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.
Episodes
Apr 4, 2022
Apr 4, 2022
59 min
This was the second track session given by The Great Commandment Network at last year's National Disciple Making Forum. David Ferguson and Lewis Alexander talked more about whole-life discipleship looks like in the church at (sometimes more importantly) at home.
Mar 30, 2022
Mar 30, 2022
59 min
This audio clip was taken from the first track session by The Great Commandment Network at last year's National Disciple Making Forum. David Ferguson and Lewis Alexander talked to us about whole-life discipleship.
Mar 28, 2022
Mar 28, 2022
1hr 9 min
This clip was taken from the third and final track session by The Global Discipleship Initiative at last year's Forum. Greg Ogden and Ralph Rittenhouse talked about lowering the bar for becoming a small group leader. Anyone can lead a group of 3-4 people. We don't need experts; we need transparent and authentic people.
Mar 23, 2022
Mar 23, 2022
1hr 5 min
This clip was taken from the second track session by The Global Discipleship Initiative at last year's Forum. Greg Ogden, Ralph Rittenhouse and Dan Domingue (Director of Leader Development) talked about how leaders need to set a tone of deep transparency from the very start of their small groups.
Mar 21, 2022
Mar 21, 2022
1hr 5 min
This clip was taken from the first track session by The Global Discipleship Initiative at last year's Forum. We got to hear from founders Greg Ogden and Ralph Rittenhouse along with Executive Assistant Director Bev Garcia about practical steps to creating a disciple making, reproducing church.
Mar 16, 2022
Mar 16, 2022
1hr 17 min
This episode was the third and final track session from Freedom In Christ Ministries at the 2021 National Disciple Making Forum. Dr. Neil Anderson talked about overcoming barriers when helping people push through in their faith and he also shared some personal stories of going to battle in the spiritual realm.
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The Bondage Breaker
Victory Over the Darkness
Freedom in Christ
Mar 14, 2022
Mar 14, 2022
1hr 1 min
This episode was the second track session from Freedom In Christ Ministries at the 2021 National Disciple Making Forum. Daryl Fitzgerald (marriage pastor at Bethel World Outreach Church) gave his testimony and talked about finding and really believing our new identity in Christ.
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The Bondage Breaker
Victory Over the Darkness
Freedom in Christ
Mar 9, 2022
Mar 9, 2022
1hr 7 min
This episode was the first track session from Freedom In Christ Ministries at the 2021 National Disciple Making Forum. Dr. Neil Anderson talked to us about how everyone has a worldview whether they realize it or not and how it affects everything including discipleship.
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The Bondage Breaker
Victory Over the Darkness
Freedom in Christ
Mar 2, 2022
Mar 2, 2022
1hr 11 min
This episode features Scotty Kessler (director of The Robert Coleman School of Discipleship and The Wes Neal School Of Sports Ministry at Faith International University) as he gives us the third track session at last year's National Disciple Making Forum. He talked about investing in a small group of people that you may already have in front of you versus spending time wishing you had a bigger church.
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Ozark Christian College Masters
2022 National Disciple Making Forum
Mar 2, 2022
Mar 2, 2022
1hr 6 min
This episode features Scotty Kessler (director of The Robert Coleman School of Discipleship and The Wes Neal School Of Sports Ministry at Faith International University) as he gives us the second track session at last year's National Disciple Making Forum. He explained what discipleship is, what it is not, and also some areas that he sees where the American church is lacking in making disciples.
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Book resources:
Master Plan of Evangelism
The Lost Art of Disciple Making
Born to Reproduce
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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