The Patience Needed For Discipleship

Discipleship is definitely more of a slow cooking process and not something done at microwave speeds. Maybe that’s why the church in recent history has had such a hard time with making disciples: We want to see instant conversions, instant attendance, and instant new programs…

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, Caesar is joined by disciple-maker and church planter Gino Curcuruto. Listen in as they explore the importance of patience in discipleship. They reflect on the early church leaders’ understanding of investing significant time in walking alongside individuals, guiding them toward living in the ways of Jesus.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

  • How patience plays a vital role in the process of discipling someone.
  • Why baptism is a model for our ongoing immersion into Gospel Identity.
  • The need for discipleship to happen in different environments of life.
  • How “micro churches” that only mirror a Sunday church service are missing the mark.

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The Patience Needed For Discipleship

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Moving From Attracting To Deploying

Part of the major lack of discipleship we see in the Church today comes back to the reality that many, or most, are still living and leading their people in light of the Old Covenant! New Covenant churches are focused on making disciples who increasingly fill the world with disciples of Jesus.

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we talk about what it looks like to move from attracting people to our buildings toward deploying people on mission, and truly embracing our New Covenant identity.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

  • Stark differences between the Old and New Covenants found in scripture.
  • How embracing the reality of the New Covenant in Christ SENDS us out on mission.
  • Ways that the New Covenant empowers the “priesthood of all believers” and will radically transform the Church.
  • Some signs that you or your church may still be living and laboring under the Old Covenant.

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Moving From Attracting To Deploying

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How To Develop New Missional Leaders Pt.2

If you are not intentionally developing new leaders within your church or missional community–all the time–you will find yourself with a “leadership vacuum”. Don’t wait until you are lacking leaders who will serve and help with growth. You need to develop new leaders as a part of your ongoing disciple-making process.

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, Caesar is joined by one of his personal long-time mentors, John Witte. You’ll be encouraged as they share hard-earned lessons in successfully developing new leaders.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

  • The importance of waiting until someone asks you to develop them. (Sometimes.)
  • How Invitation & Challenge fits into developing new leaders.
  • Why your model for doing church may be costing you new leaders.
  • 4 critical things required for building providential relationships.

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How To Develop New Missional Leaders Pt.2

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How To Develop New Missional Leaders

The church has historically required people to be at a very high level of education and proven experience before they are released to lead others… or even be a central part of disciple-making. We’ll never see a gospel movement of multiplication this way!

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’ll give you a simple process for developing missional leaders. You can use this in everything you do, with all the disciples in your life, and you’ll be on a path of natural and reproducible leadership development.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

  • Why there always seems to be a “leadership crisis” in so many churches.
  • How leadership development precedes the multiplication of disciples, communities, and churches.
  • How any knowledge, skill, or spiritual practice can be passed on through this process.
  • Why making everything simple and reproducible is key to multiplying leaders.

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How To Develop New Missional Leaders

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Racism, Identity and Our Gospel Hope

The subject of racial equality and related social injustice is one of the most pressing and important topics in our culture today. Is this a problem that’s “out there” and since it’s not affecting the majority of us today, we ignore it and hope it goes away? Is there hope for change? I believe there is, but it may not be a popular or politically correct option to take.

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, I talk about racism, our identity, and how the Gospel is our only true hope. Not churchy stuff, not more Bible studies where we don’t live out what we learn in those studies. The Gospel.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

  • Some of Caesar’s own experiences with racism in his life.
  • If non-people of color have a right to speak publicly on this issue.
  • How identity as an Image-bearer, and seeing others the same, is crucial.
  • Why being WITH and FOR those who have been treated as “less” by the culture is our best posture and plan forward.

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Family Life on a Kingdom Mission

Missional communities should be an extension of our own family life patterns and missional rhythms. Like our master, Jesus, we must lead with our lives–not just our words. Our own family on mission is at the center of everything we do and what we build.

In this episode, you’ll hear from a beautiful couple as we talk about how they’ve successfully integrated all of family life, work, and ministry into a natural lifestyle of disciple-making in community. I could not think of anyone better to illustrate the fun, the woes, the joy and the triumphs of living as a family on mission.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

  • How John and Alison started living this way as a family.
  • How their unique gifts both conflict and lead them forward on mission.
  • Some of the challenges that come up for them and their kids.
  • How normal this lifestyle now feels and the joy they experience.

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Family Life on a Kingdom Mission

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