How to Create a Lifestyle of Discipleship

Is discipleship about gaining knowledge, or is it about a transformed life? Is it a series of classes or, like with Jesus and his pals, was it an all-of-life kind of a deal?

In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’re talking about true discipleship and looking at what a lifestyle of discipleship looks like when it is all woven into the normal rhythms of your everyday life in community.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

  • A working definition of discipleship that will reshape your thinking on this immediately
  • How Jesus lived life with his disciples and what he then hoped/commanded them to do
  • Why a series of 8-10 classes done in a classroom will never produce mature disciples
  • Why an integrated lifestyle “apprenticeship” was Jesus’ model for us

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How to Create a Lifestyle of Discipleship

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Start a Movement or Join a Movement

Often with disciple-making, we either have no framework for making disciples of Jesus, or we put together such an elaborate plan that is destined to fizzle out.

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, Caesar talks with a movement leader in Belgium who has helped create a network of communities that are making disciples in beautiful and reproducible ways. This is so encouraging!

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

  • How co-vocational saints are leading a large disciple-making movement.
  • Why keeping our discipleship process simple makes it reproducible.
  • The importance of getting started…or joining others… today!
  • How our past church traditions may be causing us to overthink things.

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Start a Movement or Join a Movement

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The Patience Needed For Discipleship

Discipleship is definitely more of a slow cooking process and not something done at microwave speeds. Maybe that’s why the church in recent history has had such a hard time with making disciples: We want to see instant conversions, instant attendance, and instant new programs…

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, Caesar is joined by disciple-maker and church planter Gino Curcuruto. Listen in as they explore the importance of patience in discipleship. They reflect on the early church leaders’ understanding of investing significant time in walking alongside individuals, guiding them toward living in the ways of Jesus.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

  • How patience plays a vital role in the process of discipling someone.
  • Why baptism is a model for our ongoing immersion into Gospel Identity.
  • The need for discipleship to happen in different environments of life.
  • How “micro churches” that only mirror a Sunday church service are missing the mark.

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The Patience Needed For Discipleship

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Moving From Attracting To Deploying

Part of the major lack of discipleship we see in the Church today comes back to the reality that many, or most, are still living and leading their people in light of the Old Covenant! New Covenant churches are focused on making disciples who increasingly fill the world with disciples of Jesus.

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we talk about what it looks like to move from attracting people to our buildings toward deploying people on mission, and truly embracing our New Covenant identity.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

  • Stark differences between the Old and New Covenants found in scripture.
  • How embracing the reality of the New Covenant in Christ SENDS us out on mission.
  • Ways that the New Covenant empowers the “priesthood of all believers” and will radically transform the Church.
  • Some signs that you or your church may still be living and laboring under the Old Covenant.

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Moving From Attracting To Deploying

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How To Develop New Missional Leaders Pt.2

If you are not intentionally developing new leaders within your church or missional community–all the time–you will find yourself with a “leadership vacuum”. Don’t wait until you are lacking leaders who will serve and help with growth. You need to develop new leaders as a part of your ongoing disciple-making process.

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, Caesar is joined by one of his personal long-time mentors, John Witte. You’ll be encouraged as they share hard-earned lessons in successfully developing new leaders.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

  • The importance of waiting until someone asks you to develop them. (Sometimes.)
  • How Invitation & Challenge fits into developing new leaders.
  • Why your model for doing church may be costing you new leaders.
  • 4 critical things required for building providential relationships.

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How To Develop New Missional Leaders Pt.2

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How To Develop New Missional Leaders

The church has historically required people to be at a very high level of education and proven experience before they are released to lead others… or even be a central part of disciple-making. We’ll never see a gospel movement of multiplication this way!

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’ll give you a simple process for developing missional leaders. You can use this in everything you do, with all the disciples in your life, and you’ll be on a path of natural and reproducible leadership development.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

  • Why there always seems to be a “leadership crisis” in so many churches.
  • How leadership development precedes the multiplication of disciples, communities, and churches.
  • How any knowledge, skill, or spiritual practice can be passed on through this process.
  • Why making everything simple and reproducible is key to multiplying leaders.

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How To Develop New Missional Leaders

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