We continue our Thailand gathering series and hear part one of a two part case study of what God is doing in South Asia. The leader shares part of his journey into DMM and his current context which now sees over 2000 churches planted down to over 10 generations deep. Simon's journey into DMM We hear how the vision of ‘ordinary’ people leading from the beginning captured his heart as he stepped out of traditional church ministry. He share's how he was attracted to DMM because of how it is centere...
Sep 20, 2024•25 min
This is our first episode of a new series from our Thailand 24 gathering. This gathering saw fruitful movement leaders come together from 15 nations. This introduction from Dave is a call to collaborate with others as we build team. Dave draws us into a reflection on the resurrection of Christ and his triumphant procession. He hear how Jesus gave the gifts of people as an establishment of his movement. Movement Methods and Strategy Movement methods or tactics are tools in our tool belts. They in...
Sep 16, 2024•27 min
We continue our conversation with Scott and hear him share about the kingdom of God and our participation in it as we simplify our walk with God in complex cities. What is the kingdom? “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!” (Mark 1:15). Scott begins by giving us an overview of the kingdom of God from a biblical perspective. Drawing from Mark 1:15, Scott shares how the gospel is itself the kingdom. It is where we participate in God ruli...
Sep 06, 2024•37 min
We start a new series talking to disciple making leader and catalyst, Scott Crawley, as he shares on reaching cities. Scott's story Scott first shares a little bit of his story including how, as a broken young adult, he encountered Jesus in a vision which radically transformed his life. He then moved to Asia and wrestled with the question, ‘what is the Gospel?’ in a very different context to what he was used to in Australia. Over the next 20 years, Scott and his wife found themselves in differen...
Sep 02, 2024•31 min
In this episode, we have a conversation with South Asian Praxeis catalyst, Rodger, exploring his story and hearing about what God is doing among the largest number of unreached people groups in the world. Rodger is engaged in church planting and community transformation efforts not only in his home state but also across other states and beyond. Holistic Approach Rodger’s approach involves a holistic transformation, focusing on more than just the spiritual lives of people. He uses the Bible and m...
Aug 24, 2024•42 min
In this third podcast with Floyd, we continue to be challenged to “finish well”. Floyd speaks this challenge to us from a well of experience and heart. Floyd’s love for Jesus and his determination to be passionate to the end of his days speaks deeply to our hearts calling us to walk away from mediocrity and embrace our call, our God-given gifts and the opportunity to impact and influence many around us. We are in a battle for passion. The world is out to capture your passions. Floyd begins this ...
Aug 09, 2024•35 min
Floyd McClung continues to share with us and in this episode he talks about what the Spirit is doing across the world and how we can respond by laying down our lives for Jesus. Following Jesus means giving up our rights “When we die, we know we can take our heart to heaven if we follow and love Jesus…But we can take one more thing. We can take other people with us to heaven too.” ‘For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes? ...
Aug 02, 2024
Over the next three podcasts we will be delving back into the archives as we hear again from Floyd McClung who shared at Crossway Baptist Church on the motivation of our hearts as disciple makers. In this first episode, Floyd focuses in on the Father heart of God. How we are to view people. This helps us view movement as not primarily a methodology but something of God’s driving heartbeat for all humanity. "God is a loving Father and he is anxiously longing and waiting for people to return". Flo...
Jul 26, 2024•28 min
In this episode we hear from movement practitioner Steve Addison who has just returned from traveling overseas which included a book tour of his latest book, ‘Acts and the Movement of God’. Emptying the tool bag Steve bravely shares with us how God wanted him to recently completely empty his ministry ‘tool bag’ and then wait on God’s lead to know what to put back in. Steve’s podcast, turning his previous books into audiobooks and writing another book (filled with movement case studies) is what S...
Jul 19, 2024•35 min
We join Dave as he catches up with Brian and Klaus around a campfire to the west of Canberra moments after a time of praying over the city together. Embracing DMM from the heart Brian shares a little of his journey towards DMM from being a legacy church leader in the sophisticated city of Canberra. “We previously never thought about multiplying evangelism. But then we learnt that to help somebody discover God is to help them multiply.” Brian tells us the importance of having a ‘harvest is plenti...
