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 May 19, 2021
Wednesday May 19, 2021
This episode features a clip taken from the Exponential 2020 Pre-Conference. Shodankeh describes this wonderful disciple making tool: Discovery Bible Study.
Wednesday May 12, 2021
Wednesday May 12, 2021
This episode features a clip taken from the Exponential 2020 Pre-Conference. Shodankeh takes us through what a person of peace looks like and how they look for and use them all over the world to spread the gospel, make disciples, and plant churches.
Monday May 10, 2021
Monday May 10, 2021
This episode is a response to Shodankeh’s message in episode 10. Jim Putman and Corey Tremble (lead pastor at The Experience in Murfreesboro, TN). The clip featured in this episode was taken from the Exponential Conference of 2020.
Wednesday May 05, 2021
Wednesday May 05, 2021
The clip featured in this episode was taken from the Exponential Conference of 2020. Shodankeh Johnson takes us through his methods of serving of people with the purpose of making disciples.
Wednesday May 05, 2021
Wednesday May 05, 2021
This episode features the forum response to Shodankeh's teaching in episode 8 of season 8. After Shodankeh's session Jim Putman, Bill Hull, and Bobby Harrington joined him on stage to respond and discuss further his teaching on prayer and fasting.
Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
The clip featured in this episode was taken from the Exponential Conference of 2020. Shodankeh Johnson explains the importance of prayer and fasting before discipleship and goes into detail about how he does things at his church back home in Sierra Leone.
Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
The clip featured in this episode was taken from the Exponential Conference of 2020. Bobby Harrington and our partners shared speeches about disciple making here in North America and about what's happening around the globe. This first speech is from our point leader Bobby Harrington about what churches look like when they are defined as disciple making churches.
Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
This episode is taken from one of Discipleship.org's Q&A Sessions which aired in the Discipleship.org Collective. Our point leader Bobby Harrington, along with Neil Anderson (Freedom In Christ Ministries) answer questions from a live online audience.
Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
This episode is taken from one of Discipleship.org's Q&A Sessions which aired in the Discipleship.org Collective. Our point leader Bobby Harrington, along with Kennon Vaughan (lead pastor at Harvest Church Memphis) answer questions from a live online audience.
Thursday Apr 15, 2021
Thursday Apr 15, 2021
This episode is taken from one of Discipleship.org's Q&A Sessions which aired in the Discipleship.org Collective. Our point leader Bobby Harrington, along with Ken Adams (found and director of Impact Discipleship Ministries) answer questions from a live online audience about the process of making disciples.
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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