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 Jun 23, 2021
Wednesday Jun 23, 2021
This episode features author Will Mancini about his new book Future Church: Seven Laws of Real Church Growth which can be purchased here.
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
This episode features author Brandon Guindon about his book Disciple Making Culture which you can purchase here. This clip was taken from a show that ran in the Discipleship.org Collective and is part of our author series. Bobby and Brandon discuss his how-to guide for creating a healthy disciple-making culture that will make all the difference in wether your church flourishes or flounders.
Monday Jun 14, 2021
Monday Jun 14, 2021
This episode features author Rob Wegner about his new book The Starfish and the Spirit which is available for purchase here. This clip was taken from a show that ran in the Discipleship.org Collective and is part of our author series. Bobby and Rob discuss how organic church movements work and how to see the value of a network of connected churches.
Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
Bobby interviews author Pete Scazzero about his book Emotionally Healthy Discipleship: Moving From Shallow Christianity to Deep Transformation. You can purchase his book here.
Monday Jun 07, 2021
Monday Jun 07, 2021
This episode features a clip from the Discipleship.org Collective where Bobby interviews author Doug Paul. His new book Kingdom Innovation For A Brave New World is available here. Enjoy!
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
The clip featured in this episode was taken from a show we aired in the Discipleship.org Collective. Bobby interviewed Alisa Childers about her new book Another Gospel? which is available for purchase here.
Monday May 31, 2021
Monday May 31, 2021
This episode features a show from the Discipleship.org Collective that features author and senior minister of North Boulevard Church of Christ, David Young. You can purchase his new book King Jesus here.
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Bobby Harrington interviews Corey Trimble (lead pastor of The Experience in Murfreesboro, TN) about his church and also his new book An Authentic Experience: Creating an Inviting Culture with Biblical Integrity. Enjoy!
Monday May 24, 2021
Monday May 24, 2021
This episode was taken from a show that aired in the Discipleship.org Collective. Bobby interviews Thom Rainer (author, founder and CEO of churchanswers.com) about his new book The Post-Quarantine Church: Six Urgent Challenges and Opportunities That Will Determine the Future of Your Congregation.
Wednesday May 19, 2021
Wednesday May 19, 2021
This episode features a clip taken from the Exponential 2020 Pre-Conference. Shodankeh Johnson lets us look inside his intentions when he is starting a new small group or a new church; he is intentionally looking for naturally gifted leaders that can carry the group forward and multiply.
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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