Fighting Our Preoccupation With Self

How you feel, pretty much in every moment, is connected to how you believe things are going relative to your sense of self. It is out of our identity, and perception of self, that our motives and actions flow. The Gospel answers our fallen self-obsession with a great work of grace in Christ.

In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’ll examine what drives our pride and continual self-focus, and how the Gospel leads us to freedom and relational peace.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• How your understanding of God’s stance against pride may be wrong.
• Why we spend so much time focused on self and what others think.
• Why thinking less of yourself is not the answer to pride.
• How the Gospel leads us to focus more on Jesus and less on ourselves.

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Why You Need More Storytelling In Your Discipleship

Our lives are wrapped up in stories; they are the language of our world. Who we believe ourselves to be is shaped by the dominant story in our lives, and what we believe about God and what he is like will ultimately determine what we believe about ourselves and how life works.

In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, I share why learning, embracing, and teaching the Story of God found throughout the Bible is a key component in discipleship. You’ll learn how we teach the Story in community and the transformation that it brings.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• How stories powerfully shape our lives and worldview.
• Why the Bible stories you may have been taught as a kid were wrong.
• Ways we’ve used narrative and dialogical story-telling in our discipleship.
• Where to get free Story of God resources and training.

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Blessed to Be a Blessing: Your Family on Mission

Blessed to be a blessing sounds at once awesome… and a little daunting. Where do we start blessing people when there are SO MANY needs around us? That should make it easier, but honestly, it can kind of shut you down, not knowing WHO to bless or HOW.

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we talk about how to live fully enjoying the blessings in your life, but also how to live “blessed to be a blessing” to others as a family on mission.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• How many things you’ve truly been blessed with in this life.
• If you’re living as a Conduit or a Barrel.
• 3 powerful, yet simple ways to start blessing others–regularly.
• Ways to include your entire family in blessing as part of their discipleship.

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First Steps To Becoming a Missional Church

Many conversations about our churches becoming more missional (discipleship-focused) assume there is nothing but objections and arguments against living this way. But what about those churches where people are already convinced and just need direction?

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we lay out the very first steps to becoming a missional church. These are steps that you can ABSOLUTELY take today, and your folks will love it!

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• The difference between leading complacent people vs. the highly motivated.
• Why exposing people’s fears and preferences creates opportunities for change.
• The FIRST thing Caesar would do to start moving your church toward mission.
• 3 More ideas and next steps to keep you moving in the right direction.

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Changing Your Mind About Discipleship

If the Church keeps doing what it has been for decades in connection to disciple-making, we will continue to see a decline in Christianity in our time. There is no better time than today to start changing our minds, changing the church, and changing the world!

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’ll give you 10 key false beliefs and misconceptions about discipleship that we all need to get to work changing in the church today.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• How the Church has gotten so far away from the discipleship Jesus practiced.
• Causes of the present “discipleship crisis” we’re experiencing in the church today.
• How preaching a “small” and often false gospel has led to where we are at.
• 10 Key areas of false belief that we need to start changing…now!

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How Jesus Explained Life and Growth For Us

Are you living a “Kingdom of God lifestyle” today, in a very real sense? Do you feel like growth, abundance, and victory are all a part of your community life and church experience?

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, Caesar and Heath talk about how Jesus explained normal life and growth in the Kingdom of God.

As more and more of us are starting, shifting to, and living in missional communities, we often wonder if we’re “doing it right”. Does this work in every context for everyone? Do all missional communities grow and multiply? How much should this become a lifestyle versus a series of cooler meetings and hangouts?

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• The true definition of a Missional Community defined.
• Caesar’s story of a pretty rocky start to all of this 😳
• How Jesus explained life (all of it) and growth, and what to expect.
• The Pattern and Promise we see throughout the Parables in the NT.

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