The Disciple Maker‘s Podcast
The Disciple Makers Podcast exists to tell stories about disciples of Jesus who make disciples. Discipleship.org, who sponsors the podcast, exists to Champion Jesus‘ way of disciple making. Episodes are published in thematic seasons. To learn more, visit www.discipleship.org or email us at info@discipleship.org.
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Episodes
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Doug Burrier of Sustainable Discipleship teaches us about the different “hats” we wear when we’re making disciples. Jesus had the advantage of knowing the hearts of his disciples, and you can too. You can learn how to motivate them, how to guide them, and how to lead them. This practical episode will empower you to personalize your approach to each disciple whether one at a time or in groups of twelve. Guaranteed!
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
What do dead pandas have to do with discipleship? This talk from Doug Burrier of Sustainable Discipleship helps us learn how to help disciples find great truths by answering the riddles in the Bible. Doug, who is a decision scientist, shares a simple method that always results in disciples consuming God’s word on their own.
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Do you believe in yourself? Do you believe in those you make disciples? Better yet, do you believe in God? Doug Burrier of Sustainable Discipleship helps us answer those three questions and discover three people, three goals, and three strategies that always work in discipleship.
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Monday Oct 02, 2023
There are critical, biblical keys that every Discipling Group leader needs to know and understand to see serious transformation of life in his/her group’s members. In this episode, David Roadcup of TCM International discusses and illustratrates each of these keys and applies them to situations and circumstances each of us face as we begin and develop our Discipling Groups.
Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
Lay leaders, both men and women, can very effectively lead formal discipling groups on their own. In this episode, David Roadcup of TCM International Institute explains how to prepare and motivate lay leaders to accept the challenge to lead life-changing groups themselves.
Monday Sep 25, 2023
Monday Sep 25, 2023
We must carefully examine the elements Jesus used to train and prepare His own disciples for being effective disciple makers themselves. In this episode, David Roadmap of TCM International Institute helps us discover what Jesus did to grow and prepare His disciples for multiplication and how you can do the same for those you’re currently discipling.
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
David Roadcup of TCM teaches us the importance of a spiritual-full life before being a spiritual leader in someone's life. The heart of leading and developing a life-changing discipleship ministry begins with the spiritual life of the leader. We must know Jesus personally and deeply. This episode will teach you how to dramatically grow in your own spiritual journey.
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Corey Spinks of e3partners shares new tools that college leaders and next gen leaders are using to share the gospel and make disciples. These tools are creating massive opportunities around North America to train up the next generation and send them to the nations.
Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
Bryan King from e3partners talks with us about developing leaders to engage people and places that are far from God. He shares stories from churches that are being equipped with evangelism and discipleship to help the surrounding neighborhoods by sharing the Gospel one person at a time.
Monday Sep 11, 2023
Monday Sep 11, 2023
In this episode Ryan Spinks from e3partners talks with us about the Discovery Bible Study and how we can help others encounter and engage Jesus in a way that gets us (the leader) out of the equation. He gives us a simple way to see peoples lives transformed by the Word of God.
New Resource on Disciple Making Culture!
A disciple making church culture is what your church actually does in disciple making; strategy is your plans on paper. Unfortunately, while we have good intentions to make disciples, our strategy and church culture do not always line up.
Read this 10 minute book – a visual summary – and share it with your leaders so everyone can better understand what it means to have a disciple making culture.
Watch the recordings from our most Recent National Disciple Making Forum
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
The Harvard Business Review describes it this way: “The values, beliefs and behaviors practiced in an organization formed over time because they are rewarded or punished (i.e. by formal or informal rules, rituals, and behaviors.”
The McKinsey Institute put it more simply: “culture is how we do things around here …”
That statement, often attributed to the most influential management guru of our time, Peter Drucker. What Drucker meant by “culture eats strategy for breakfast” was that lasting change in an organization comes only when the culture of an organization changes. Applying this to church, if you do not change the culture of a church, the church will not change.
Many leaders fail to account for this reality.
This gets at the root of why our disciple making plans can so easily fail. We try great strategies—preaching on disciple making, small groups, D-Groups, etc. But our churches will not change—indeed cannot change—because “culture” easily defeats the strategies we adopt.
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