First Steps To Becoming a Missional Church

Many conversations about our churches becoming more missional (discipleship-focused) assume there is nothing but objections and arguments against living this way. But what about those churches where people are already convinced and just need direction?

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we lay out the very first steps to becoming a missional church. These are steps that you can ABSOLUTELY take today, and your folks will love it!

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• The difference between leading complacent people vs. the highly motivated.
• Why exposing people’s fears and preferences creates opportunities for change.
• The FIRST thing Caesar would do to start moving your church toward mission.
• 3 More ideas and next steps to keep you moving in the right direction.

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Changing Your Mind About Discipleship

If the Church keeps doing what it has been for decades in connection to disciple-making, we will continue to see a decline in Christianity in our time. There is no better time than today to start changing our minds, changing the church, and changing the world!

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’ll give you 10 key false beliefs and misconceptions about discipleship that we all need to get to work changing in the church today.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• How the Church has gotten so far away from the discipleship Jesus practiced.
• Causes of the present “discipleship crisis” we’re experiencing in the church today.
• How preaching a “small” and often false gospel has led to where we are at.
• 10 Key areas of false belief that we need to start changing…now!

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How Jesus Explained Life and Growth For Us

Are you living a “Kingdom of God lifestyle” today, in a very real sense? Do you feel like growth, abundance, and victory are all a part of your community life and church experience?

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, Caesar and Heath talk about how Jesus explained normal life and growth in the Kingdom of God.

As more and more of us are starting, shifting to, and living in missional communities, we often wonder if we’re “doing it right”. Does this work in every context for everyone? Do all missional communities grow and multiply? How much should this become a lifestyle versus a series of cooler meetings and hangouts?

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• The true definition of a Missional Community defined.
• Caesar’s story of a pretty rocky start to all of this 😳
• How Jesus explained life (all of it) and growth, and what to expect.
• The Pattern and Promise we see throughout the Parables in the NT.

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How to Stop Worrying About What These People Think

People love to give their opinions about how you’re doing things… but sometimes the best way to care for others and yourself is to stop caring about what certain people think.

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we look at the types of people you’ll need to stop listening to in order to truly make disciples and live on mission. This will be refreshing!

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• How our desire for acceptance is hard-wired into us from birth.
• Why what others say or think can often stop us from moving forward.
• The 3 types of people you may be listening to.
• Who specifically you need to STOP listening to!

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Why God Wants Us To Treat Everyone Like Family

Who’s ‘in’… who’s ‘out’… Are we really called to treat everyone like a part of the family? Or is this more of an expression of how we should try to live, primarily with other Christians?

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’ll show you what scripture teaches and try and convince you that God wants you to treat everyone like they are part of your family. 

Treating others like they are family is an extension of the Good News. A place at your table is a place at our Heavenly Dad’s table. Sharing your resources, home, and time is sharing all that God has poured into your life for your pleasure and for his glory. All of this so that the world would know, love, and trust Him.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• A Biblical outline of how God created humanity and sees all of his image-bearers.
• The distinction of what it means to be a “child of God”.
• What happens when we treat everyone like family and let God sort out where they’ll spend their eternity.
• What to do if you were raised with a more “closed” view of family.

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Is Your Language Creating The Culture You Want?

It seems that many Christians are bilingual… We speak in one normal, everyday language most of the time, but when it comes time to talk about religion, spirituality, or God, we break out our special “Christianese” language.

In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’ll talk about being more intentional (and careful) with the words we use when we talk about our faith. And we’ll give you a better way forward!

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• How the language we use as a church creates our culture.
• The Top 10 Christianese words or sayings deciphered.
• What our language communicates to those outside the Church.
• How we can grow in our own “gospel fluency” and begin to speak in clear, meaningful ways about our faith and what life as a Christian is all about.

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