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The KC Underground Podcast

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The KC Underground Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by different leaders of the KC Underground. The primary focus is intended to offer greater language, tools and equipping around disciple-making principles for missionaries and microchurch leaders.
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Episodes

Gospel Conversations - Seth Bouchelle - Episode 33

Gospel Conversations – Seth Bouchelle: Part 1 (Episode #33) Seth’s Story [7:57] Rethinking Evangelism [14:50] “If you can’t have a conversation, you can’t have a spiritual conversation” [15:48] “Evangelism is telling the story of the God who is on mission” [16:37] “If we want to be on mission with God, we need to be on mission like God” [17:45] We don’t have an agenda for others [30:33] We have a cult of expertise [32:45] Anyone who interacts with Jesus feels like God just attended to them. [48:...

Dec 22, 202055 min

Gospel Conversations (Episode #32)

Gospel Conversations (Episode #32) Cory and Brian talk about Gospel Conversations. This is an intro to frame up the next two weeks as we interview Seth Bouchelle. What comes to mind when you hear the word “evangelism.” [3:00] Evangelism is the proclamation of the good news [6:10] Evangelism is pointing people to the good news [6:52] We can’t separate disciple-making and evangelism [8:45] Story time [10:30] Casual, Meaningful, Spiritual Conversations [17:45] Red, Yellow, Green Framework [21:50] R...

Dec 15, 202028 min

The Whole Gospel Part 3 (#31)

The Whole Gospel: Part 2 (Episode #31) Rob and Brian work through part three of “The Whole Gospel” series and discuss “The Whole Life.” The Gospel comes down to three words, “Jesus is Lord” [4:15] Move from unbelief to belief in Jesus in every area of life [8:39] Wherever there’s a gap, fill it with the goodness of God [11:22] Fruit to Root to Fruit Walk through [18:00] The 4 G’s [30:34] Resources Mentioned in Podcast Tangible Kingdom – Hugh Halter [2:30] FLESH – Hugh Halter [2:30] You Can Chang...

Dec 08, 202034 min

The Whole Gospel Part 2 (#30)

The KC Underground Podcast The Whole Gospel: Part 2 (Episode #30) Rob and Brian work through part two of “The Whole Gospel” series and discuss the three parts of the “The Whole Expression.” The Kingdom is a place on earth [3:45] What does the Kingdom of God look like? [5:00] Wherever there’s a gap, fill it with the goodness of God [11:22] The Whole Expression is “Tangible” [14:09] A Gospel Presence, Demonstration, Proclamation [15:00] Gospel Presence – Missionaries and Microchurches [15:09] Defi...

Dec 01, 202036 min

The Whole Gospel Part 1(Episode #29)

The Whole Gospel: Part 1 (Episode #29) In this first episode of a three-part series, Rob and Brian begin the conversation about how the KC Underground sees the Whole Gosple. Introduction to the Whole Gospel Idea [1:00] The perception of Christians in the West [6:30] Fractals [11:00] Simplexity [12:55] The Gospel is a three-word worldview [13:20] Jesus’s “bookshelf” is The Gospel of the Kingdom [15:10] The Saved souls Gospel [18:55] The Whole Story, The Whole Expression, and the Whole Life [24:45...

Nov 24, 202046 min

Discovery Bible Study Training (Episode #28)

Obedience-based Disciplemaking – DBS (Episode #28) Cory and Brian walk through a training on Discovery Bible Studies. While we use DBS as a primary tool for planting the gospel, it is also the tool that helps us abide in a posture of obedience-based disciple-making. DBS is the DNA of many global movements [4:00] Great Commission Game [8:00] Discovery Process and Discovery Bible Studies are different [17:30] What you disciple people to the kingdom with, is what you disciple people through the kin...

Nov 17, 202057 min

Obedience Based Disciple Making (Episode #27)

Obedience-based Disciple-making – Joe Flemming (Episode #27) Cory and Brian interview Joe Flemming. Joe has years of experience in India and West Africa bringing the gospel to unreached and unengaged people groups. He currently works for Voice of the Martyrs, walking beside followers of Jesus who experience intense persecution because of their commitment to Christ. You’ll hear how obedience is a primary expectation for disciple-making in movements and how it has shaped him as a follower of Jesus...

Nov 10, 202055 min

Obedience Based Disciple Making - Drew Jones Part 2 (Episode #26)

Obedience-based Disciple-making – Drew Jones (Episode #26) Cory and Brian interview Drew Jones for week 2. Drew has years of church planting experience in the states and internationally. You’ll hear how obedience is a primary expectation for disciple-making in movements and how it has shaped him as a follower of Jesus. It’s only God who can make a movement [4:20] Let’s make sure what we’re doing is bringing life [11:15] “Let me hear, let me obey!” [15:10] God builds his church and we obey his vo...

