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 Jan 30, 2023
Monday Jan 30, 2023
This episode features Real Life Ministries sharing their process of what it looks like to do relational discipleship in foreign countries. They talked about how the Holy Spirit has been faithful in guiding and helping them.
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
This track session features Dave and Janelle Campbell of Real Life Ministries giving us another look at the Great Commission and why we should focus our international efforts on Biblical Discipleship as opposed to "traditional" missions models.
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Monday Jan 23, 2023
It is vitally important for you to establish safeguards for yourself when discipling hurting people, because your best gift to others is a healthy you! In this session, Melanie and Marshall from Mercy Multiplied discuss very practical safeguards that you can build into your life to ensure that you are as healthy as you can be for the people that you are discipling.
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Monday Jan 16, 2023
This episode features Melanie Wise and Marshall Gallagher of Mercy Multiplied giving their third track session at our National Disciple Making Forum. Discipling someone who is hurting is much more complex than just helping them fix their eternal issues/struggles. We’re called to help others discover the root causes to their struggles and to disciple them into a relationship with Jesus where He can bring healing and transformation at a root level in their lives. In this session, Melanie and Marshall unpack the concept of the “why” behind people’s “what.” They also dive into the importance of understanding the source of people’s pain, how Jesus responded to hurting people, and how to love someone who is struggling well (including key principles of listening and responding to them).
Monday Jan 09, 2023
Monday Jan 09, 2023
This episode features Melanie Wise and Marshall Gallagher of Mercy Multiplied giving their second track session at our National Disciple Making Forum.
In this session, they unpacked the discipleship keys that have proven transformational to thousands of hurting people for 39 years in Mercy Multiplied’s counseling programs:
Key 1: Total Commitment to Christ
Key 2: Healing Life’s Hurts
Key 3: Renewing the Mind
Key 4: Choosing to Forgive
Key 5: Breaking Generational Patterns
Key 6: Using Your Authority in Christ
Key 7: Maintaining Lifelong Freedom
Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
This episode features Melanie Wise and Marshall Gallagher of Mercy Multiplied. It is vitally important that you know who God has called you to be as you disciple people who are hurting and struggling. But it is just as important that you know what you are not called to be! Melanie and Marshall dive into the important characteristics of an “ambassador of freedom,” understanding your role in other people’s lives (as opposed to God’s role in their lives), knowing who you can help and who you cannot help (yet), and having a firm grasp on when outside support is needed.
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
This is the fourth and final track session that Lionshare did at the National Disciple Making Forum 2022. Dave Buehring along with Darren Bearson, Laurie Frey, and George Kehoe, showed us what it looks like to begin making disciples where we work.
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.
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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