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
Sep 20, 2021
Sep 20, 2021
58 min
This episode is about Chad Harrington and Jim Putman's new book The Revolutionary Disciple. Both authors talk to us about what the book is all about and how to apply it in today's world.
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/
Sep 15, 2021
Sep 15, 2021
1hr 4 min
This episode features Alisa Childers (alisachilders.com) being interviewed by Discipleship.org point leader Bobby Harrington about the intellectual cost of discipleship.
Sep 13, 2021
Sep 13, 2021
57 min
This episode features Curtis Sergeant (obeygc2.com) being interviewed by Discipleship.org Bobby Harrington about disciple making movements happening around the world.
Sep 8, 2021
Sep 8, 2021
52 min
This episode features The Bonhoeffer Project team interviewing Stephen Kimbrell about what the gospel is versus what it isn't.
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Sep 7, 2021
Sep 7, 2021
47 min
This episode features our point leader Bobby Harrington interviewing Drew Hyun (founder and lead pastor of Hope Church Midtown) about emotionally healthy disciple making.
Resource: https://www.emotionallyhealthy.org
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Sep 1, 2021
Sep 1, 2021
46 min
This episode features DiscipleFirst. Glenn Underhill interviews Craig Etheridge and Gary Chevalier about evangelism strategies. The clip this episode was taken from originally aired inside classroom 3 of the Discipleship.org Collective.
Aug 30, 2021
Aug 30, 2021
50 min
This episode features The Bonhoeffer Project. The executive director of TBP, Cindy Perkins, interviews Jim Thomas (senior pastor of First Baptist Church Fayetteville, GA) and Carmelita Boyce (Ladies Ministry Coordinator at Bay Life Church) about whether or not we'll ever get back to "normal". Jim and Carmelita talk through what things are looking at their churches now and cast a wonderful vision for how to move forward.
Aug 25, 2021
Aug 25, 2021
44 min
Today's episode is brought to you by DiscipleFirst. This is part 2 or a series that's airing inside the Discipleship.org Collective about Evangelism Strategies and it features Glenn Underhill, Craig Etheridge, and Josh McCasland of First Colleyville. Click here to find out more about their church. If you haven't listened to part 1 yet, skip back to episode 40 of this season of The Disciple Maker's Podcast and check that out. Enjoy!
Aug 23, 2021
Aug 23, 2021
55 min
This episode was taken from classroom 2 of the Discipleship.org Collective and it features The Bonhoeffer Project. Cindy Perkins interviews Bill Hull and Dan Leitz about whether discipleship makes a difference. Why bother?
Aug 18, 2021
Aug 18, 2021
48 min
On this episode we have Craig Etheridge and Glenn Underhill of disciplefirst.com and Chad Vandiver of First Colleyville. Craig, Glenn, and Chad talk to us about evangelism.
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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