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 Apr 10, 2023
Monday Apr 10, 2023
It is one thing to have a few discipleship groups, but how does disciple making become the practice of your church? Glenn Ogden, Bev Garcia, and Jim Moyer from Global Discipleship Initiative encouraged those of us that are shifting our churches into disciple-making cultures shared the transformational story of the Camarillo Church.
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Craig Etheredge and Glenn Underhill from discipleFIRST continued to teach us about pouring into the leaders that pour into other leaders: how to avoid becoming the solution to everything within your ministry while training others to carry the torch with you and teaching them to bring along others to do the same.
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Craig Etheredge and Glenn Underhill from discipleFIRST encouraged us about how to disciple the disciple maker, the leader of leaders, and reminded us that if we lose our shepherd's heart, we become hopeless.
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
Craig Etheredge and Glenn Underhill from discipleFIRST teach us how to assess where a person lands on a leadership scale and the best way to raise up leaders with longevity who empty themselves to pour into others.
Monday Mar 27, 2023
Monday Mar 27, 2023
Will Smith from e3Partners talked to us about engaging every people and place with the gospel.
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Corey Spinks from e3Partners talked about the fact that if Jesus had a discipleship plan (and he did) then so should we.
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Stephen Kimbrell (director of podcast production for The Bonhoeffer Project) talks with us about pushing past the knowledge of disciple-making and into the application and implementation of disciple-making in your setting.
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Cindy and Carmelita from The Bonhoeffer Project talked with us about the importance of taking care of our souls and making sure we're Spirit-full before pouring into others. Otherwise, we will burn out quick.
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Dan Leitz and Jim Thomas from The Bonhoeffer Project talk about the importance of defining the terms we're using while discipling other or else we might end up confusing our people later on down the road.
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Bill Hull (co-founder of The Bonhoeffer Project) talked to us about the difference in the mental assent Gospel and the real Gospel and how we need to have a higher calling on ourselves and those we are discipling to make sure we're aware upfront of the costs involved in following Jesus.
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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