In this episode, one of our leaders, Gabi from Hungary shares about how she is multiplying leaders in Eastern Europe. Focusing on the Roma Gypsy people, Gabi and her team are being swept up in God moving powerfully amongst these people. And all in the midst of the Ukrainian war. Since being invited to help see newly baptised gypsies discipled from Carpathia (in Ukraine), Gabi shares some of the keys and tools she's been learning to see movement go viral and take off. Some of the keys have been: ...
Mar 08, 2023•32 min
In this podcast we talk to Lynda Wilson who leads us in a discussion about multiplying harvest prayer. She briefly talks about her rich history in church and prayer. Then leading us through an overview of scripture Lynda shares her journey of understanding this from a scriptural point of view. Some key pickups are Prayer is part of the going You multiply the harvest, you will multiply the prayer You can't do it alone Prayer helped the early church with opposition and trials Prayer isn't seperate...
Feb 28, 2023•40 min
So what do we actually do once we find a person of peace? In this, our last episode of David Watson’s training, we are walked through some of the coaching and mentoring questions we can use when starting a movement. David emphasises how important it is to focus in on coaching the right people who are starting to facilitate Discovery Bible Studies (DBS). David calls the facilitator of a group the first level of leadership in movement. He describes how all the steps of the DBS are vital to form he...
Feb 08, 2023•29 min
David shares with us a number of counter intuitive or paradoxical statements his church planters have developed when it comes to seeing movement. These include: Go slow to go fast Focus on the few (or one) to win the many Share only when and where people are ready to hear A new / inexperienced insider is more effective than a highly trained, mature outsider Start with creation not Christ Its about discovery, not preaching or teaching People learn best what they discover Obedience is more importa...
Jan 31, 2023•28 min
David shares with us about finding People of Peace (POP) after sharing the Engage Africa 'Person of Peace' video. He gives us some characteristics to keep in mind when identifying POP within communities. We also hear of a story of a Person of Peace before David explains the difference between group and personal or mass evangelism. Groups are vital when it comes to movement, however David tells us that we are likely to see 8-10 groups fail. Despite this, groups do work since they replicate more g...
Jan 24, 2023•26 min
This episode, David talks about the core values behind the Discovery Group process. He makes special mention of how we need to be builders of communities in our modern urban contexts since there is often a lack of community. He also emphasises the need for participation and no experts in the group for movement to happen. Every culture, David says, has to develop its own response to love, care and worship in their own context. This allows church to form from the Discovery Group process. If you al...
Jan 17, 2023•29 min
David Watson continues our summer series on starting a DMM. This episode, he starts by reflecting on the importance of prayer after showing us the ‘Prayer and Fasting’ clip from the Engage Africa video series (we recommend watching this before or after listening to this week’s episode). Listen to David walk through one strategy of setting up a prayer network that can model prayer to others. This involves making a list of 30 people and allocate each to a day in the month. Then each day each perso...
Jan 10, 2023•24 min
In this first of six episodes, we rewind the clock to April 2016 when we first had David Watson come visit Australia and train us in starting a Disciple Making Movement (DMM). In this episode, David introduces the importance of the role of a coach in DMM. He begins by sharing with us how we need to have our favourite Christian beliefs challenged to embrace movements since everyone who wants to be a Christian is already a Christian. Our job is not to make people like our Christianity, but to help...
Jan 03, 2023•19 min
Why the incarnation is the reason that we stand in wonderment and worship!
Dec 24, 2022•17 min
We jump into our second podcast with Rodrick. Here we discuss how to multiply workers for the harvest field. To focus on Intentional training. This podcast is full of gold! 'A disciple is not a disciple until they become a disciple maker' & 'to reach a great harvest feed you must create a great harvest force.' I encourage you to take notes and go back over some of these comments from a proven movement leader.
Dec 07, 2022•34 min
Dave is speaking from India to Rodrick, a movement leader who visited many of us in Australia back in 2012. Rodrick firstly gives us an insight into what is happening today sharing about the spiritual darkness across much of the nation. He then dives into some of the reasons why movement is sparking. He highlights three areas: The habit of long term prayer and fasting by exisiting believers. This models prayer to the next generation of disciples. The Holy Spirit raising up “sons of soil” (or fir...