Jul 12, 2024•28 min
We continue hearing from Jim Britts (author of the book, 21 Days to Becoming a Disciple Maker) sharing with us in this last (of three) podcast on the habits of disciple making. Obedience - Jesus' love language Jim shares how there is a big difference between learning something and obeying something. We reproduce who we are, not what we tell people to do. Proving our love for Jesus happens through putting his words into real practice, avoiding vagueness (an enemy of obedience). Multiplication - p...
Jun 28, 2024•23 min
We continue our conversation with movement catalyst Jim Britts (who has just released a new book, 21 Days to Becoming a Disciple Maker). Jim starts with some movement stories from the last few years that have come from him stepping into DMM. He shares his personal shifts to helping people come to Jesus through a disciple making process instead of starting with the sinners prayer. We hear of the next two habits of a disciple maker as Jim reminds us that we need to move from being results to habit...
Jun 21, 2024•24 min
This episode, we begin our conversations with movement catalyst Jim Britts who has just released a new book, 21 Days to Becoming a Disciple Maker. Jim’s story In 2018, after serving as a pastor for 20 years, Jim had a middle-of-the-night encounter with God who said, “Jim, I love the story of your church but you’ve missed the whole point. I called you to make disciples that make disciples and you’re not.” He started reading everything he could get his hands on about disciple making. This soon led...
Jun 14, 2024
We hear from Mike Hey again who is introduced to us by one of our leaders Jerry, who along with his wife Katie and their family, are pioneering DMM in South Australia. They are connecting with local leaders like Mike from OM who shares with us what disciple making looks like for him in Adelaide. Sailing boats blown by the wind of the Spirit Mike starts by encouraging us with a picture: We are all building teams of disciple-makers and seeking to see them sail as small boats, catching the wind of ...
May 23, 2024•39 min
In this episode, we continue on from last week’s conversation with Dave Coles, hearing about his exciting new book release, ‘Cabbages in the Desert’, the story of Aila Tasse. A story of a young Muslim being called by Jesus to see movements birthed across East Africa. Today we continue to draw out from Dave the DMM principles of how we are going to see movements in the West. Cabbages in the Desert is available here. “Baheesi have you become a pastor!?” Dave shares the stories of Baheesi and Ruth ...
May 17, 2024
In this episode we are talking to Dave Coles, hearing about his exciting new book release, ‘Cabbages in the Desert: How God transformed a devout Muslim and Catalyzed Disciple Making Movements among Unreached Peoples'. This is the story of Aila Tasse from East Africa who we have been hearing from in recent podcasts (see Aila's list of podcasts at the bottom of these show notes). Cabbages in the Desert is now available in both a hard or soft copy here. Dave Coles also returns to speak with us afte...
May 10, 2024
In this episode we conclude our series from our Launch 24 program with an awesome word from Pastor Graham Wilson, one of our Praxeis board members. Graham speaks into our sense of 'ordinariness' and feelings of disqualification compared to the greatness of Jesus and his great commission. “When we look back on our lives, God has been relentless about his purposes being worked out in our lives despite our own sense of ordinariness.” Prophetic words from Launch 24 “Worship me by stepping into what ...
May 03, 2024•25 min
We continue our series from the Launch program with Dave sharing this episode on the power of prayer in seeing breakthrough for our cities. Be inspired to prioritise prayer afresh as Dave calls us to be part of the ‘Pray for 8’ vision God has for our cities as we gather this Pentecost weekend (17-19 May). Building an alter of prayer Drawing from his past frustrations and experience, Dave paints the somber picture of the spiritually dry landscape of Australia (and the west). The current reality o...
Apr 26, 2024•48 min
As we listen to episodes from our Launch gathering in Melbourne, we continue the second of a two podcast series with Roger, Praxeis New Zealand leader as he shares on building teams in the West. Roger continues sharing stories of how he has sought to see teams birthed. Principles of forming team We’re to expect opposition when we start teams. How we operate as a team is what we’ll reproduce. Teams need to have a culture of learning. Work with what you've got. Don’t wait until you have what you t...
Apr 19, 2024•32 min
Join us as we continue this series of episodes from our Launch event in Melbourne. Hear Roger, Praxeis New Zealand leader in this first of two podcasts sharing his thoughts on building teams in the West. Building teams is crucial. If we cannot build teams, we won’t see movement. Roger will reflect over these next two podcasts about the positive experiences he has had as well as the disappointments that he has faced. Many years ago a multiplying movement happened amongst the Maori people. It is c...
