Halloween: Your Neighborhood Mission

Halloween has some “dark history”, and many of us were taught that this was a holiday you were supposed to avoid if you’re a Christian. But the truth behind this annual event may surprise you. There’s no reason to miss out on this HUGE chance to bring redemption to your neighborhood.

In this episode, Caesar and Heath Hollensbe discuss the amazing opportunity that our current cultural experience of Halloween provides as we live on mission and make disciples.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• The history of Halloween and how the Church may have actually invented it.
• How the Gospel redeems culture instead of avoiding it.
• Why Christians can and should participate with radical generosity.
• 7 ideas on ways to be more intentional and missional this year.

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How to Speak Gospel to the Cancel Culture

The “cancel culture” can hit anyone at any time–even you–if you’ve ever said or done something that a very vocal group of people disagree with. Unfortunately, the Church is not immune to this type of canceling of our own.

In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’ll take a look at how God deals with messed-up people and disagreements. Did he cancel the reputation and livelihood of some of history’s most famous sinners? We’ll hear some Good News for all of this, and I’ll give you 5 Rules for combating the cancel culture in your life today.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• What the ‘cancel culture’ is, and how to know if you’ve been “canceled”.
• Ways you may have canceled people in your life and not known it.
• How the Good News of the Gospel speaks to and cancels the ‘cancel culture’.
• 5 Rules for combating the cancel culture in your life today.

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Why Church Elders Should Be Lead Disciple-makers

Many pastors are working hard to lead their families and flocks to engage discipleship in all of life, but their biggest roadblocks to exponential growth is their own church elders! Oftentimes, these “elders” do not make disciples and have never led another person to faith in Jesus. How could this be so common?!

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we ask the question: Are your elders discipleship friends or foes? You’ll discover the true history of how church elders emerged, their roles, and why your church elders should be lead disciple-makers in your church.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• Did elders exist in culture before the emergence of the Church?
• How elders were appointed and their role in the early church.
• Why your elders should be THE model for making disciples in the church!
• What to do if your elders are “blocking” discipleship in community.

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Is Your Church Successful? New Benchmarks

Jesus was immeasurably the most successful person in human history. In every way. Yet, if we were to measure his lifetime effectiveness using today’s Church benchmarks of success, Jesus would probably find it hard to get hired on at most churches. What are you measuring?

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we look at why some of the traditional ways we’ve been measuring church success are not producing kingdom growth and mature disciples. Here are the new benchmarks of a successful church.

Your church or community really can shift toward missional engagement. By changing what you measure, you’ll begin to change your focus to accomplishing the Church’s true mission and its ultimate purpose.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• Why what your church is measuring may actually be toxic.
• How our current standards of success are very different than Jesus’.
• What happens when we begin to measure and fund different goals.
• 10 new benchmarks of a successful, missional church.

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10 Secrets to Growing Deeper Friendships

Building strong relationships of trust is a key factor in discipleship. But many of us are not good at building friendships, or we seem too busy in our lives to make the investment of time that it takes.

In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, join me as I mine the wisdom of author Twyla Franz and uncover practical ways to start growing deeper friendships today.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• How friendships and trust are the pathways for disciple-making.
• Why openness and vulnerability don’t have to be scary.
• How “divine interruptions” are opportunities to connect and share life.
• 10 secrets to growing deeper friendships that transform relationships.

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How to Start Shifting Your Church Outward

The way we gather as the Church has changed. Our once rock-solid pattern of meeting all together on Sundays has been fractured, and statistics show that as much as 30% of people are not returning to our weekend gatherings.

In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, Caesar talks about the need for the Church to start creating new, outward-focused “predictable patterns” that everyone can start in their own families right at home.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• How the change in our gathering patterns may be a blessing in disguise.
• Why new predictable patterns can and must start in our homes.
• How you could double the size of your church this week. Seriously!
• 5 steps that you can initiate in your family and church-wide right now.

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