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 Aug 17, 2022
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
This audio was taken from a show that ran in the discipleship.org Collective and it features Greg Ogden and Ralph Rittenhouse of The Global Discipleship Initiative. Greg and Ralph talked to us about the miracles that can happen at any church with micro groups.
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Monday Aug 15, 2022
This audio was taken from a show that ran in the discipleship.org Collective and it features Steve McCoy from smallcircle. Steve talked to us about what it looks like to disciple people one and one, impact that can have, and some tools to help you along your way.
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
This audio was taken from a show that ran in the discipleship.org Collective and it features The Bonhoeffer Project team. Dan Leitz (President and COO of TBP) talked with us about some ways to produce fruitfulness in the ones you are discipling and also about the correct way to shift church cultures towards discipling making.
Monday Aug 08, 2022
Monday Aug 08, 2022
This audio was taken from a show that ran in the discipleship.org Collective. Shodankeh, Paul, and Bobby discuss different principles for seeing a disciple making movement in our already established churches. They ended with an amazing plea and prayer for an awakening of our North American churches.
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
This audio was taken from Zúme Training's second track session and last year's National Disciple Making Forum. Curtis Sergeant (leader of the original subteam that began working on Zúme) walked us the through the how and the why of using Zúme Training as your next tool to equip the people you are discipling.
Monday Aug 01, 2022
Monday Aug 01, 2022
This audio was taken from Zúme Training's third track session and last year's National Disciple Making Forum. Curtis Sergeant (leader of the original subteam that began working on Zúme) shared some heartbreaking stories of suffering in the field and the necessity for teaching those we're discipling to be prepared to suffer well.
Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
This audio was taken from Zúme Training's second track session and last year's National Disciple Making Forum. Curtis Sergeant (leader of the original subteam that began working on Zúme) informed us about the four stages of the training cycle (model, assist, watch, and leave) in order to equip the people we're discipling to go and disciple others.
Monday Jul 25, 2022
Monday Jul 25, 2022
This audio was taken from Zúme Training's first track session and last year's National Disciple Making Forum. Curtis Sergeant (led the original subteam that began working on Zúme) talked to us about some of the basic principles behind these types of movements that we're seeing around the world.
Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
This audio was taken from TCM International Institute's fourth track session at last year's National Disciple Making Forum. Jordan M. Scheetz (Professor of Biblical Studies at TCM) talked further about the history of prayer and fasting and wonders why and where church lost the practice of doing it.
Monday Jul 18, 2022
Monday Jul 18, 2022
This audio was taken from TCM International Institute's third track session at last year's National Disciple Making Forum. Jordan M. Scheetz (Professor of Biblical Studies at TCM) gave us a message about Jesus' prayer life and he also shared with us the story of losing his daughter.
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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