How to Stop Worrying About What These People Think

People love to give their opinions about how you’re doing things… but sometimes the best way to care for others and yourself is to stop caring about what certain people think.

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we look at the types of people you’ll need to stop listening to in order to truly make disciples and live on mission. This will be refreshing!

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• How our desire for acceptance is hard-wired into us from birth.
• Why what others say or think can often stop us from moving forward.
• The 3 types of people you may be listening to.
• Who specifically you need to STOP listening to!

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Why God Wants Us To Treat Everyone Like Family

Who’s ‘in’… who’s ‘out’… Are we really called to treat everyone like a part of the family? Or is this more of an expression of how we should try to live, primarily with other Christians?

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’ll show you what scripture teaches and try and convince you that God wants you to treat everyone like they are part of your family. 

Treating others like they are family is an extension of the Good News. A place at your table is a place at our Heavenly Dad’s table. Sharing your resources, home, and time is sharing all that God has poured into your life for your pleasure and for his glory. All of this so that the world would know, love, and trust Him.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• A Biblical outline of how God created humanity and sees all of his image-bearers.
• The distinction of what it means to be a “child of God”.
• What happens when we treat everyone like family and let God sort out where they’ll spend their eternity.
• What to do if you were raised with a more “closed” view of family.

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Is Your Language Creating The Culture You Want?

It seems that many Christians are bilingual… We speak in one normal, everyday language most of the time, but when it comes time to talk about religion, spirituality, or God, we break out our special “Christianese” language.

In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’ll talk about being more intentional (and careful) with the words we use when we talk about our faith. And we’ll give you a better way forward!

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• How the language we use as a church creates our culture.
• The Top 10 Christianese words or sayings deciphered.
• What our language communicates to those outside the Church.
• How we can grow in our own “gospel fluency” and begin to speak in clear, meaningful ways about our faith and what life as a Christian is all about.

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Life in Community on Mission: The Glorious Mess

There is no such thing as a typical week in the rhythms of a missional community. Healthy communities follow pretty surprisingly simple patterns. And the schedules of the families are not crazy packed and insanely busy.

In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, I’ll share a running narrative from the daily journals of a married father in a missional community. You’ll get to see all of the “organized” and “organic” interactions that come up in their calendar as a family on mission for one week. Oh, it’s messy… but it’s a glorious mess!

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• • How a married couple with three kids lives on mission together.
  • The gospel-intentionality that is baked into their normal life.
  • How living this way in community adds very little to their normal schedules.
  • A great picture of discipleship in action in everyday life.

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Family Discipleship and Mission Made Simple (Part 2)

I grew up going to church Sunday after Sunday. Discipleship, if and when it happened, was a series of classes or a 9-week curriculum that we went through. The problem with that was… it didn’t really work.

In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’ll share Part 2 of seven simple yet important steps to living a lifestyle of discipleship where the gospel speaks good news into and shapes every area of life. Discipleship was always meant to happen with others in community.

What’s keeping you and your people from moving beyond a weekend-to-weekend spirituality into a lifestyle of discipleship and mission with family, friends, and other amazing folks God has brought into your life? Let’s get started.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• How to identify who is “leaning in” to relationship and a possible faith journey with you.
• How to begin to have simple, daily conversations with the Holy Spirit connected to your discipleship and leading others to faith.
• Why predictable patterns in your life are key to building relationships on mission.
• How to get help to start on all of this right away.

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Family Discipleship and Mission Made Simple (Part 1)

Our Christian faith was always meant to be vibrant and lived like a family with others—not a once-a-week experience. Missional communities are a proven (biblical) way to engage people in normal rhythms of family discipleship and mission… believers and not-yet-believers alike.

In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’ll share Part 1 of seven simple steps that will help you lead your folks to a “faith in practice” where family life becomes mission and begins to move outward to include others.

These seven, proven steps may seem simple or even a little obvious, but they really work and are just the beginning… There is no limit to how far this will take you if you apply this to your life.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• What keeps a lot of churches and small groups stuck in a “me-focused” mode.
• The difference between a weekly small group and a true “family on mission”.
• Why understanding and embracing a bigger gospel is at the center of a missional life.
• The first three of seven proven steps to make family discipleship and mission simple.
• How to get help to get started on all of this right away.

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