Conversations: Missional Community Growth

From the outside looking in, missional communities can look very attractive and appear to be a straight line of growth toward multiplication. It is not always so.

In this episode, we finish up our Conversations series. You’ll hear a conversation between a couple of guys who are leading missional communities. One of them is newer to the process and a little disappointed in how things are going with his community.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

  • Missional communities are messy…but a glorious mess!
  • Why things only seem like they’re moving slowly.
  • You’ve engaged in the most meaningful journey of your life.
  • Why you’ll want to seed multiplication into everything you do.

Get started here…

Conversations: Missional Community Growth

(more…)

Conversations: Proactive and Reactive Mission

We will never accidentally disciple someone to maturity in Christ. Discipleship that brings the Gospel to bear in all of life must happen in the rhythms of normal life together. But we often confuse discipleship with being a strong witness of God’s love and character to others.

In this episode, we continue in our Conversations series. You’ll hear a short conversation between two close friends as they take a few minutes to sit and chat about the differences between their proactive and reactive missional opportunities.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

  • The difference between proactive and reactive mission and opportunities.
  • Several examples of a clearly identified proactive mission.
  • What to do with those who fall outside your proactive mission.
  • Why “witnessing for Jesus” is not our mission!

Get started here…

Conversations: Proactive and Reactive Mission

(more…)

Conversations: Small Group or Missional Community?

Through the years we’ve seen Christians group themselves into ‘holy huddles’ that leave little room for new friends to join them in meaningful ways. That’s not God’s plan!

In this episode, we continue in the Conversations series. You’ll hear two different conversations: The first is a couple of friends who’ve been in a small group together for quite a while… and the second one is between some couples in a true missional community. They are very different conversations. Pay attention to who and what is the focus of their groups and life together.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

  • Why our traditional ‘small groups’ are not what God intended.
  • 6 important distinctions between small groups and missional communities.
  • God’s amazing hope and desire for his family.
  • A clear illustration of how people in a missional community see their lives on mission.

Get started here…

Conversations: Small Group or Missional Community?

(more…)

Conversations: Gospel Communities On Mission

Most people cannot multiply or replicate what they experience on Sundays at a church service. If what we preach, and teach others cannot be reproduced immediately, over and over, then it will never lead to maturity, growth and multiplication.

In this episode, we continue in the Conversations series. You’ll hear a short but natural conversation between a couple of buddies who meet up at a cafe. They end up talking about a pretty common misperception connected to discipleship that a lot of us were taught in church, and maybe, still hold onto today.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

  • Why it’s critical we have all 3 “legs of the stool” in our churches.
  • How your discipleship process may be missing a key ingredient.
  • Why one-to-one discipleship does not lead to maturity.
  • A conversation about the importance of living in gospel communities on mission.

Get started here…

Conversations: Gospel Communities On Mission

(more…)

Conversations: Discipleship In All Of Life

The gospel is not just the beginning of our Christian life and how we obtain a ticket to heaven. Our discipleship has implications for all of life today. And think about this… we are actually always in discipleship mode.

In this episode, Caesar continues in the Conversations series. Hear a conversation between a married couple talking about a recent trip to the grocery store. Learn how discipleship should, does, and will affect all of life, not just spiritual things and where we’ll spend our afterlife.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

  • How and why God has us continually in “discipleship mode”.
  • The ways God uses our discipling of others for our own growth.
  • The importance of helping people understand discipleship in all of life.
  • How a super gospel-fluent conversation in everyday life sounds.

Get started here…

Conversations: Discipleship In All Of Life

(more…)

Conversations: How We Make Disciples

Discipleship is not about knowledge acquisition or teaching folks lots of stuff about the Bible. It’s not enough to teach facts or gain knowledge… Disciples must be formed in ways that change their motivation and give them active gospel experiences.

In this episode, Caesar continues in the series Conversations. We’re halfway through 10 essential topics you’ll need to discuss with those you want to lead toward a lifestyle of discipleship and mission. Hear a conversation between a couple of friends that in a powerful way teaches us to reorient our thinking on how we need to make disciples of Jesus.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

  • A powerful parable that reframes disciple-making.
  • How our current methods of discipleship fall way short.
  • The ways people need to experience new things in order to change.
  • A reproducible method for making your discipleship more holistic.

Get started here…

Conversations: How We Make Disciples

(more…)

Be_The_Church_cover.jpg

Get This FREE eBook: Be The Church

Discipleship and Mission Made Simple

Get Instant Access