Cory and Brian discuss how we need to form teams to be more effective in disciple-making. We see "going in teams" in Scripture and we see "going in teams" in global disciple-making movements. We need to embrace this paradigm here and now as well. "Don't go alone. Always go in teams." Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground...
Cory and Brian talk about engaging in prayer early and often in our disciple-making. The idea that we really want to get around is that this is also engaging the supernatural. In some ways, this is a shortcut to spiritual conversations. We talk about the why, what, and how to make prayer a natural part of our conversation with people in our missional contexts. Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground...
Cory and Brian interview Alex and Hannah Absalom. Alex and Hannah have been involved in church planting and microchurch leadership for nearly three decades. They have served the broader church for over 20 years, speaking and ministering in person in over 15 countries and almost 25 US states (and many more virtually!). For the past four years, they have been full-time with Dandelion Resourcing, working with a vast range of leaders, churches, and denominations. At a local level, they have personal...
Cory and Brian interview Jill and Bill Randall. Jill and Bill have been church planters and now lead the Gospel Movements Team for Novo, which is a band of creative missionaries sent to multiply movements of the gospel and mobilize the church for mission around the world. In 30-plus years of ministry, Jill and Bill have trained countless teams and leaders in normalizing the supernatural within disciple-making. Most important of those teams is their own family. We get to hear their stories of how...
Cory and Brian interview Sarah Hunter and Doug Balzer who work for the Western District of the Canadian Christian and Missionary Alliance. Both Sarah and Doug naturally incorporate the supernatural into their everyday disciple-making. We want to hear how and why this has been an important part of their work. You can learn more by reading Doug's works found at dougbalzer.com
Cory and Brian interview Chris Caputo and discuss Doug Balzer's article, "Myth-Busting Divine Healing - 10 Shifts." We work through the ten myths with a bit of commentary and our thoughts. Next week we will interview Doug Balzer and Sarah Hunter of the Western District of the Canadian C&MA about their lean toward the supernatural in disciple-making. Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground...
Cory and Brian interview Chris Caputo on our next nugget in disciple-making: Tap into the supernatural. All through the New Testament, we see the supernatural accompanying the movement of the Gospel. We also see it fully in the writings of the early church fathers and mothers up until the time of Constantine. We also see this now in global disciple-making movements. The supernatural, signs and wonders, are not just for another time and place. They are for us here and now. Subscribe to our newsle...
In this episode, Cory and Brian interview Jason Gardiner, a local disciple-making leader with the KC Underground. Jason has an extensive background in ministry from campus ministries reaching hundreds of students, to planting churches that became megachurches, to global stadium crusades. Now, he has intentionally stepped away from "professional ministry" to be a car salesman and an ordinary disciple-maker where he's consistently leading people in disciple-making relationships and reproducing lea...
In this episode, Cory and Brian interview John Schwartz, the director of Ichthus, a ministry engaging students at Kansas State University. John walks through the Biblical concept of obedience and the relationship between hearing and obeying.
In this episode, Cory and Brian focus on another nugget in disciple-making we call "A Culture of Obedience." Once again, we will explore the what, why, and how of fostering a culture of obedience that leads to transformation, the presence of God, and a multiplication of leaders. "Obedience is about the foundation of everything we talk about." Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground...
In this episode, Cory and Brian interview Rob Wegner, one of the directors in the KC Underground. Rob is one of the best "celebrators" we know. We will explore how Rob has cultivated a life of celebration, what has shaped that and why he continues to lead with that posture. "Gratitude is an act of repentance...It reminds us, 'I can't do this on my own.'" Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground...
In this episode, Cory and Brian kick off a new series for 2023 where we examine "nuggets in disciple-making." The purpose of this series is to offer simple tools, frameworks, or disciplines to everyday people who are committed to disciple-making. We want to step outside of the theoretical and deeply into the practical. "Celebration of the little things helps us fight comparison, prevent burnout, increase our worship." Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us f...
We're kicking off a new year and a new prayer and podcast series for 2023. Every great move of God begins with cultivating extraordinary prayer and fasting. Tuesdays are a day of prayer and fasting for the KC Underground. The first Tuesday of each month in 2023 will feature a Psalm that will help our community to pray corporately. We hope you'll head over to the prayer page at KC Underground and download the guide. Today we will interview the author of these prayer guides, Mike "Sully" Sullivan,...
In the final week of this series on the Missionary Pathway, Cory and Brian discuss multiplication. While we certainly desire a multiplication of microchurches, that is not all we mean by this word. We want to see multiplication at every level: Prayer and fasting, Incarnational living, gospel planting, disciples made and more. Our hope is that by following in the rhythms and the ways of Jesus, multiplication will be a natural overflow.
In week four of this series on the Missionary Pathway, Cory and Brian discuss how microchurches emerge out of new disciple-making. This is phase four of the missionary pathway. As new disciples are made out of the harvest, new forms of the church are required. We discuss the definition the KC Underground holds for "church" and the rhythms of these extended spiritual families. "We don't primarily put Christians into groups on the backside of a weekend service and call it a microchurch. We want to...