Apr 12, 2024•23 min
In this episode, we will hear from Brian and Klaus from when they shared at our February Launch gathering. Brian begins by sharing the current picture in Canberra. It feels bleak as they look at the numbers of people attending church. It is an even more despairing picture when they look at the number of people actively engaging almost lost people as disciple-makers. But God has given them a vision and has been taking the whole church on a journey, challenging their understanding of how to make d...
Mar 26, 2024•46 min
We catch up with Brian and Klaus from Grace Church Canberra at our Launch gathering in Melbourne to hear their journey of the paradigm shifts that they and their local church has gone through as they completely embrace DMM. View this interview as a video here. These guys represent the Crosslink network of more than 160 churches around Australia and have a vision as a local church of seeing the whole of Canberra reached. They share how their journey into DMM included being struck by and influence...
Mar 17, 2024•22 min
We reconnect with Mike Hey at our 'Launch 24' gathering in Melbourne. In this episode Mike shares with us some of his history, serving with OM and highlights some of the principles of seeing DMM catalysed in a multicultural city like Adelaide. To see this podcast as a video, click here Seeing DMM in Adelaide Mike has a vision for Adelaide as a house of prayer for all nations. He shares how planting simple and reproducible churches starts with prayer. Mike joins with others and they pray for thei...
Mar 08, 2024•17 min
Today we hear from 'Simon', a movement catalyst. You’ll be moved to pray and respond afresh to the Great Commission as Simon shares how he is seeing movement amongst severe persecution. After sharing how he got caught up in what he calls a great commission ministry, Simon shares his three main practices: Multiply disciples Multiply leaders Multiply churches These practices have produced over 8 generations of disciples around Simon amongst many streams. Simon shares some of this perspectives on t...
Feb 19, 2024•26 min
This is our last episode with Stuart on his latest book, Prayer Power. Stuart encourages us to desperately seek to engage in persistent prayer and multiplying disciples. “God doesn’t expect the impossible from us but for us to expect the impossible from him. He wants us to see the face of the nation in the next disciple we minister to.”
Feb 08, 2024•12 min
In this, our second last episode with Stuart, he talks about the vital importance of raising prayer support. This is for every single one of us who are making disciples (whether we are so called ‘full-time’ or ‘bi-vocational’). Stuart refers to forming three important prayer groups: A core group of personal prayer intercessors who pray regularly for you A wider group of committed intercessors who are also praying frequently And regular team prayer with those ‘on team’ with you locally He emphasi...
Feb 01, 2024•11 min
In our fourth episode with Stuart, we continue exploring his book Prayer Power. But what about when it feels like God doesn’t answer our prayers? Stuart shares a personal story of how he persevered in prayer for his family to come to faith. We hear how God wants us to have his best in his grace and timing, not always what and when we want it. We can keep our faith alive by simply finding one or two other believers and pray with them.
Jan 25, 2024•11 min
Stuart continues to talk about persistent prayer, persecution and poverty being the three common threads of seeing explosive church growth around the world. We hear of his experience in China, seeing passionate and persevering prayer amongst desperate locals. Referring to seeing prayer at Crossway birthed, Stuart shares how starting a culture of prayer is a mixture of personal discipline and God’s grace.
Jan 18, 2024•17 min
In this second episode of our summer series with Dr Stuart Robinson, Stuart reflects on international revivals that were sparked by prayer. “We can work, but unless we’re working with God, its just us working. But when we pray, God works.” “The history is very clear, when God’s Spirit comes to revive an entire nation, seldom does he come to the big watering holes. He comes to the little outback places where there is just a group of little faithful people who are praying and praying." Stuart star...
Jan 16, 2024•12 min
For this summer series we are talking with Dr Stuart Robinson about his book, ‘Prayer Power: Changing The World Around You'. Stuart begins by giving us a little backstory of how he has come to deeply value prayer. After seeing breakthrough amongst an unreached people group (UPG) overseas, Stuart and his wife Margaret came back to Australia. They arrived carrying a personal experience of the power of prayer, seeing tens of thousands amongst this UPG coming to faith. The result was the birthing of...
Jan 07, 2024•12 min