Nov 03, 202043 min

Obedience Based Disciple Making - Drew Jones (Episode #25)

Obedience-based Disciple-making – Drew Jones (Episode #25) Cory and Brian interview Drew Jones. Drew has years of church planting experience in the states and internationally. You’ll hear how obedience is a primary expectation for disciple-making in movements and how it has shaped him as a follower of Jesus. Introductions [0:45] Drew’s Story [2:20] How my metrics changed [7:10] The model is the message [10:10] Growth is a process we go through to multiply [11:00] Pray and Obey [17:00] We can mak...

Oct 27, 202053 min

Obedience Based Disciple-making - Rita Salter (Episode #24)

Obedience-based Disciple-making – Rita Salter (Episode #24) Cory and Brian interview Rita Salter. Rita has spent many years working with unreached and unengaged people groups in West African countries. Part of that experience is using a gospel planting method of “Storying.” This is where stories of Scripture from Creation to Christ are shared, repeated and the invitation to obedience, along with an encouragement to share the story is extended. Introductions [0:45] Rita’s call to mission [3:30] M...

Oct 20, 202040 min

Obedience Based Disciple Making - Roy Moran (Episode #23)

Cory and Brian interview local KC leader and spiritual father/grandfather, Roy Moran. Roy is a catalyst and coach for disciple-making movements and a dear friend of the Underground. Cory’s Introduction of Roy Moran [1:30] Roy fills in the details from his angle [3:45] Where does the pushback come from [8:30] Obedience is the core piece in learning to trust God [13:30] We think of obedience as duty [16:35] Obedience is an inclination of the heart first, then it comes out of us [26:12] Too much kn...

Oct 13, 202043 min

Obedience Based Disciple Making (#22)

Obedience-based Disciplemaking (Episode #22) Cory and Brian introduce the idea of “Obedience-based Disciple-making” as we make a new paradigm shift in our series on disciple-making movements. John 14 [1:15] Is obeience a bad word? [2:45] Many of us agree with Jesus, but we don’t surrender to him [8:50] Instill spiritual muscle memory early [10:09] What are we inviting people into [13:40] Obedience-based is about bending towards rhythms of Jesus [19:20] Timmy is the producer [21:35] Obedience bas...

Oct 06, 202040 min

Context Map and BLESS 5

Context Map and BLESS 5 (Episode #21) Cory and Brian are back a training on “Planting the Gospel.” This podcast revolves around two tools we use in the Underground that we’ve integrated into one tool: Context Map and BLESS 5. How Do I Start? [1:15] Know Your Context/Pray With Authority and Mission [2:55] Context Map Training [4:00] BLESS 5 Prayer [10:00] Just the Training [14:00] Resources Mentioned in Podcast Context Map and BLESS 5 Next step with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Co...

Sep 29, 202029 min

Myron Pierce (Episode 20)

Myron Pierce #2 (Episode #20) Cory and Brian are back with Myron Pierce for a third interview. Why Businesses [3:00] Colorado Springs Story [4:30] We’re a Dream Factory [21:00] Myron Speaks into Us [26:00] Resources Mentioned in Podcast myronpierce.com Next step with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground...

Sep 22, 202046 min

Myron Pierce - Second Interview (Episode #19)

Myron Pierce #2 (Episode #19) Cory and Brian are back with Myron Pierce for a second interview. Shenanigans [1:00] Multiplication Ladder [6:00] Wrung 1: Disciple [12:45] Multiplication is happening [23:00] Our presence in the inner city is an apologetic [31:00] Community Engagement [36:37] everyinnercity.com [43:01] Resources Mentioned in Podcast myronpierce.com Next step with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground...

Sep 15, 202044 min

Myron Pierce (Episode #18)

Myron Pierce (Episode #18) Rob and Brian interview Myron Pierce. Myron describes himself as a follower of Jesus, husband, father, pastor, church planter, author and entrepreneur. At the age of 18 he was facing a life sentence in prison for his life of gang banging, drugs and crime. He surrendered to Jesus and heard the Spirit say, “I’m going to get you out of prison to plant churches.” Through a series of miracles, the prison doors opened after eight years. The call of Mission Church where he le...

Sep 08, 202056 min

D'Markus Thomas-Brown (Episode #17)

D’Markus Thomas-Brown (Episode #17) Cory and Brian interview D’Markus Thomas-Brown. D’Markus is leading a church in Columbia, MO that is driven by disciple making movement principles. He originally moved to Columbia with the idea of planting a church but quickly realized that to make an impact in the lostness of that city, attractional models of church planting were not going to work. D’Markus, like the missionaries in the Underground, is an everyday missionary thinking about how to see the gosp...

Sep 01, 202041 min

Regina Foard (Episode #16)

Regina Foard (Episode #16) Cory and Brian interview Regina Foard. Regina is local to KC, and a missionary connected to the Underground. She served for a long season as a mission pastor in the local church. She has a heart for the nations in KC and a clear favor among the international community. You’re going to be moved by her knowledge of the diversity of the nations in our city. We often talk about knowing to whom you’ve been sent, you’ll hear from the overflow of her heart that Regina knows h...

