Embracing How and Why God Saves Us – Pt.1

Most of our evangelistic messages focus on “How” someone can be saved. But the Gospel also tells us “Why” we’ve been saved. Understanding both is critical in making disciples of Jesus who make more disciples.

In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, I explain the “two lenses” of the Gospel: Power and Purpose. A failure to embrace and consistently proclaim both is what has led to such a discipleship deficit in the Church. Let’s change that.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• Why the Gospel is not just about believing a set of historical facts that gets us into heaven.
• How the lack of understanding both lenses of the Gospel has led to our decline in discipleship.
• A full, practical way to explain both the Power and the Purpose of the Gospel.
• The Plan Jesus gave the Church to accomplish the Purpose of the Gospel. (Powerful!)

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Using The Story of God in Community

What we believe about God and what he is like will ultimately determine what we believe about ourselves and how life works. This is why it is so important that we know, understand, and believe God’s big story. How well do you know the Story of God?

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, Caesar visits with a community and their pastor and discusses the ways they have been teaching the Story of God in their church, and with their neighbors. You’ll hear about the transformation that is taking place as the fuller picture of God’s overarching Story is unfolding in their lives.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• Different ways The Story can be used in making disciples.
• Why even “mature” Christians need to learn The Story.
• The transformation that takes place when we learn the full Story of God.
• The difference between knowing a lot about the Bible and knowing God’s Story.

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The Gospel on the Move in a Rural Context

Jesus’ call and command to “go and make disciples” means everywhere and is for everyone. If you are living under the false belief that, “This missional lifestyle just won’t work in our context,” this episode is for you! (Regardless of where you live.)

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we look at discipleship and mission in a rural context. Our guest, Drew Speroni, along with his wife Sabrina and their kids, have engaged in some pretty unique rhythms as a family to see people come to know Jesus and create a missional community in their setting.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• Why a rural context presents unique challenges for discipleship.
• Drew’s miraculous healing that led to clarity for his mission.
• The daily and weekly rhythms that were engaged to build a community.
• How this missional community is making disciples in a rural setting today.

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What to Do with Kids in Your Missional Community

Kids are great! But sometimes when all together, things can feel hectic and distracted. One of the most common questions we hear connected to this is, “What do you do with kids in your missional community? How do you handle them, what types of activities do you do for them, etc.?”

In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’ll help you solve this and give you a bunch of ideas on how to include your kids on mission.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• How life in a missional community with kids actually mirrors the rest of your life.
• Why kids are vital to the mission and can be a “secret weapon” for you.
• Why a true missional community and lifestyle can never be jammed into a single evening each week.
• 7 easy and practical ways to include your kids in your missional community

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How to Revive Your Missional Community

Feeling like your church small group or missional community is a bit of a dud, lately? They can oftentimes get stuck as just a weekly meeting and never really become the intentional, life-on-life, daily experience they are meant to be. (And can be.)

In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we talk about how to revive your group and breathe new life into things. You really can experience your faith in daily community with others the way Jesus did!

NOTE: In our last episode, Caesar started telling the story of how he and his wife Tina, and some of their friends, first tried out this “missional community” stuff. And how it failed pretty miserably. If you missed that episode, pause this one and go back and listen to this episode now first, and then come back and pick up the story here…

[SPOILER ALERT] Things got better!

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• How to establish predictable patterns in the life of your community
• How Jesus balanced his time and priorities as he lived with his disciples
• Ways to have a deeper connection with God and the gospel in your group
• How to start living much more like a family rather than just a mid-week meeting

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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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