Discipleship Download: Recent Episodes
419 Movement
Following Jesus. Being changed by Jesus. On mission with Jesus. The 419 Movement is focused on making disciples who fit that description, and we want to share our journey as we learn and grow together as disciple makers. Join us!
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Today, David Anderson is joined by Pete Loescher, a mentor of his and current president of Radical Mentoring. They discuss the importance of mentoring and helping followers of Jesus to study their stories. As we understand our stories better, we are more likely to accept the redemptive path that Jesus wants us on and engage our life in a way that glorifies Him.
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This week, our Senior Pastor Clay Smith and David Anderson discuss what spiritual conversations look like in real life, everything from spiritual analysis tools to curiosity and empathy. Additionally, they talk overarching trends and common obstacles that disciple makers will encounter.
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In this episode, David Anderson interviews Steve McGinnis & Paul Kennon, local chapter leaders of an organization called Ratio Christi. Ratio Christi is an apologetics & evangelism organization that seeks to equip students in both defending their faith and sharing it with others. The three discuss their observations and experiences with evangelizing on college campuses.
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Loving our neighbors as ourselves includes all people, but how do we love and witness to those who are literally our next door neighbors? Lay leaders Katy Younker & Kelley Smith discuss this with David Anderson as they share stories from their own suburban groups.
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Gen Z is grown up, and growing up. How do we deliver the gospel to the new kids on the block? How do we help them catch the vision of disciple making? David Anderson is joined by our Young Adults Minister Brady Whitehead and Disciple Making Resident TJ Hyer to discuss their travels to India, Houston, and their experiences in making disciples.
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In this episode, we interview lay leaders Randy & Bev Wood, two incredible, retired disciple makers who have been obedient in dynamic ways. We are also joined by Mitch Verdell, our Adults 60+ Pastor. Listen to encouraging stories of how God uses retired, faithful individuals to change lives. Even when our careers are in the past, God can use us in mighty ways.
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Our guests, Executive Pastor of Global Sending, Bryan Hanson, and Pastor of Global Sending, Brian Fox, share incredible stories of how God's supernatural activity unfolds beyond our awareness. We also discuss the power of prayer, and how prayer itself is the vehicle for much supernatural activity.
Special treat at the end to celebrate a new season!
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Our Executive Pastor of Disciplemaking, Adrian Coetzer, and Pastor of Family Discipleship, Lee Taylor, talk about the importance of disciplemaking in teams. We also discuss the necessity of Christians living in community with one another.
Our Senior Pastor, Clay Smith, and Executive Pastor of Disciplemaking, Adrian Coetzer, talk about the things we are doing as a church to create a disciplemaking culture. We also discuss how our disciplemakers can contribute to the culture of our church as we grow.
Steve Allen has been working as a disciplemaker and church planter for the North American Mission Board in New York City for over 20 years. In a city with incredible diversity and a busy pace of life, we discuss the importance of engaging others with curiosity and building bridges of trust into genuine relationships .
Andrew and Christy are sent ones serving in a difficult context, but they are using their gifts and passions to create meaningful relationships where the Gospel can be shared. Where does God want you to go? Our gifts, passions, and story (GPS) can help us understand where to go (concept from Find Your Place by Wegner & Phipps).
Once we are trained in disciplemaking methods, how do we contextualize that training to our real lives? Larry McCrary and Bradley Bell discuss concepts from their book, Tradecraft, that can help disciplemakers live like a sent one where they live, work, learn, and play.
Disciplemaking is a long term endeavor so we have to be intentional about how we refill our own cup as we pour out that cup into the lives of others. Abiding may be a foreign word or even a missing component in your life, but Bradley Bell from Upstream Collective discusses how vital abiding in Christ is for disciplemaking.
Lipok tells his story - from rebel to church planter! God is moving in big ways in India, and Lipok describes what he has learned as a pioneering disciplemaker as the Holy Spirit moves in mighty ways in a dark place.
In our season finale, David discusses fears with Student Pastor Logan Grantham, and how we can “flip the switch” for making disciples. They share their own fears and how their perspectives have changed over time.
In this quick 101 episode, we inspect the elements that need to be present consistently in order for your group to have a multiplying culture and for disciple makers to launch themselves successfully.
David interviews one of our partners living among an unreached people group. What does it look like to find a person of peace in that context? What does it look like to find a person of peace in our context? God is preparing persons of peace, and finding them is a vital step for a disciple maker.
How do we live out our sent identity and have warm connections with others? David interviews Ashley and Heather Holleman, who discuss their books "Sent" and "The Six Conversations." Sent has been a compelling resource for our disciple makers and was awarded Outreach Magazine's "Evangelism Resource of the Year" in 2021.
Clay Smith and David Anderson discuss what it looks like to get outside the walls of the church to fulfill the Great Commission, a massive change in how we talk about church and disciple making.
We continue to look at how to facilitate a meeting, specifically with the Look Forward time at end of each meeting. Brian Fox joins David Anderson to discuss how to “read the room” and finish every meeting strong. Since God is doing a specific work in the hearts of each person in our groups, we want to be leaders who help them follow Jesus one step of obedience at a time.
The 419 meeting uses a method called Discover Bible Study. It’s a simple process that you can repeat over and over, and its reliance on God’s Word makes it a powerful tool for disciple makers - in this episode, we discuss why it’s so effective and what are some practical steps to using it.
Knowing someone's story is a huge step in forming a relationship and discipling someone. Just like God gave the story of the Bible to invite us into a relationship with Him, we use storytelling to invite others into a relationship with ourselves and especially a relationship with Jesus. In this 101 episode, David Anderson shares practical ways to be storytellers as a foundation for discipleship and evangelism.
To be effective disciple makers, we have to get behind the mask and establish real relationships characterized by safety, support, & purpose. Do the relational challenges of today's culture & the church affect discipleship? Adrian Coetzer, Erin Smith, and David Anderson dive into these relational issues and how to lead your group relationally. Robby Angle, CEO of Trueface, also provides additional guidance for building high-trust, relational groups.
The origin story of the 419 Movement! David Anderson, Lee Taylor, and Brian Fox pull back the curtain to share the early moments of this discipleship journey. Also joining us for a guest interview is pastor Clay Smith!