This is part 2 of a conversation Freedom in Christ Ministries had at our Forum this year on how your identity in Christ informs and enables you to have conversations about race.
Dec 07, 2022•58 min•Ep. 535
How do we as believers respond to the heightened racial tension in our country today? Freedom in Christ Ministries believes that our spiritual identity, not our ethnic or racial identity should guide our conversations. Learn how your identity in Christ informs and enables you to have conversations about race and experience for your self what Freedom in Christ is all about.
Dec 05, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 534
Susan Freese (founder and president of All In Ministries International ) talked to us about healthy short term missions. You can more wisely steward your short-term missions to make a long-term impact with one addition: discipling indigenous women. Worldwide women believers do not know they are loved, valued, or have a divine purpose of enjoying God and exalting Him by making disciples. When you intentionally invest in local women—they are radically and fundamentally changed. They’ll risk their ...
Nov 30, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 533
Susan Freese (founder and president of All In Ministries International ) spoke about launching (or re-launching) thriving women's ministries. To encourage and equip women to fulfill their part in the body of Christ requires intentionality. Women's ministry in the local church is not meant to be superficial or siloed. With your support, women's ministry can be one of the most evangelistic, disciple-making drivers of the local church. That’s because in single-gender environments, women feel more c...
Nov 28, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 532
I wanted to inform you of a couple d.org announcements: 1. The next National Disciple Making Forum is coming to Indiana April 26-27, 2023 at Traders Point Christian Church Indianapolis. Get the super early bird special on tickets by clicking here (sale ends soon). If you're interested in reading an article written by our point leader Bobby Harrington about the theme for the event, check it out here . 2. Help d.org out with a year end gift by purchasing the Digital Access Pass for the 2022 Nation...
Nov 21, 2022•5 min•Ep. 531
Dr. Carl A. Williamson (Assistant Professor, Endowed Chair of Discipleship and Church Planting at Harding University ) shares a proven model for discipleship that can be used in a variety of settings and places and is simple enough for anyone to get started right away.
Nov 16, 2022•59 min•Ep. 530
This is Renew.org 's third track session at this year's National Disciple Making Forum and a continuation of the conversation between Paul Huyghebaert (lead minister at Grace Chapel Church of Christ ) and Shodankeh Johnson (part of the Core Team of New Generations ) about disciple making movement principles. Shodankeh shares amazing stories of church planting and disciple making movements in Africa while Paul describes the practical things his church has implemented to get the ball rolling here ...
Nov 14, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 529
This is Renew.org 's second track session at this year's National Disciple Making Forum. In this episode, Paul Huyghebaert (lead minister at Grace Chapel Church of Christ ) interviews Shodankeh Johnson (part of the Core Team of New Generations ) on how the North American church can adopt disciple making movement principles to see a movement break out in the States. Shodankeh shares key insights that we can use today....
Nov 08, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 528
This is Renew.org 's first track session from this year's National Disciple Making Forum. In this episode, Donnie Williams (lead pastor of Lifepointe Church ) teaches on what his church has done to switch from a more attractional model to a Bible centered model. He discusses what it looks like to combat culture's leanings though sound biblical teaching and Discipleship.
Nov 07, 2022•34 min•Ep. 527
A child’s worldview is developed at a young age. Parents can and need to be present during this process along with partnering with church leaders to help disciple their children. Matt Markins (president and CEO of Awana ) gives us some practical tips for raising up children who faithfully follow Jesus.
Nov 02, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 526
With the dramatic shift in technology and American lifestyles compared to the past, Matt Markins (president and CEO of Awana ) describes some "old maps" of doing things compared to the new ways of dealing with the difficulties that children face today.
Oct 31, 2022•51 min•Ep. 525
This was BetterMan 's fourth track session at the 2022 National Disciple Making Forum. Chris Harper (Executive Director) gets really practical in this episode about how to give men good theology through cohorts at your church.
Oct 26, 2022•59 min•Ep. 524
This was BetterMan 's third track session at the 2022 National Disciple Making Forum. Chris Harper (Executive Director) talks about the things we do that turn men away from engaging in church.
