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
Mar 21, 2019
Mar 21, 2019
1hr 57 sec
Download “Invest in a Few,” a free eBook written by Craig Etheredge of discipleFIRST. Visit http://discipleship.org/disciplefirst to get your free copy of this eBook in PDF, Mobi and ePub formats.
The following audio comes from the National Disciple Making Forum by Discipleship.org. The theme for this year was “Relationships” and an organization called discipleFIRST hosted a track called "Developing a Disciple Making Culture."
Connect with Discipleship.org:
https://twitter.com/disciplesforum
https://www.facebook.com/discipleshipforum
Connect with discipleFIRST:
https://disciplefirst.com/
https://www.facebook.com/disciplefirst
https://twitter.com/disciple1st
https://soundcloud.com/disciplefirst
https://www.instagram.com/disciple1st/
Mar 18, 2019
Mar 18, 2019
47 min
Download “Invest in a Few,” a free eBook written by Craig Etheredge of discipleFIRST. Visit http://discipleship.org/disciplefirst to get your free copy of this eBook in PDF, Mobi and ePub formats.
The following audio comes from the National Disciple Making Forum by Discipleship.org. The theme for this year was “Relationships” and an organization called discipleFIRST hosted a track called "Developing a Disciple Making Culture."
Connect with Discipleship.org:
https://twitter.com/disciplesforum
https://www.facebook.com/discipleshipforum
Connect with discipleFIRST:
https://disciplefirst.com/
https://www.facebook.com/disciplefirst
https://twitter.com/disciple1st
https://soundcloud.com/disciplefirst
https://www.instagram.com/disciple1st/
Mar 15, 2019
Mar 15, 2019
1hr 6 min
Download D6 Family’s free Church Health Assessment PDF with 30 questions to help you see how your church is doing with family discipleship: https://discipleship.org/D6/
Today’s audio comes from the National Disciple Making Forum by Discipleship.org. The theme was “Relationships,” and D6 Family hosted a track called “Discipleship in the Home.”
Relevant Links:
D6 Conference’s website: https://d6family.com/
Free resource: https://discipleship.org/D6/
Connect with Discipleship.org:
https://discipleship.org/D6/
https://twitter.com/disciplesforum
https://www.facebook.com/discipleshipforum
Mar 13, 2019
Mar 13, 2019
53 min
Download D6 Family’s free Church Health Assessment PDF with 30 questions to help you see how your church is doing with family discipleship: https://discipleship.org/D6/
Today’s audio comes from the National Disciple Making Forum by Discipleship.org. The theme was “Relationships,” and D6 Family hosted a track called “Discipleship in the Home.”
Relevant Links:
D6 Conference’s website: https://d6family.com/
Free resource: https://discipleship.org/D6/
Connect with Discipleship.org:
https://discipleship.org/D6/
https://twitter.com/disciplesforum
https://www.facebook.com/discipleshipforum
Mar 7, 2019
Mar 7, 2019
59 min
Download Bill Hull and Ben Sobels’s free primer to The Discipleship Gospel where you can learn to teach the gospel of Jesus that leads to discipleship: http://discipleship.org/gospel.
Today’s audio comes from the National Disciple Making Forum by Discipleship.org. The theme was “Relationships,” and The Bonhoeffer Project, led by Bill Hull, hosted a track called, “Going Upstream In Disciple Making.”
Relevant Links:
The Bonhoeffer Project website: https://thebonhoefferproject.com/
Free resource: http://discipleship.org/gospel
Connect with Discipleship.org:
http://discipleship.org/
https://twitter.com/disciplesforum
https://www.facebook.com/discipleshipforum
Mar 4, 2019
Mar 4, 2019
55 min
Download Bill Hull and Ben Sobels’s free primer to The Discipleship Gospel where you can learn to teach the gospel of Jesus that leads to discipleship: http://discipleship.org/gospel.
Today’s audio comes from the National Disciple Making Forum by Discipleship.org. The theme was “Relationships,” and The Bonhoeffer Project, led by Bill Hull, hosted a track called, “Going Upstream In Disciple Making.”
Relevant Links:
The Bonhoeffer Project website: https://thebonhoefferproject.com/
Free resource: http://discipleship.org/gospel
Connect with Discipleship.org:
http://discipleship.org/
https://twitter.com/disciplesforum
https://www.facebook.com/discipleshipforum
Feb 28, 2019
Feb 28, 2019
1hr 33 sec
Download Bill Hull and Ben Sobels’s free primer to The Discipleship Gospel where you can learn to teach the gospel of Jesus that leads to discipleship: http://discipleship.org/gospel.
Today’s audio comes from the National Disciple Making Forum by Discipleship.org. The theme was “Relationships,” and The Bonhoeffer Project, led by Bill Hull, hosted a track called, “Going Upstream In Disciple Making.”
Relevant Links:
The Bonhoeffer Project website: https://thebonhoefferproject.com/
Free resource: http://discipleship.org/gospel
Connect with Discipleship.org:
http://discipleship.org/
https://twitter.com/disciplesforum
https://www.facebook.com/discipleshipforum
Feb 25, 2019
Feb 25, 2019
53 min
Download Bill Hull and Ben Sobels’s free primer to The Discipleship Gospel where you can learn to teach the gospel of Jesus that leads to discipleship: http://discipleship.org/gospel.
Today’s audio comes from the National Disciple Making Forum by Discipleship.org. The theme was “Relationships,” and The Bonhoeffer Project, led by Bill Hull, hosted a track called, “Going Upstream In Disciple Making.”
Relevant Links:
The Bonhoeffer Project website: https://thebonhoefferproject.com/
Free resource: http://discipleship.org/gospel
Connect with Discipleship.org:
http://discipleship.org/
https://twitter.com/disciplesforum
https://www.facebook.com/discipleshipforum
Feb 21, 2019
Feb 21, 2019
52 min
Download Bill Hull and Ben Sobels’s free primer to The Discipleship Gospel where you can learn to teach the gospel of Jesus that leads to discipleship: http://discipleship.org/gospel.
Today’s audio comes from the National Disciple Making Forum by Discipleship.org. The theme was “Relationships,” and The Bonhoeffer Project, led by Bill Hull, hosted a track called, “Going Upstream In Disciple Making.”
Relevant Links:
The Bonhoeffer Project website: https://thebonhoefferproject.com/
Free resource: http://discipleship.org/gospel
Connect with Discipleship.org:
http://discipleship.org/
https://twitter.com/disciplesforum
https://www.facebook.com/discipleshipforum
Feb 17, 2019
Feb 17, 2019
1hr 8 min
Download the free PDF “The Process of Transformation” by Dave Buehring. Visit http://discipleship.org/lionshare to get your free PDF.
The following audio comes from the National Disciple Making Forum by Discipleship·org. The theme was “Relationships,” and Lionshare hosted a track called “Making Disciples in the Generations and Vocations.”
Connect with Discipleship.org:
https://twitter.com/disciplesforum
https://www.facebook.com/discipleshipforum
Relevant Links:
Lionshare website: http://www.lionshare.org/
Dave Buehring on Twitter: https://twitter.com/davebuehring
Lionshare on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lionshare_org
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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