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 Nov 17, 2021
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
I wanted to give everyone an update on what's going at Discipleship.org and where the podcast is going for the rest of the year.
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To purchase the Digital Access Pass for viewing the 2021 National Disciple Making Forum go to: https://discipleship.org/shop/2021-forum-livestream-digital-access-pass/
Monday Nov 08, 2021
Monday Nov 08, 2021
This episode features Ariana Rimson talking with Matt Dabbs about discipling women. Ariyana has served as the Emerging Leaders program for Downline Ministries.
If you missed our National Disciple Making Forum this year (2021), you can purchase a Digital Access Pass for $49 through 12.31.21 here and watch all the main stage sessions along with the track sessions that happened on the main stage. Enjoy!
Wednesday Nov 03, 2021
Wednesday Nov 03, 2021
Today's episode was taken over by the Global Discipleship Initiative. GDI's president Ralph Rittenhouse interviews Greg Ogden (chairman of the board for GDI) along with Bev Garcia and Frank McCarthy about their journey in becoming a church that makes disciples that make disciples.
Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
This episode features author Curtis Sergeant talking about his new book The Only One. You can purchase here or you can can download a free copy in ebook form here.
Monday Oct 25, 2021
Monday Oct 25, 2021
Today's episode was taken over by the Global Discipleship Initiative. GDI's president Ralph Rittenhouse interviews Greg Ogden (chairman of the board for GDI) along with Bev Garcia and Frank McCarthy about replicating our disciple-making groups.
Wednesday Oct 20, 2021
Wednesday Oct 20, 2021
Our point leader, Bobby Harrington, sat down with Seeds Family Worship co-founder, Jason Houser, to discuss practical ways to lead and disciple your family.
Jason will be at the National Disciple Making Forum Nov. 4 & 5. Click here to purchase your tix. Use the promo code "podcast" to receive a 50% off discount.
Monday Oct 18, 2021
Monday Oct 18, 2021
Today's episode is from a show that aired inside the Discipleship.org Collective where our point leader Bobby Harrington talked with Matt Dabbs about the awesome discipleship tool that is the Discovery Bible Study.
Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
This is part 4 of a series that ran inside the Discipleship.org Collective featuring the new book The Revolutionary Disciple. To catch parts 1-3 click here: Part 1, Part 2, & Part 3.
Order The Revolutionary Disciple Book here: https://himpublications.com/product/the-revolutionary-disciple/
The Revolutionary Disciple Teaching Series Resources for Churches: https://himpublications.com/sermon-series/the-revolutionary-disciple/
Monday Oct 11, 2021
Monday Oct 11, 2021
Our point leader Bobby Harrington got to chat with Dave Clayton (lead pastor Ethos Church in Nashville, TN) about how to raise up authentic disciples in today's world.
Monday Oct 04, 2021
Monday Oct 04, 2021
This is part 3 of a series Chad Harrington and Jim Putman have been taking us through on their new book The Revolutionary Disciple.
Order The Revolutionary Disciple Book here: https://himpublications.com/product/the-revolutionary-disciple/
The Revolutionary Disciple Teaching Series Resources for Churches: https://himpublications.com/sermon-series/the-revolutionary-disciple/
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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