Missional Christmas: 10 Ideas For Family and Friends

Many of us were raised to believe that the Christmas holidays are a time to unplug from outside relationships and our “normal” community rhythms. Even many Christians tend to isolate away from their small groups, missional communities, and neighbors instead of pressing deeper into relationships at this time of year.

In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’ll give you 10 fun and easy missional ideas that you can do with family and friends to help you stay on mission this holiday season.

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How Your Small Groups Need To Change

Outside the Western world, the Church is experiencing its greatest growth in history by gathering and multiplying small groups of people, numbering 10 or less. Is this the way forward for us too?

In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, Caesar talks with author and modern-day apostle, Hugh Halter, about the need to re-envision why and how our church small groups gather together on mission. Now is the time to change!

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Why It’s Hard to Motivate People to Live on Mission

Have you found it hard–really hard–to move people toward embracing change lately? Are you finding it frustrating to motivate folks to reorient their lives around discipleship, serving others, and missional living… versus a consumeristic experience of the church?

In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’ll tell you why the way you’ve learned to motivate people produces polarizing results. And we’ll give you ways to initiate lasting change through more gospel-centered motivations.

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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!

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Being Good Neighbors This Summer on Mission

Summer is a great time, with plenty of good reasons, to get out and about and mix it up with your neighbors more often, especially now that we’re coming out of this pandemic lockdown and extreme social distancing.

In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, I talk about the idea of “neighboring well” in the summer months. I’ll show you how to make the next few months awesome for the sake of discipleship and mission, and really set yourself up for a great autumn season in your community.

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Are You Leading With a Missional Mindset?

The word “missional” is not a dirty word, out of fashion, or dead. It still means today: living radically focused on the mission of discipleship; making more disciples of Jesus in everyday life. That’s our only mission as the church, and it will always be that way.

This week on the Lifeschool Podcast, we look at distractions and loss of focus, and regardless of what you call it, we talk about having a “missional mindset” and the importance of that discipleship focus, especially if you’re a pastor or leading a community group, etc.

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