Dec 01, 2022•29 min
We hear from Paul King in Middlesborough UK via a podcast done by Ben from Mission Somerset in England. As we join this podcast half way through, Paul is sharing how he is doing mission. There is so much here we can learn and be challenged to do as we listen to a sold out disciple maker share some great stories. Through the stories Paul shares, he emphasises the importance of being a 'family' and meeting each other’s needs on top of any other desire. Paul describes how their community is becomin...
Nov 22, 2022•50 min
Roger joins us again to share how he has stepped back into New Zealand (NZ) amidst the many challenges facing the nation. He speaks about the key lesson of starting with a team and how thankful he is to be on mission with others. Some of the other building blocks Roger highlights to us include the importance of perseverance and patience when it comes to seeing movement in a western and often urban context like NZ. He emphasises how God is simply requiring us to obey him. He also describes the va...
Nov 15, 2022•26 min
This episode we have the privilege of hearing the journey of Jesus calling Roger, our Praxeis New Zealand leader, to follow him. As a young man at age 17, God launched Rog into global missions. This saw him travel the nations of Asia with YWAM. We hear how God captured Roger’s heart as he started to reveal to him what he calls God’s ‘puzzle pieces’ along the way. Roger reflects on how one of the key missing pieces on his journey was in asking the wrong question. Instead of asking ‘how do we do c...
Nov 08, 2022•37 min
What are the irreducible elements of movements? How can we get started? Drawing on scripture, experienced movements trainer and researcher, Stan joins Dave to answer some of these fundamental questions. Stan begins highlighting some of the essentials of movements. Reflecting on his research of identifying 1,967 movements in the world today, Stan notices how movements often start movements. Perhaps the biggest barrier to movement he says, is the existing church and its paradigms. But where do we ...
Oct 24, 2022•52 min
We hear from Graham and Lynda Wilson from New Zealand (NZ) as they gather with us for Tribe Time in Canberra. Graham and Linda carry a deep heart for prayer and global missions. They are pastoring at GraceWay Church, Hamilton NZ. Graham is also on our Praxeis board. You’ll be greatly encouraged by listening to the wisdom and passion these guys have for the lost. They take us back into a little of their story of how God swept them up into mission, now being involved with Praxeis and DMM (Discipli...
Oct 18, 2022•51 min
Aila returns this episode as he brings a training on starting churches as we gather for ‘Tribe Time’ in Australia. Listen to Aila share stories from East Africa on some of the key principles to seeing churches birthed that can multiply disciples. He says we need a paradigm shift. To move from focusing on the forms to the functions of church. We also need to not just engage with individuals but families to see churches start. If we begin with the vision and DNA of multiplication at the beginning,...
Oct 11, 2022•54 min
Listen to Dave share on God’s vision for lostness from his second sermon at Crossway Baptist Church. Dave reflects on miraculous and inspiring stories from his and Colleen’s missionary training in Mumbai. He asks how we will respond to Jesus’ perspectives in Luke 15, describing heaven’s celebration of the lost being found. Referring to the urgency of mission in Luke 14 and 16, Jesus leaves us with a choice of either joining with heaven’s celebration of lostness or not. Get ready to surrender eve...
Sep 29, 2022•35 min
Jesus' final words to His disciples were, "Go into all the world and make disciples...". More than just a statement to those present at the time, His words commission every believer throughout the ages. This episode, we hear Dave share at Crossway Baptist (where Praxeis was birthed out of) on how Jesus left His mission in the hands of ordinary people so that every one of us gets to play a part. Be encouraged afresh to allow Jesus and his last words form your identity as his disciple.
Sep 20, 2022•40 min
We hear from Steve and Mel Behrens this week. They share how they are flying in and out of indigenous communities on the Cape (Cape York, in Far North Queensland). Discovery Groups are starting that are multiplying out. They share about how they are initially connecting into these remote places. The Behrens set up what they call 'fire-side yarns'. These are gathering where they seek to form church for the locals. They tell us how some the keys is to be really intentional when inviting people to ...
Sep 07, 2022•32 min
This is our final episode with Ralph Moore as he looks at some of the keys for multiplication in the West. Ralph gives us a picture of how our ecclesiology (understanding of church) is what often stops multiplication. Recognising and validating simple models of church is essential. He also shares on the importance of church leadership and what qualifies someone to be a leader of a church. Reflecting on our post-Christian culture in the West, Ralph shares how recognising simple and small forms of...
