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 Feb 02, 2022
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
This episode features discipleFIRST with their first track session at the 2021 National Disciple Making Forum. Craig brought a message contrasting the superstar pastor with the disciple making leader.
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Monday Jan 31, 2022
This episode was track session #2 for Concentric and they talked to us about Jesus using "fishing trips" to give new experiences to his disciples. Mike Harder (the president of Concentric introduces Doug Holliday who brings the message).
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
This episode was track session #1 for Concentric and they talked to us about using mission trips for disciple making. Mike Harder (the president of Concentric introduces Chris and Kelly Lillpop of Josiah Venture.
Friday Jan 21, 2022
Friday Jan 21, 2022
This episode is the fourth and final track session given by The Bonhoeffer Project at the 2021 National Disciple Making Forum. Dan Leitz, Cindy Perkins, and Jim Thomas talk to us about the problems that come along with shifting a church culture from programs to discipleship.
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
This episode was taken from a track session at the 2021 National Disciple Making Forum where The Bonhoeffer Project presented their third track session for the event. It features chief Denny Heiberg along with several from the TBP team with a message about the difficulties in discipling real life people.
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Monday Jan 17, 2022
This episode was taken from a track session at the 2021 National Disciple Making Forum where The Bonhoeffer Project presented their second track session for the event. It features chief executive officer Dan Leitz and many more from the team in a conversation about the differences in discipling someone into a program versus discipling someone to follow Jesus.
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
This episode was taken from a track session at the 2021 National Disciple Making Forum where The Bonhoeffer Project presented their first track session for the event. It features chief executive officer Dan Leitz and many more from the team in a conversation about why they do discipleship.
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Monday Jan 10, 2022
This episode feature Matt Markins (Chief Strategy Officer of Awana). Matt brings us another word about making resilient disciples out of our kids and give us 3 critical factors for doing so.
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
This clip was taken from the Awana track session at the 2021 National Disciple Making Forum. Melanie Hester talked to us about the importance of handing down the faith and also revealed some ways where we think we're handing it down, but we're actually not.
Monday Jan 03, 2022
Monday Jan 03, 2022
This episode feature Matt Markins (Chief Strategy Officer of Awana). Matt offers great insight for building a strong community within our children and student ministries.
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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