The Authentic Discipleship Podcast: Recent Episodes
The Authentic Discipleship Podcast
Statistics reveal that local churches throughout America are suffering and continuing to shrink. We believe the missing key element is real authentic discipleship among God’s people. Join Pastor Buck Benton as he seeks to encourage, equip, and empower you on how to make disciples in authentic relationships, recapturing the heart of the early church so that you can make a life changing difference where God has planted you, all for the glory of God and the good of the world.
In this episode Pastor Buck sits down with Blake Williamson to discuss the impact that discipleship has had in his life, and how he is working hard ot disciple the next generation.
This week Pastor Buck talks about the four priorities in your life that will help you become and effective disciple maker.
This week Pastor Buck takes us through a look at how disciple making is messy. But that’s ok, what learn from the Word is that Jesus’ ministry was messy as well. As disciple makers, we must run from the mess but lean into it knowing that Jesus came to seek, save and bring transformation.
In this week’s episode, Pastor Buck unpacks why disciple making is so important and who the Holy Spirit is for us in disciple making.
In this week’s episode, Pastor Buck unpacks Jesus’ teachings on the Holy Spirit and how they apply for us in disciple making.
In this weeks episode Pastor Buck sits down with Pastor Ken Adams of Crossroads Church in Sharpsburg, Georgia. In this episode they discuss the Disciple Making Summit and the keys to making disciples the way that Jesus modeled.
The goal of the Christian life is not to live for God, it is allowing Jesus to live his life through us. This week Pastor Buck discusses how the Holy Spirit helps us live a disciple making life.
We’re back! Today Pastor Buck unpacks the idea that Christianity is designed to be modeled as much as it is to be shared. Thank you for joining us our podcast.
In this episode Pastor Buck talks about the calling for men to be leaders and disciple makers in their families and in their life.
Why is it important for us to learn how to listen to God and allow God to speak to us? Today Pastor Buck talks about the ways that God speaks to us, the importance of hearing God speak to you so that you can deliver His message to the world.
Often we ask God what he wants us to do, but we forget to sit and listen to what God wants to teach us. This week Pastor Buck discusses the importance of worship in our discipleship.
In today's episode, Pastor Buck walks us through the parable of the seed and the sower and what it looks like for you to sow good seed in your disciple making journey.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer has had a lasting effect on the Christian faith, specifically in the area of discipleship. God has used his writings and influence to shape lives for decades. Today Pastor Buck sits down with a fellow disciple maker, Kenny Sexton, who went through the Bonhoeffer Project training program. In this episode, we’ll look at lessons learned through the program as well as shared learning about the importance of disciple making.
In this week’s episode Pastor Buck sits down with longtime friend, Billy Shiver. Billy is the lead pastor of Connection Church Vidalia and the director of the Connection Network. In this episode they discuss everything making disciples to church planting and the impact disciple making will have in the church for the future.
In today’s episode, Pastor Buck walks us through why it’s so important to have a family discipleship strategy as well as what are the essentials we need to do family discipleship.
In this week’s episode Pastor Buck wraps up the series on the importance of a discipleship strategy by walking us through the importance of taking next steps in the pipeline and helping people become a multiplying disciple.
In this week's episode, Pastor Buck is going to talk about what it looks like for a new disciple to be plugged into the local church. Our responsibility as disciple makers isn't just to see people saved, but to see people plugged in.
In this week's episode, Pastor Buck is going to walk us through some questions that every new believer is asking and how it's critical to help give them a clear, "what do I do now?" after salvation.
In this week's episode, Pastor Buck begins a new series of episodes that will be focused on the importance of having a disciple making strategy. In this week's episode, Buck will discuss the importance of sharing the Gospel clearly and will walk you through a practical plan for sharing the Gospel.
Description: Have you ever considered the reality that many of us work around 1/3rd of the time during our lives? With that being said, it makes sense that we find purpose in our work and spend that time well. Today Pastor Buck discusses what it looks like to be a disciple of Jesus in the work place.
