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 Jun 13, 2022
Monday Jun 13, 2022
This episode features renew.org with their second track session at last year's Forum. Michelle Eagle (Discipleship and Women's Minister at Harpeth Christian Church in Franklin, TN) talked to us about creating a disciple making culture within your women's ministry.
Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
This episode features renew.org giving their first track session at last year's Forum. They gave us a unique insight by having the renew.org women give us the ted-style talks. This track session features Megan Rawlings talking about the importance of believing correct theology in order to properly disciple our kids.
Megan Rawlings resources: christianstandard.com & theboldmovement.com
Monday Jun 06, 2022
Monday Jun 06, 2022
This audio was from Relational Discipleship Network's fourth and final track session from last year's Forum. Jim, Scott, and Joel opened up about personal struggles with fatigue in their ministry, the importance of life-on-life transparent relationships where you can be the real you, and practical ways to avoid fatigue in your ministry.
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
This audio was from Relational Discipleship Network's third track session from last year's Forum. Bob, Brandon, and Joel shared their wins and failures of using the digital world to disciple their church members.
Monday May 30, 2022
Monday May 30, 2022
This audio was from Relational Discipleship Network's second track session from last year's Forum. The RDN team talked to us about how relational disciple is the way forward for the church and one of the main reasons their churches stayed together throughout the pandemic.
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Wednesday May 25, 2022
This audio was from Relational Discipleship Network's first track session from last year's Forum. The RDN team shared personal struggles within their churches where they have seen and experienced different levels of division and warned against being distracted from keeping the main thing the main thing.
Monday May 23, 2022
Monday May 23, 2022
This was Radical Mentoring's fourth track session from last year's National Disciple Making Forum. Trey Brush gives us a look at their mentoring process at Radical Mentoring.
Wednesday May 18, 2022
Wednesday May 18, 2022
This was Radical Mentoring's third track session from last year's National Disciple Making Forum. Cam talked to us about how vital it is that we open up completely with those we are discipling.
Monday May 16, 2022
Monday May 16, 2022
This was Radical Mentoring's second track session from last year's National Disciple Making Forum. As a biracial man, Cam Washington gave us some incredible insight into the care and the cost of discipling across cultures and generations.
Wednesday May 11, 2022
Wednesday May 11, 2022
This was Radical Mentoring's first track session from last year's National Disciple Making Forum. Cam and Trey talked to us about how to use the method and means that Jesus did for mentoring the people we are leading.
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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