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
Monday Dec 19, 2022
Monday Dec 19, 2022
In this episode Dave Buehring and Lauri Jarvis of Lionshare shared their experiences of discipling children beyond just the basics. Bible stories are important. They're an essential part of helping children understand the life of Jesus, the heroes of the faith, and who God is. But we have to further than that. A new Barna report finds that to truly prepare our children for faith-filled adulthood, we need to consider reframing "children's ministry" as something closer to "child discipleship."
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Dave Buehring of Lionshare talked to us about feeling burned out while doing ministry that we think is what God wants us to do versus getting plugged into where God is already moving.
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
This episode features Dave Buehring and Grant Edwards of Lionshare giving a track session about discipling people into knowledge versus into obedience. The way the Western church has communicated spiritual truths has relied much more on what we are learning (the Greek model), than who we are learning from (the Hebrew model). Knowing Scripture is important but for life transformation to happen, we need revelation from the Holy Spirit and the will to obey.
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
This is part 2 of a conversation Freedom in Christ Ministries had at our Forum this year on how your identity in Christ informs and enables you to have conversations about race.
Monday Dec 05, 2022
Monday Dec 05, 2022
How do we as believers respond to the heightened racial tension in our country today? Freedom in Christ Ministries believes that our spiritual identity, not our ethnic or racial identity should guide our conversations. Learn how your identity in Christ informs and enables you to have conversations about race and experience for your self what Freedom in Christ is all about.
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
Susan Freese (founder and president of All In Ministries International) talked to us about healthy short term missions. You can more wisely steward your short-term missions to make a long-term impact with one addition: discipling indigenous women. Worldwide women believers do not know they are loved, valued, or have a divine purpose of enjoying God and exalting Him by making disciples. When you intentionally invest in local women—they are radically and fundamentally changed. They’ll risk their lives to spread the gospel to their families, communities, and closed spaces. That’s because women are "keepers of religion" in many cultures—yet few people invest in women.
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Susan Freese (founder and president of All In Ministries International) spoke about launching (or re-launching) thriving women's ministries. To encourage and equip women to fulfill their part in the body of Christ requires intentionality. Women's ministry in the local church is not meant to be superficial or siloed. With your support, women's ministry can be one of the most evangelistic, disciple-making drivers of the local church. That’s because in single-gender environments, women feel more comfortable asking questions, volunteering, and sharing their faith.
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Monday Nov 21, 2022
I wanted to inform you of a couple d.org announcements: 1. The next National Disciple Making Forum is coming to Indiana April 26-27, 2023 at Traders Point Christian Church Indianapolis. Get the super early bird special on tickets by clicking here (sale ends soon). If you're interested in reading an article written by our point leader Bobby Harrington about the theme for the event, check it out here. 2. Help d.org out with a year end gift by purchasing the Digital Access Pass for the 2022 National Disciple Making Forum. Click here to purchase the DAP. Have a great Thanksgiving!
Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
Dr. Carl A. Williamson (Assistant Professor, Endowed Chair of Discipleship and Church Planting at Harding University) shares a proven model for discipleship that can be used in a variety of settings and places and is simple enough for anyone to get started right away.
Monday Nov 14, 2022
Monday Nov 14, 2022
This is Renew.org's third track session at this year's National Disciple Making Forum and a continuation of the conversation between Paul Huyghebaert (lead minister at Grace Chapel Church of Christ) and Shodankeh Johnson (part of the Core Team of New Generations) about disciple making movement principles. Shodankeh shares amazing stories of church planting and disciple making movements in Africa while Paul describes the practical things his church has implemented to get the ball rolling here in North America.
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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