We all have a tendency to drift in our spiritual lives and invest our lives into things that don't give life. I think we would all agree that we want to live lives with great meaning and purpose. Today, Pastor Buck will be talking about what it looks like to have a clear vision, strong values and solid priorities that align with God’s Word so that we can live lives with great purpose and intentionality for which God created us.
Today Pastor Buck takes us through the 6 qualities of what makes a great small group leader.
Today we’re going by Dr. Trent Stewart. He is the lead pastor of Foothills Church located in Knoxville Tennessee. Today Buck shares a conversation about developing and maintaining vision in their church for disciple making in relational environments.
This week we're joined by our guest Rick Davis, the founder and leader of Engage Global. Rick the founder and leader of a missions mobilization ministry called Engage Global. He is passionate about God's story of reaching every nation with the Gospel. This week he shares with us the need for authentic disciple making as it pertains to global missions.
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To learn more about Engage Global visit: https://www.engageglobal.org/
So many times we hear that people need to go to church and be apart but oftentimes few people consider why we need to be apart of a local church. In this week's episode, Pastor Buck breaks down the reasons why we all need biblical community in order to grow and flourish in our spiritual lives.
In this episode Pastor Buck sits down with Jamie Craft to talk about their experiences with multiplying existing small groups. They’ll discuss small group growth, the challenges of multiplication and the rewards of taking that next step to multiply.
In this week’s episode we’re going to look at the correct goal and run way for the Christian life and for the church. Many times people begin their spiritual journey without a lot of clarity about what to do after they’ve made a decision for Christ. This week we want to break down Ephesians 4:11-16 to see what a maturing church looks like.
Today we’re going to talk about true success in disciple making according to Jesus’ example. So many times we attribute success to quantity instead of quality and this is not the example Jesus gave us. He chose to invest in 12 men during his 3 year ministry and the result of His investment changed the world and continues to change the world today.
In this episode Buck sits down with Katie Mimbs to talk about her experiences with disciple making relationships with women. In this episode we’ll talk about the challenges, the rewards and the fruit of women having authentic spiritual relationships.
In this episode Buck and Carly Benton dive into how the commitment to disciple making has shaped their marriage and family. We believe that the commitment to making disciples brings unity, vision and purpose for households.
In this week’s episode, Buck shares the reality that we can’t be effective at making disciples if we don’t see people the way Jesus sees them. We’ll dive into Jesus’ heart for people and how we can share in that same heart and begin to make a difference in our communities and ultimately in the world the way Jesus did and continues to do today through the Church.
In this week’s episode, Buck shares with us what it means to learn how to “be” with God before we can “do” for God. He shares with us 5 critical internal disciplines for a disciple maker to practice. When we commit to these disciplines he also shares with us 5 external disciplines that will begin to be embodied and practiced by a disciple-making disciple.
In this week’s episode we’ll share a conversation with Stanley Lane, the most recent church planting resident in the Connection Network. This is an incredible episode about the importance of discipleship, taking next steps and what it looks like for a man to lead and disciple his family.
Today's episode will be focused on sharing a practical game plan about how to make a disciple. We've probably heard it most of our church lives we need to evangelize and make disciples but rarely hear a practical how. That's what the Game Plan is all about.
Today we’ll be joined by AJ Wright, the Missions and Student Pastor of Connection Church Dublin discussing the personal impact that disciple making has and how it can make a huge difference for the Kingdom of God.
In many parts of the country, especially in the Bible Belt south, it seems that a relationship with Jesus is essential, but a relationship with the church is optional. In a time where people are leaving the church, we’ll look at why the church is critical in the life of a disciple.
Today we’ll look at what a disciple is and how does one become a disciple. If our goal is to make disciples, we definitely need a correct target to shoot for.
Welcome to the Authentic Discipleship Podcast where we seek to encourage, equip, and empower you on how to make disciples in and through authentic relationships, recapturing the heart of the early church that we read about in the Bible.
Our goal is simply to equip you so that you can make a life changing difference where God has you planted, all for the glory of God and the good of the world.