You want to live a more missional life—sharing everyday rhythms with others, building community, and making disciples. But what do you do when your pastor or church leadership isn’t on board?

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’ll start by speaking to your heart. Then, we’ll guide you with practical steps to get started and share ways to inspire your leaders and others to embrace this missional lifestyle with you.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• The crucial difference between most traditional churches and missional communities.
• The real threats and fears that you may be experiencing as opposition.
• How Jesus was definitely in the “both/and” camp with a single focus.
• Ways to get started living as an example for others.

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.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• Why the Christmas holidays are a perfect time to reach out on mission.
• How recent social distancing regulations have made certain, favorite, holiday traditions a perfect opportunity for mission in your neighborhood.
• How to pick one other family to be part of your family this holiday season.
• 10 ideas you can mix and match that are fun for your family to do together.

Gratitude is more than delighting in a gift; it is a feeling of happiness directed toward a person for giving you something good. Growing in our ability to consistently be grateful and express gratitude is not only life-changing but is part of becoming a mature disciple of Jesus.

This episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast examines the connection between gratitude, grace, and the Gospel. You’ll discover how expressing gratitude for the giver–not just the good gift–connects our hearts deeper to that person and is a picture of the gospel in and of itself.

Think of the godliest people you know, the people you most respect, other mature Believers you want to emulate and imitate. Almost certainly, the people you are thinking of are grateful people. Cynics, complainers, and critics may be popular on social media and late-night television, but they do not make great heroes of the faith.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• How expressing gratitude actually changes us physically.
• What a lack of gratitude and a tendency to focus on the negative leads to.
• How even spending a few minutes with a truly grateful person changes lives.
• Immediate, hand-held steps you can take to grow in expressing gratitude.

Do apostles still walk among us today? Are there people God sends to proclaim the Good News to the lost and broken, sparking new movements and bringing his Kingdom to life here on Earth?

In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, Caesar talks with his close friend, author, and modern apostle, Hugh Halter. Hugh’s story of starting fresh in a new city will inspire you to see that God is still actively building His Kingdom—and maybe He’s inviting you to be part of it, too!

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• Why Hugh chose to uproot his family from comfort and move to a broken, struggling community.
• The key difference between “planting a church” and “planting the gospel.”
• How a network of small, micro-communities focused on blessing others is transforming a Midwestern city.
• Powerful lessons on trusting God when his call feels overwhelming.

We spend much of our lives with co-workers, often more than with family or friends, making the question of workplace discipleship both natural and nuanced. Opportunities are there, but they require a unique approach.

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we discuss the realities of disciple-making at work. While work relationships can be limited, discipleship remains possible. Gospel fluency becomes essential as we look to infuse these settings with purpose and love, seeing our workplaces with fresh eyes and a heart for others.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• Discipleship is evangelism (and vice versa) and it is often a slow process.
• How to think more holistically about discipleship in the workplace.
• Ways to identify who at work is open to Spiritual things.
• Practical examples of discipleship and gospel fluency at work.