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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Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
This episode was the first track session from Freedom In Christ Ministries at the 2021 National Disciple Making Forum. Dr. Neil Anderson talked to us about how everyone has a worldview whether they realize it or not and how it affects everything including discipleship.
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The Bondage Breaker
Victory Over the Darkness
Freedom in Christ
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
This episode features Scotty Kessler (director of The Robert Coleman School of Discipleship and The Wes Neal School Of Sports Ministry at Faith International University) as he gives us the third track session at last year's National Disciple Making Forum. He talked about investing in a small group of people that you may already have in front of you versus spending time wishing you had a bigger church.
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Ozark Christian College Masters
2022 National Disciple Making Forum
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
This episode features Scotty Kessler (director of The Robert Coleman School of Discipleship and The Wes Neal School Of Sports Ministry at Faith International University) as he gives us the second track session at last year's National Disciple Making Forum. He explained what discipleship is, what it is not, and also some areas that he sees where the American church is lacking in making disciples.
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Book resources:
Master Plan of Evangelism
The Lost Art of Disciple Making
Born to Reproduce
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
This episode features Scotty Kessler (director of The Robert Coleman School of Discipleship and The Wes Neal School Of Sports Ministry at Faith International University) as he gives us the first track session at last year's National Disciple Making Forum. He talked to us about the importance of prayer in the midst of discipleship.
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Book resources:
Master Plan of Evangelism
The Lost Art of Disciple Making
Born to Reproduce
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
This episode was Exponential's third track session at the 2021 National Disciple Making Forum. Myron Pierce (founder and lead pastor of Mission Church in Omaha) spoke to us about multiplication in our communities versus addition to our churches.
Monday Feb 21, 2022
Monday Feb 21, 2022
This episode was Exponential's first track session at the 2021 National Disciple Making Forum. Grant Skeldon (author of "The Passion Generation") spoke to us about reaching and discipling the next generation.
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
This episode was Exponential's first track session at the 2021 National Disciple Making Forum. Myron Pierce (founder and lead pastor of Mission Church in Omaha) spoke to us about multiplying disciples as the real way forward for church growth.
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Monday Feb 14, 2022
This episode features discipleFIRST with their fourth and final track session at the 2021 National Disciple Making Forum. Glenn Underhill and Craig Etheredge spoke to us about helping the leaders we are training up to walk through difficulties and character defects with grace and transparency.
Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
This episode features discipleFIRST with their third track session at the 2021 National Disciple Making Forum. Craig Etheredge spoke to us about creating cultures and structures that produce healthy disciple making leaders.
Monday Feb 07, 2022
Monday Feb 07, 2022
This episode features discipleFIRST with their second track session at the 2021 National Disciple Making Forum. Craig spoke to us about healthy pathways for training up leaders of leaders.
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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