Our goal is to help followers of Jesus dive deep into what it means to be an everyday disciple maker. In these 20 minute episodes, we will talk about culture, practice, and multiplication of disciple making in the local church.
Episodes
Feb 6, 2024
Feb 6, 2024
21 min
Takeaway: Every pathway begins with the first step be bold enough to take it!
Action Step: Evaluate where you are in developing a disciple making pathway–and take your next step!
Show Notes:
Step 1: Determine Your Values.
Step 2: Describe the destination.
Step 3: Discuss the Reality of Your Current Culture.
Step 4: Decide what practices everyone will do.
Step 5: Design a step-by-step process that outlines WHAT will happen WHEN.
Step 6: Dig up and discard barriers.
Step 7: Discern how to continually improve your pathway.
https://www.justingravitt.com/blog/marks-of-a-disciple-making-culture-discipleship-pathway
Jan 23, 2024
Jan 23, 2024
19 min
Takeaway: The first step of building a disciple making pathway is to develop clarity on what problems you expect it to solve.
Action Step: Take the time to evaluate or plan your pathway. Get clear about what you expect from it once it’s complete?
Show Notes:
A Discipleship Pathway Solves THIS Problem, but not THIS One
Jan 9, 2024
Jan 9, 2024
20 min
The purpose of having a clear picture of a disciple BEFORE a pathway!
Takeaway: You can’t make it or be it if you can’t see it.
Action Step: Take time to collaboratively develop and share your picture of a disciple.
Show Notes:
Dec 26, 2023
Dec 26, 2023
19 min
Recalibrate: to calibrate again. To check or adjust by comparison with a standard. To mark the scale of a measuring instrument.
“We may want God, but we want something else more, and we will get what we want the most.” AW Tozer
“We fail to reach our goals, not because of obstacles, but because of a clear path to lesser goals.” -Robert Brault
Takeaway: Recalibration is essential to abiding. It involves resting, rooting, and pruning
Action Step: Take at least 3-4 hours to recalibrate this holiday season.
Show Notes:
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality - Scazzero
Dec 12, 2023
Dec 12, 2023
20 min
We are trying to make CREATIVE DISCIPLES, not simply PROFICIENT DM.
Concepts: Open Faith, Open Bible, Open Life
Takeaway: Disciple making requires us to become something and for us to help others become something.
Action Step: What are you doing to become an equipped disciple maker?
Show Notes:
Disciple Towards Proficiency or Creativity?
Consumerism Articles from Justin
Nov 28, 2023
Nov 28, 2023
19 min
Disciple making DID NOT happen outside of an INVITATION, A CONFIRMATION, A DESTINATION, and a MISSION OF REPRODUCTION (we cannot reproduce what happens below the water line of our awareness).
Takeaway: Common context creates common movement which creates common culture.
Action Step: Evaluate the context of your disciple making relationships.
Show Notes:
Nov 14, 2023
Nov 14, 2023
19 min
Takeaway: Jesus’ style matters because His style is to be our style.
Action Step: Discuss with the person you are in a DM relationship with: Do you engage Jesus as a true disciple would? Do you disciple others like Jesus would?
Show Notes:
Practicing the Way - John Mark Comer
Oct 31, 2023
Oct 31, 2023
19 min
Developing Appropriate Tension in a Disciple Making Relationship
HOW: 1. Listen - For values, priorities, how time in being spent, beliefs about self and God 2. Ask Questions - About time with God, those they are discipling, inconsistencies/incongruences you hear. Places where they can do something/more to make a difference. 3. Walk them to the application. What are you going to do about it? What are you taking with you from our time today? Revisit those when you get back together.
Takeaway: If your disciple making relationship doesn’t have dynamic tension in the relationship you’ll end up stuck.
Action Step: Evaluate the level of the tension in the disciple making relationship, what tools do you need to start using?
Show Notes:
Oct 17, 2023
Oct 17, 2023
21 min
Takeaway: Friendship and disciple making are not the same, but they may overlap. It’s important to understand the difference!
Action Step: Evaluate your disciple making relationships and make sure you aren’t stuck in the friend zone.
Show Notes:
Matthew 4:19
Luke 10:1
Oct 3, 2023
Oct 3, 2023
21 min
4 Things We Know God Does in Disciple Making:
- Entrusts someone to us. (John 17:6,”I have revealed you to those you gave me out of the world. They were yours, but you gave them to me and they obeyed your every word.”)
- Moves their heart. (Proverbs 21:1, “The king’s Heart is in the hand of the Lord, He directs it like a watercourse wherever he pleases.)
- Guides, Counsels, and Convicts from within through the Holy Spirit.
(John 14:26, “But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.” John 16:8, “...he will convict the world of sin and guilt in regard to sin, righteousness, and judgment.”)
- Provides Growth.
( 1 Cor. 3:5-6 What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe--as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.”)
2 Tim. 2:21 (“Those who cleanse themselves from the latter will be instruments for special purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.”)
Takeaway: The work of making disciple makers is one that God shares with us. He will occasionally do it on His own, but it’s intended to be a collaborative work.
Action Step: Pray and Trust God to do His part in those you are discipling.
Show Notes:
John 17:6, Prov. 21:1, John 14:26, John 16:8, 1 Cor. 3:5-6, 2 Tim. 2:21