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 Oct 17, 2022
Monday Oct 17, 2022
This was BetterMan's first track session at the 2022 National Disciple Making Forum. Chris Harper (Executive Director) taught us about giving men a higher calling - to become godly and lead their family and in their social context.
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Matt Dabbs (director of the Discipleship.org Collective) has a conversation with Rich Knopp who discusses his ministry, Room for Doubt. He conveys how this ministry ties into parents discipling and raising up their kids in the Lord. Join us in this great conversation around parents raising up their children in the Lord, and how Rich views his ministry impacting Discipleship.
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
We are taking a break from Sep 29 - Oct 17 to focus on the National Disciple Making Forum and to create new episodes for the podcast. Tune back in Oct 17 for more episodes.
Monday Sep 26, 2022
Monday Sep 26, 2022
Matthew Dabbs interviews Alice Matagora about her new book "How To Save the World: Disciplemaking Made Simple". Come see Alice speak at the National Disciple Making Forum in Nashville, TN by clicking here.
Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
This episode is part 2 of a conversation between Matt Markins (president and CEO of Awana) and Discipleship.org Collective Director Matt Dabbs on what it looks like to Disciple your kids to make a long term impact.
Monday Sep 19, 2022
Monday Sep 19, 2022
This episode features Matt Markins (president and CEO of Awana) having a conversation with Discipleship.org Collective Director Matt Dabbs about discipling our kids and the things we must do to cultivate long-lasting faith within our children.
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.
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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