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 Sep 14, 2022
Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
Justin Gravitt (Navigators Church Ministries) and Tony Miltenberger (Spirit & Truth) got personal with us about their experiences with disciple making cultures and shared with us 4 key points for beginning a process of shifting things at your church.
Monday Sep 12, 2022
Monday Sep 12, 2022
This episode features Dave Buehring (founder/president of Lionshare) and Kevin Townsend (senior pastor of Sunnyslope Christian Center) discussing the transformation that can happen within life-on-life discipling relationships.
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Glenn and Craig from discipleFIRST sat down to share with us their thoughts on the differences between the superstar church leader versus the disciple-making leader.
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Monday Sep 05, 2022
Monday Sep 05, 2022
This episode came from a teaching on our Discipleship.org Collective where Jim Putman (senior pastor of Real Life Ministries Post Falls; co-founder of Relational Discipleship Network) shared with us about how the discipleship culture at Real Life works in training people to become disciple makers.
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Dane Allphin hopped on the Collective and shared with us 4 key principles to creating a disciple making culture within your church. Check out Navigators Church Ministries by clicking here.
Monday Aug 29, 2022
Monday Aug 29, 2022
Our point leader Bobby Harrington caught up with Curt Erskine and talked about his new book "Recreated to Be Like God" on our discipleship.org Collective. They chatted about the book and also about making sure we as well as our neighbors have counted the cost on what it means to really follow Jesus.
Get your free ebook version of "Recreated to Be Like God" here.
Wednesday Aug 24, 2022
Wednesday Aug 24, 2022
This episode features Paul Huyghebaert and Rob Shaver of Grace Chapel Church. They shared a conversation about implementing disciple making movement principles from around the world in our already established North American churches.
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
This audio was taken from a show that ran in the discipleship.org Collective and it features Greg Ogden and Ralph Rittenhouse of The Global Discipleship Initiative. Greg and Ralph talked to us about the miracles that can happen at any church with micro groups.
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Monday Aug 15, 2022
This audio was taken from a show that ran in the discipleship.org Collective and it features Steve McCoy from smallcircle. Steve talked to us about what it looks like to disciple people one and one, impact that can have, and some tools to help you along your way.
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
This audio was taken from a show that ran in the discipleship.org Collective and it features The Bonhoeffer Project team. Dan Leitz (President and COO of TBP) talked with us about some ways to produce fruitfulness in the ones you are discipling and also about the correct way to shift church cultures towards discipling making.
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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