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 523
This was BetterMan 's second track session at the 2022 National Disciple Making Forum. Chris Harper (Executive Director) gives insight on the importance of reaching men for Christ. He discusses what it looks like to be "good problems" as men for the sake of the gospel.
Oct 19, 2022•59 min•Ep. 522
This was BetterMan 's first track session at the 2022 National Disciple Making Forum. Chris Harper (Executive Director) taught us about giving men a higher calling - to become godly and lead their family and in their social context.
Oct 17, 2022•44 min•Ep. 521
Matt Dabbs (director of the Discipleship.org Collective ) has a conversation with Rich Knopp who discusses his ministry, Room for Doubt . He conveys how this ministry ties into parents discipling and raising up their kids in the Lord. Join us in this great conversation around parents raising up their children in the Lord, and how Rich views his ministry impacting Discipleship.
Sep 28, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 519
We are taking a break from Sep 29 - Oct 17 to focus on the National Disciple Making Forum and to create new episodes for the podcast. Tune back in Oct 17 for more episodes.
Sep 27, 2022•59 sec•Ep. 520
Matthew Dabbs interviews Alice Matagora about her new book "How To Save the World: Disciplemaking Made Simple" . Come see Alice speak at the National Disciple Making Forum in Nashville, TN by clicking here .
Sep 26, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 518
This episode is part 2 of a conversation between Matt Markins (president and CEO of Awana ) and Discipleship.org Collective Director Matt Dabbs on what it looks like to Disciple your kids to make a long term impact.
Sep 21, 2022•57 min•Ep. 517
This episode features Matt Markins (president and CEO of Awana ) having a conversation with Discipleship.org Collective Director Matt Dabbs about discipling our kids and the things we must do to cultivate long-lasting faith within our children.
Sep 19, 2022•54 min•Ep. 516
Justin Gravitt ( Navigators Church Ministries ) and Tony Miltenberger ( Spirit & Truth ) got personal with us about their experiences with disciple making cultures and shared with us 4 key points for beginning a process of shifting things at your church.
Sep 14, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 515
This episode features Dave Buehring (founder/president of Lionshare ) and Kevin Townsend (senior pastor of Sunnyslope Christian Center ) discussing the transformation that can happen within life-on-life discipling relationships.
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 514
Glenn and Craig from discipleFIRST sat down to share with us their thoughts on the differences between the superstar church leader versus the disciple-making leader. Register for the National Disciple Making Forum here .
Sep 07, 2022•56 min•Ep. 513
This episode came from a teaching on our Discipleship.org Collective where Jim Putman (senior pastor of Real Life Ministries Post Falls ; co-founder of Relational Discipleship Network ) shared with us about how the discipleship culture at Real Life works in training people to become disciple makers.
Sep 05, 2022•41 min•Ep. 512
Dane Allphin hopped on the Collective and shared with us 4 key principles to creating a disciple making culture within your church. Check out Navigators Church Ministries by clicking here .
Aug 31, 2022•58 min•Ep. 511
Our point leader Bobby Harrington caught up with Curt Erskine and talked about his new book "Recreated to Be Like God" on our discipleship.org Collective . They chatted about the book and also about making sure we as well as our neighbors have counted the cost on what it means to really follow Jesus. Get your free ebook version of "Recreated to Be Like God" here ....
Aug 29, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 510
This episode features Paul Huyghebaert and Rob Shaver of Grace Chapel Church . They shared a conversation about implementing disciple making movement principles from around the world in our already established North American churches.
Aug 24, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 509
This audio was taken from a show that ran in the discipleship.org Collective and it features Greg Ogden and Ralph Rittenhouse of The Global Discipleship Initiative. Greg and Ralph talked to us about the miracles that can happen at any church with micro groups.
Aug 17, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 508
This audio was taken from a show that ran in the discipleship.org Collective and it features Steve McCoy from smallcircle . Steve talked to us about what it looks like to disciple people one and one, impact that can have, and some tools to help you along your way.
Aug 15, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 507
This audio was taken from a show that ran in the discipleship.org Collective and it features The Bonhoeffer Project team. Dan Leitz (President and COO of TBP) talked with us about some ways to produce fruitfulness in the ones you are discipling and also about the correct way to shift church cultures towards discipling making.
Aug 10, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 506