In this episode, Cory and Brian move the conversation in this mini-series on the Missionary Pathway to phase three: Plant The Gospel. We start this episode with a discussion about a more holistic understanding of the gospel. A better understanding of the gospel will help us more faithfully live out a gospel-centered life. The result is that we become a gospel presence in our networks where we can demonstrate and proclaim Good News. "The Gospel that Jesus proclaimed was that the Kingdom of God ha...
The podcast you listen to will be the sixth in a series during 2022 around the themes of grace and supplication. These episodes will be dropped at various points throughout the year. We hope that you will head over to kcunderground.org/prayer-fasting and grab the prayer guide associated with this podcast. As the KC Underground, we believe that we can only go as far and as fast as we can on our knees. We have committed as a network to extraordinary prayer and fasting. This series of podcasts on g...
In this episode, Cory and Brian take the conversation to week 2 of the Missionary Pathway which is Live Like A Missionary. We will discuss the rhythms and resources of how disciple-makers can live incarnational lives in their context, just like Jesus did. "The BLESS rhythms can be contextualized for any place and time. They are the rhythms of Jesus." Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground...
In this episode, Cory and Brian begin a short series around the Missionary Pathway. The missionary pathway are the five phases that the KC Underground uses to train everyday people in disciple-making principles and practices. In this mini-series, we will spend a week focusing on the five phases, why that phase is important and the resources and rhythms to support leaders in that phase. This week we look at the phase of extraordinary prayer and fasting. "Prayer always precedes movement. Prayer is...
In this episode, Cory and Brian interview John Darr. John is a licensed clinical social worker living in the St. Louis area. He's an ordinary follower of Jesus who is seeking to make disciples in the everyday stuff of life. Through regular training with the KC Underground, John has clarified his missional context, learned to live in deeply incarnational ways in that context, and see people surrender their life to Jesus. You'll hear in John's story how he began to move through the missionary path...
In this episode, Brian interviews the women of the E-2 Hub. This Hub exists to virtually equip disciplemakers in the US army wherever they are sent locally. While we heard from the leadership of the E2 Hub in last week's episode, this week we hear more specifically the story of the women connected with this Hub who are serving the US Army. "I'd like to have a military wife in my corner any day of the week...crumbling is not an option." In this episode, Brian interviews the women of the E-2 Hub. ...
In this episode, Brian interviews the E-2 Hub of the KC Underground. This Hub exists to virtually equip disciple-makers in the US Army wherever they are sent locally. You'll hear about the challenges they face as disciple-makers, and how they have overcome those challenges to in order to multiply disciplemakers. "You have a mission! And you're not alone!" Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground...
In this interview, Cory and Brian interview Tim Garrett. Tim is a KC Underground missionary but is also on staff with Frontiers, a mission organization taking the gospel to the nations. Primarily, Tim works with disciple-making movement leaders in East Africa. Tim joins the podcast this week to discuss how dreams and visions are often a part of gospel movement and poses the question, "Are we desperate for God to move in this way?" "When you get desperate, then you start crying out to God, 'Pleas...
In this interview, Joe and Dr. Jim discuss Church history, ministry metrics, and how asking the right questions can better align our hearts to join God in God's work in the world. Issues of character formation, spiritual formation, and discipleship are addressed as well. Exponentgroup.org Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground...
In this episode, Cory and Brian interview regular contributor Joe Reed. This is a set up episode for an interview Joe has with Dr. Jim Singleton on what we count in disciple-making movements and why that's important. "We can't just worry about multiplication. We have to make sure we're multiplying healthy disciples." Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground...
In this episode, Cory and Brian interview Bryan Dolinary, a local disciple-making leader in the KC Underground. Bryan has been engaged in seeing microchurches emerge in the KC area for over 15 years and currently is part of leading a microchurch in the Piper community. In this episode, we drill down into the practice of prayer walking. "God was calling me to prayer walk these neighborhoods to help create good soil that he would move in." Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newslett...
In this episode, Cory and Brian interview Phil Alessi. Phil was a key mentor for Cory around engaging the jail context. As an outsider, Phil had to effectively utilize the Person of Peace strategy to see movement in the jails where he was planting the gospel. Finding a person of peace in your own context will accelerate mission. "You will be most effective in the places where you have a reason to exist." Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Su...
In this episode, Cory and Brian interview Mike Jensen. Mike is a disciple-making and microchurch leader with the KC Underground. He was once a pastor of predominant model church in a mainline denomination. Now Mike is a local business leader in KC and also leads a freedom and deliverance ministry called Freedom Fighters. Along with the local Freedom Fighters work, he and his wife also travel the country and train other teams in this important work. "I was an abnormal Christian. I wasn't actually...
In this episode, Cory and Brian interview Jon DeWitt. Jon is one of the primary leaders within the Share the Hope network. His story begins as a person attending Share the Hope to currently serving as the Coaching Director for the Share the Hope Hub. In this role, he coaches microchurch leaders as they reproduce disciples and microchurches among formerly incarcerated men and those walking out of addiction. "We are not building Share the Hope for God. He is building his Kingdom his way, which mea...
In this episode, Cory and Brian interview Chad Chambers. Chad has been engaged in disciple-making within the rodeo context for years. The Chambers family plays a significant role in shepherding the microchurch among the youth rodeo circuit. Chad shares his own story of meeting Jesus and how he continues to join Jesus in disciple-making with the people to whom he and his family feel the greatest level of sentness. Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Co...