Aug 31, 2022•25 min
Ralph joins us again and shares with us this week about what it practically looks like to make disciples and helps us answer the question, ‘what does New Testament church look like in the West?’. He unpacks what he calls the disciple making continuum where people are asked three simple questions: What is God saying? What will you do about it? How can we help and pray for you? Ralph gives us some great insights into the essentials of church by referring to ‘micro-churches’. Instead of starting wi...
Aug 22, 2022•30 min
Over the coming weeks we have the privilege of listening to Ralph Moore. Ralph is an American church planter and multiplier. In 1971 he started Hope Chapel in California with just 12 people. Since then up to 2500 churches have been planted through his ministry with now a quarter of a million people in churches. Ralph gives us great insight into what movement in the West looks like. Today we will hear him share part of his early story, including his experiences as part of the Jesus Movement in th...
Aug 16, 2022•26 min
A really great follow up podcast with Aila Tasse from Kenya as he opens up to us the importance of prayer, the role of the Spirit and forming church to see movement. He is also speaks to many of us who finds ourselves in Western contexts. Aila shares how crucial it is to be designing our personal lives around the areas of what he calls continuous, concentrated and scheduled prayer. He then points to Acts to describe how the Spirit is the driver of movement and leads us into mission as we pray. A...
Aug 09, 2022•50 min
We have the privilege to hear from Dr. Aila Tasse from Africa over the next two podcasts. Many of us have heard Aila share as part of the ‘Engage Africa’ training videos. Today we hear him share part of his story of seeing movements birthed in Africa. After meeting Jesus as a Muslim teenager in northern Kenya, God soon called Aila to 14 unreached people groups (UPGs). This was through a burning bush type vision where God asked Aila, “can cabbages grow in the desert?”. We hear from Aila how he st...
Aug 02, 2022•38 min
Mike (from Hong Kong) catches up with us again this week. I (Dave) was meeting online with him recently and wanted to record his reflections on his time in Germany with his family. Compared to the mostly 'non-Christian' population of Hong Kong, Mike found himself engaging with mostly 'post-Christian' Germans on this recent trip. He realised there was a whole different number of barriers to break through in this context when engaging spiritually. Mike highlights the importance of being ready to o...
Jul 26, 2022•45 min
It’s really great to have Simone Smith share some of her journey with us. Simone is from Echuca in regional Victoria, Australia. Simone carries a God given vision for her country town. She paints a picture of how God called her to be part of his mission force. Something she didn’t expect to happen as a younger person. Simone draws out the significance of God shifting her from what she calls egocentric prayers to catching God’s heart for the lost in prayer. Being a young mother of four, Simone te...
Jul 19, 2022•37 min
This week we have the joy of hearing from Nazar. He is part of the Iraqi team in Sydney's western suburbs. Nazar recently shared his story with us as part of a Praxeis 'Reaching Refugees' training. He carries a vision for his own Iraqi people, especially those with disabilities. This is a story of how Jesus has called Nazar to be his disciple. Nazar speaks openly about the challenges of being a refugee. You will hear similarities to other familiar stories like of Cornelius in Acts. Well before m...
Jul 13, 2022•39 min
This is part two of our conversation with Prof Jacqualine Grey (Professor of Biblical Studies at Alphacrucis) as we continue our series on Courageous Women. In this episode, Jacqui shares about how Jesus counter culturally treated the women of his day. We’ll see for example, how radical it would have been for Jesus to include women as his disciples. Like in the story of Mary and Martha. The New Testament shows us how both men and women were equally valued. It would have been seen as vital that b...
Jul 04, 2022•42 min
We continue our series on 'Courageous Women' as we seek to affirm and encourage women on mission. We're diving deep over the next two weeks as we look at a biblical perspective on women in ministry. It's great to have Rev Prof Jacqueline Grey with us from Alphacrucis University College. Jacqui shares some of her own background as a woman in the church who has sought to study the scriptures. She then begins to unpack some of the context women faced in New Testament times. For instance, was it nor...
Jun 27, 2022•33 min