Aug 25, 202050 min

Plant the Gospel, Hugh Halter (Episode #15)

Hugh Halter (Episode #15) Cory and Brian interview Hugh Halter. Hugh & Cheryl Halter began their ministry starting things from scratch in Portland, Oregon. Hugh and Cheryl have done it all from church planting to house painting to starting hockey teams for children with disabilities. Hugh has been one of the primary influencers for the Underground in learning about incarnational living and gospel planting. Currently, Hugh and Cheryl are in Alton, IL where they moved without knowing what they...

Aug 18, 202050 min

Plant the Gospel (Episode #14)

The KC Underground Podcast Plant the Gospel In this episode we're moving to the next big shift in the conversation of "Mindset to Movement," which is the move from Church Planting to Gospel Planting. We don't plant churches, we plant the gospel, make disciples and the church emerges out of new disciple-making. This is an introduction episode to the next several weeks where we will interview friends of the Underground who are practitioners and think in similar ways. We just laugh [00:14] We have ...

Aug 11, 202038 min

Prayer of Examen (Episode #12)

Episode 12 is all about the Prayer of Examen as we continue in our series on Extraordinary Prayer and Fasting. We've already had one training episode on Activating Prayer that was more about a breathing out type of prayer. The Prayer of Examen is a breathing in type of prayer. It's less about active mission and more about Jesus and His gospel, through the Spirit and the everyday stuff of life speaking over us. Our hope is that it will be a useful tool in your prayer life. A number of resources w...

Aug 04, 202025 min

Lucy Boston (episode#11)

Lucy Boston (Episode #11) Cory and Brian interview Lucy Boston. This week we’re focused on fasting. Lucy is based in Kansas City, Missouri, and is and Executive Associate and Prayer Strategist with Global Catalytic Ministries, a ministry network of Underground Churches in the Middle East bringing Muslims to Christ through Disciple Making Movements. Lucy serves this growing network through Communications, Equipping, and Ministry Development. (www.catalyticministries.com) Lucy and her husband have...

Jul 28, 202041 min

Lucy Boston (episode #10)

The KC Underground Podcast Lucy Boston (Episode #10) Cory and Brian interview Lucy Boston. Lucy is based in Kansas City, Missouri, and is and Executive Associate and Prayer Strategist with Global Catalytic Ministries, a ministry network of Underground Churches in the Middle East bringing Muslims to Christ through Disciple Making Movements. Lucy serves this growing network through Communications, Equipping, and Ministry Development. (www.catalyticministries.com) Lucy and her husband have an Isaia...

Jul 21, 202051 min

Lee Price: Activating Prayer Training (Ep #9)

Lee Price (Episode #9) Cory and Brian have a second interview with Lee Price. This week we asked Lee to walk us through each of the steps in Activating Prayer. Rather than this just being an interview about Lee’s work, this is more of an equipping podcast with some “on-the-field experiences” mixed in. The stories will demonstrate what this type of prayer looks like in action. Some of these stories, and the ideas and language that Lee uses may stretch your religious world-views a bit depending on...

Jul 14, 202043 min

Lee Price: Activating Prayer (Episode 8)

Lee Price (Episode #8) Cory and Brian interview Lee Price who is a missionary with NOVO’s Pioneering Initiatives Team. He has been a missionary for over 15 years with a focus on simple church, reproducible discipleship, and activating prayer. He lives in Colorado and has a real passion to ignite a disciple making movement and help equip emerging leaders with missional practices and strategies. He has also helped start a number of nonprofits and works part time as a consultant with local governme...

Jul 07, 202047 min

Sam Metcalf: Prayer Precedes Movement (Episode #7)

In this episode of the Underground Podcast, Brian and Cory interview Sam Metcalf, the president of Novo. Sam and Patty Metcalf were one of four families that founded Novo in 1980, and he has served as president since 1985. He holds an undergraduate degree with honors from the University of Virginia, a master’s degree from the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Seminary, and a doctorate from the Fuller School of Theology. He also is an adjunct professor of Missional Practice in the SIS at ...

Jun 30, 202043 min

Extraordinary Prayer and Fasting

Extraordinary Prayer and Fasting (Episode #6) Cory and Brian talk about how movement catalysts need to make certain paradigm shifts and the first extraordinary prayer and fasting. It’s the beginning of every movement. It’s the beginning of our “missionary pathway” in KC Underground. How do we begin to live into this deeply? Cory’s Article [1:30] We’re all invited to be disciple-making leaders [2:00] Add one extra thing [3:10] Our Prayers have to match our vision [5:15] Breathe in and Breathe out...

Jun 23, 202027 min

We take care of the depth, God takes care of the breadth: Becca Patton (Episode #5)

Cory and Brian interview Becca Patton. Becca is a campus minister at the University of Evansville in Indiana. In this role she engages and disciples students to become confident carriers of the Gospel through outreaches, discipleship training, leadership development and ownership of Christ’s Kingdom vision. Becca’s calling is to make disciples of Jesus that impact their campus, community and the nations. This isn’t your normal campus ministry. Becca and her team have a desire to implement discip...

Jun 16, 202045 min
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