What should our motivation be to live as mobilized missionaries? What is the fuel to wake up every morning believing that you are a kingdom operative? Has the “church growth movement” affected the way we view our responsibility to the mission?

Reevaluating Missional Strategies, Missional Overflow, and Church Planting

11 days ago 54m 27s

According to missional experts, there are many examples of multiplication in every culture around the world except in Western culture, where some suggest there’s only one. What are the reasons for that? Is it possible to have multiplication in

The Flesh Profits Nothing

20 days ago 1h 1m

How will the church remain effective in our current world?The flesh will not get the job done in a post-Christian world.In a world where the antichrist spiritual forces of darkness are working in tandem with an increasing secular world we are f

Kingdom Boldness & the Mission

27 days ago 1h 4m

Sometimes we speak about spiritual conversations as “with” not “at.” We want to lead them to self-discovery but that doesn’t mean that we don’t say anything controversial. How can we have boldness in spiritual conversations and be okay with the

Personal Preparation for Mobilized Missional Living

May 15th, 2024 1h 6m

Preparing yourself to live mobilized and to have natural spiritual conversations may be the most important thing that we do. Missional living within the everyday rhythms of life is what we personally do, it is what we promote, and it’s why we p

Church Planting and “The 2050 Factor”

May 8th, 2024 1h 15m

In today’s episode, we discuss an article written by Daniel Yang, Director of the Send Institute, for Lifeway Research regarding the demographic shift that is happening and projected to happen in the next 25 years and how this impacts church pl

The Gospel of the Kingdom

May 1st, 2024 1h 11m

When Jesus started his earthly ministry, he did so by declaring, “Repent for the kingdom of the skies (heaven) is at hand” and preaching “the gospel of the kingdom.” What does that mean and how does that relate to us and our mission today in re

Discipleship Mindset In the Last Days

Apr 24th, 2024 1h 2m

There is much confusion and a lot of speculation about the end-times and the prophecies surrounding those events. Oftentimes, this produces one of two mindsets: 1) everything that happens is another sign or prophecy, or 2) a cynical attitude th

The Disciple-Makers Prayer

Apr 17th, 2024 1h 7m

Making disciples and creating a disciple-making culture, like every spiritual pursuit, is built on prayer and our relationship with God. Today we talk about two critical elements that must be a part of every disciple-makers life.

Missional Co-Laborers

Apr 10th, 2024 42m 16s

If it’s the job of the Holy Spirit to convict and convert, how do we become co-laborers with Him in the mission of reaching people with the gospel? What is our role in this process and how do we fulfill that? Today we talk about how skilled dis

Passive to Active Discipleship

Mar 27th, 2024 1h 4m

We’ve often heard phrases like, “Just let them see our lives” and “More is caught than taught.” But are these concepts biblical? And what is the difference between passive and active discipleship? Today we tackle what it means to activate disci

Devotion Dissonance: How Discipleship Affects Mental, Physical, Spiritual & Emotional Health

Mar 13th, 2024 1h 12m

You can have cognitive dissonance from the gap on the Belief-Behavior spectrum. (That is truly “the gap” between how a person IS living and what truth teaches how they OUGHT to be living. This is “The Gap”). But you can also have ‘devotion diss

Interview with Terry Shock

Mar 6th, 2024 1h 8m

Today we have as a special guest to the podcast - Rev. Terry Shock. Terry and his wife Melani reside in Indiana near Terre Haute and they currently lead a thriving leadership ministry called Kingdom Quest. Terry and Melani have more than 40 yea

How Tension Makes Disciples Intentional

Feb 29th, 2024 1h 13m

In this episode, we discuss how Spiritual tension impacts the intentional decision-making of a disciple of Christ.

Interview with Pastor Michael Ensey

Feb 21st, 2024 1h 11m

Today we have a special guest on the podcast Pastor Michael Ensey. Pastor Ensey currently leads a thriving church in Heath, Ohio. He and his wife along with their church are influencers in their community. The Ensey’s served as the National You

The Jesus Invitation: An Offer of Margin

Feb 15th, 2024 45m 49s

Life in a world made dysfunctional by sin is hard. It’s hard on us and it’s hard to navigate. Jesus knew this. That’s why he offers “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28) This is not just an

Decentralized Mission?

Feb 8th, 2024 55m 44s

Are microchurches the answer for the mission? Should churches do small group ministries? What does it mean to decentralize the mission and how does that affect every day missionaries & believers? Join us for our discussion as we address these q

Bridging the Credibility Gap

Jan 31st, 2024 1h 12m

The key to really understand Bridging the Credibility Gap is in this cultural idea that we have discussed in past podcasts. Which is that we are moving, and in some regions of the country have moved, from being a Christian culture (where large

Classical Discipleship vs Disciple-Making

Jan 17th, 2024 45m 18s

In today’s episode we explore the differences between the way we have traditionally viewed discipleship primarily as transfer of information and true discipleship which revolves around BE, MAKE, MULTIPLY.

Virtues, Morality, and Kingdom Courage

Jan 11th, 2024 1h 3m

The price you are willing to pay actually reveals how much you value what Jesus values. This becomes the proving ground for our abstract moral qualities to become active faith. Join us today as we discuss Virtues, Morality, and Kingdom Courage

The Underappreciated Value of Foundations and Fences

Jan 3rd, 2024 1h 8m

Join us today as we discuss the importance and value of foundations and fences.

Breaking Habitual Cycles

Dec 20th, 2023 1h 4m

We absolutely know that the power of the Holy Ghost has the ability to radically transform lives and bring deliverance from habits, addictions, feelings. etc. that have held people captive for so long. We also know that the Word of God is a cri

Barriers to Discipleability

Dec 14th, 2023 1h 11m

As you’ve heard us discuss on numerous occasions, we know that discipleability is whether or not a person is willing to let Jesus change what they care about. But there are some barriers to becoming like Jesus that we don’t often discuss that w

Who Do You Think You Are?

Dec 6th, 2023 1h 1m

In today’s episode, we discuss the importance of allowing our identity to come from and be shaped by our relationship with Jesus. Because his identity was settled, he overcame the temptation in the wilderness, did not cater to the expectations

Intensified Transformation Leads to Multiplication

Nov 29th, 2023 1h 9m

God’s design for intensified transformation is engaging in discipleship relationships/discipleship groups (we call them X Groups) and that transformation is the mechanism to multiplication. Today we discuss why these relationships are vital to