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

May 16, 2017

1hr 9 min

This episode features The Bonhoeffer Project Leadership Team with Bill Hull, Brandon Cook and their team. Heres audio content from The Bonhoeffer Project track. The theme of the conference was, Culture Shift, Back to Jesus Way of Disciple Making. Music Credit: Tony Anderson (www.tonyanderson.com). Register for the next National Disciple Making Forum at www.discipleship.org.

May 9, 2017

1hr 16 min

This episode features Replicate Ministries with Robby Gallaty and his team. Heres audio content from Replicate and their track called, A Pathway for Making Disciples. The theme of the conference was, Culture Shift, Back to Jesus Way of Disciple Making. Music Credit: Tony Anderson (www.tonyanderson.com). Register for the next National Disciple Making Forum at www.discipleship.org.

May 2, 2017

1hr 1 min

This episode features discipleFIRST Ministries with Craig Etheredge and his team. Heres audio content from discipleFIRST Ministries and their track called, Transitioning a Church to a Disciple Making Focus. The theme of the conference was, Culture Shift, Back to Jesus Way of Disciple Making. Music Credit: Tony Anderson (www.tonyanderson.com). Register for the next National Disciple Making Forum at www.discipleship.org.

Oct 31, 2016

25 min

In this episode, Ralph Moore and Bobby Harrington discuss the essential role discipleship and within the Hope Chapel movement. Back in 1971, Ralph Moore helped start the Hope Chapel movement, which has resulted in over 2,300 new churches to date. He shares with Bobby Harrington, the founder of Discipleship.org, the story of how Hope Chapel began and how discipleship is at the very heart of the movement: Moore had grown up in the faith reading discipleship materials from the Navigators. Then, he and a friend started prayer walking every Monday morning to seek the Lord. Music credit: Tony Anderson (www.tonyanderson.com).

Sep 29, 2016

39 min

For Ariyana Rimson discipleship began when she heard the Gospel growing up in church. Her youth ministers pointed her to the Lord, but it didn't really click until she was 19 years old, when she became a disciple. Thats when the Lord began to take her to a place beyond what she had imagined. It started on the day she was baptized when she met an older woman in the church named Leah, who really taught her how to follow Jesus through life-on-life discipleship. Music credit: Tony Anderson (www.tonyanderson.com).

Sep 1, 2016

34 min

This story is about James Forlines and Final Command Ministries (http://www.finalcommand.com/). The story of how this ministry began is unique because most of their work has been outside the United States. Another element that makes this episode unique is the behind the scenes look at the story from one of the founders, Jerry Trousdale, the author of Miraculous Movements, a book about how hundreds of thousands of Muslims are falling in love with Jesus.
Heres the executive director, James Forlines, about what a fresh look at disciple making looks like today.
Music credit: Tony Anderson (www.tonyanderson.com).

Aug 23, 2016

36 min

We asked Pat Morley about what discipleship has looked like in his life. He shared his conversion to Christ story and then how God used him to launch Man in the Mirror, which was first a book, and then it became a ministry. The goal of Man in the Mirror (as a ministry) is simple: helping men to disciple men. Here's Pat about his conversion story, how God radically changed his life, and how that all turned into a passion for every man to be discipled: Man in the Mirror: http://www.maninthemirror.org/ Music credit: Tony Anderson (www.tonyanderson.com).

Aug 17, 2016

42 min

Robby Gallaty leads Long Hallow Baptist Church (http://longhollow.com) as the Senior Pastor. Long Hallow, which is in Nashville, Tennessee is where the Discipleship.org National forum is hosted this year. Its in interesting ministry and context for disciple making, because of the larger numbers at Long Hallow. Robby brings a unique perspective on making disciples in a large church setting because of his extensive ministry experience *specifically in making disciples*, even though hes got a masters degree in preaching. In this episode, youll hear Robby tell his conversion to Christ story, as well as his perspective on disciple making today. He offers practical tips for all disciple-making leaders. Youll also here two other disciple makers who invested into Robby in his lifeone of them helped Robby come to the Lord and the other helped him grow up in the Lord. But thats only part of the story. Music credit: Tony Anderson (www.tonyanderson.com).

Aug 12, 2016

35 min

Kennon Vaughan, president and founder of Downline Ministries (http://downlineministries.com), shares his discipleship journey. His disciple maker, Roy Campbell (aka Soup) shares his perspective in this narrative podcast. Music credit: Tony Anderson (www.tonyanderson.com).

Aug 4, 2016

32 min

Craig Etheredge was helping with a campus ministry group in the Dallas-Fort Worth area when he noticed how another campus minister was investing into students. That man was David Guinn at Baylor University, a nearby school. Craig saw how David lived his life, and it made a huge impact on him to make disciples, not just converts, through campus ministry. That was just the beginning of Craigs journey of disciple making. Heres Craig on that experience, which helped lay the foundation for what became DiscipleFIRST Ministries. Music credit: Tony Anderson (www.tonyanderson.com).

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.

 

Listen to conversations from these individduals Shodankeh, Jason Shepperd,Sean McDowell and others as we dive into this vital conversation at the Discipleship.org 2024 National Disciple Making Forum.

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Dive Deeper with more Disciple Making Culture Resources:

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