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
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
This episode features Dave Buehring and Kent of Chevalier of Lionshare. They talked to us about how they met and experiences of discipling professional football players to trust and follow Jesus and to share that hope wherever they end up.
Monday Apr 11, 2022
Monday Apr 11, 2022
This was the fourth and final track session given by The Great Commandment Network at last year's National Disciple Making Forum. Dr. Lewis Alexander continued their message about living out whole-life discipleship.
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
This was the third track session given by The Great Commandment Network at last year's National Disciple Making Forum. Dr. Lewis Alexander talked more about living out whole-life discipleship in our churches.
Monday Apr 04, 2022
Monday Apr 04, 2022
This was the second track session given by The Great Commandment Network at last year's National Disciple Making Forum. David Ferguson and Lewis Alexander talked more about whole-life discipleship looks like in the church at (sometimes more importantly) at home.
Wednesday Mar 30, 2022
Wednesday Mar 30, 2022
This audio clip was taken from the first track session by The Great Commandment Network at last year's National Disciple Making Forum. David Ferguson and Lewis Alexander talked to us about whole-life discipleship.
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
This clip was taken from the third and final track session by The Global Discipleship Initiative at last year's Forum. Greg Ogden and Ralph Rittenhouse talked about lowering the bar for becoming a small group leader. Anyone can lead a group of 3-4 people. We don't need experts; we need transparent and authentic people.
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
This clip was taken from the second track session by The Global Discipleship Initiative at last year's Forum. Greg Ogden, Ralph Rittenhouse and Dan Domingue (Director of Leader Development) talked about how leaders need to set a tone of deep transparency from the very start of their small groups.
Monday Mar 21, 2022
Monday Mar 21, 2022
This clip was taken from the first track session by The Global Discipleship Initiative at last year's Forum. We got to hear from founders Greg Ogden and Ralph Rittenhouse along with Executive Assistant Director Bev Garcia about practical steps to creating a disciple making, reproducing church.
Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
This episode was the third and final track session from Freedom In Christ Ministries at the 2021 National Disciple Making Forum. Dr. Neil Anderson talked about overcoming barriers when helping people push through in their faith and he also shared some personal stories of going to battle in the spiritual realm.
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The Bondage Breaker
Victory Over the Darkness
Freedom in Christ
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Monday Mar 14, 2022
This episode was the second track session from Freedom In Christ Ministries at the 2021 National Disciple Making Forum. Daryl Fitzgerald (marriage pastor at Bethel World Outreach Church) gave his testimony and talked about finding and really believing our new identity in Christ.
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The Bondage Breaker
Victory Over the Darkness
Freedom in Christ
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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