states plainly, in the words already in the participant agreement:
"a man who skips it for medical reasons has not failed anything."
And on the Watch itself:
"The Watch is a practice, not a condition of standing. Binary on the behavior. Grace on the record. A man who breaks the streak has lost the streak and nothing else. He restarts the count, not his sonship."
Using any alternative in this section, for any of the reasons above, carries no pastoral or program consequence, of any kind, at any point in the program.
Nothing to substitute and nothing to log. Neither item is scored. If you are under a fluid restriction, your number is your prescriber's number, not this program's. If you cannot safely move, you do not move, and you are not asked to manufacture a lesser version of it to satisfy anything. Nobody is tracking either one, and neither one reaches your triad, your gate review, or anyone else as a different kind of day.
Everything below applies equally to weeks 12, 25, 38, and 51, and to the heavier fast at week 24. If you are using this alternative, you are not doing a smaller version of the week. You are doing the version built for you.
Why an alternative exists at all. Fasting in this program is never a floating discipline. It is preparation for a crossing. Ezra fasted to seek a right way before the road to Jerusalem (Ezra 8:21). Israel fasted before the tide turned against Benjamin (Judges 20:26). Esther fasted before she walked into a room that could have killed her (Esther 4:16). Each fast sits on the front side of something you are about to do: submit thirty days of evidence, close out a gate, walk into the Freedom Session. The food was never the point. The crossing is the point.
That means your alternative has to do the same work the food fast does. It has to cost you something, put you in front of God for longer than an ordinary day, and leave you standing at the same door every other man is standing at when Saturday's submission is due.
The extended prayer and Word block. On your fast day, in place of the Watch's ordinary 15 minutes of prayer and 15 minutes in the Word, hold an extended block instead: 45 minutes of prayer, followed by 45 minutes in the Word. Ninety minutes total, three times the length of an ordinary day's two blocks combined. This is not your whole day. It replaces one day's ordinary prayer-and-Word time with a block heavy enough to carry what the day is for.
Anchor the Word half in that week's spine text:
The non-food discipline. The prayer and Word block is not the whole of it. A food fast costs you your whole day. You need a second component that costs you something real, in a different currency. Choose one before the day starts, name it specifically, and complete it. An undefined intention to sacrifice something is not this discipline. A named cost, paid, is.
What is still due. The alternative changes nothing about the submission. Week 12's thirty-day log, week 25's audit of private religion, week 38's answer about who has talked you down, week 51's account of the cost, and week 24's stronghold document seven days ahead of the session. You cross into that submission the same way a man who fasted with food does: having spent the day in front of God, having paid a real cost, ready to put in writing what the week asked of you. Nothing on your gate review names which one you did.