The Patient Ferment of the Early Church is one of the top 3 books I've read in the last 10 years.

In this episode, I'm going to give you my review of it, why it was so amazing and challenging for me, and the top 10 things I learned from it.

This is a deep dive into how the early church operated, what we can learn from it, and why patience was the secret weapon to everything, including evangelism.

In this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:09 Evangelism

3:31 Secret Services

6:26 God's Method

8:05 Full Participation

10:56 The Messianic Era of Peace

12:14 Right Relationship

13:45 Sponsors

16:03 Catechesis To Change Habits

17:28 Bishops

20:17 Constantine and Augustine

24:32 My Question To You

RESOURCES MENTIONED:

The Patient Ferment of the Early Church by Alan Kreider: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0801048494/

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What kind of church did Jesus envision?

This is part 2 of my attempt to answer that, breaking down the church into it's various "cornerstones", from the ground up, in this order:

If we go from first principles, I think you'll see that we've basically been doing church all wrong.

Worship services are great and important, but they are NOT the fullness of what Christ intended to create.

I'll also break down the missing element that will allow us to create an Acts-style church again in our cities, and it probably won't be what you think.

In this episode, we talk about:

0:00 How was the Church described in Acts?

0:25 What is the Church?

3:46 3 Elements of the Acts Church

7:33 Household Misunderstandings

14:32 The Church as a Body

19:41 Mutual Submission and Hierarchy

23:02 A Clearer Sense of The Church (NOT Just Worship Services)

Resources:

Part 1: What Kind of Church Did Jesus Envision?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35W8OrDzMZw

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Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

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Small Groups are NOT the same as disciple-making.

Brian was deep into Small Groups, doing it the way everyone's been doing it for ages, when the Lord suddenly convicted him that he wasn't actually fulfilling the Great Commission with the work he was doing.

He chose the path of humility and allowed the Lord to strip him of all that he thought he knew, and to build him back up.

And the results have been incredible.

Brian's disciple-making went to the 4th and 5th generation and beyond, and he now helps churches make disciples who make disciples...again, getting to that magical 4th generation where growth becomes natural and expected.

This is an exciting episode, and one in which I got a major download about something Brian said related to making both Small Groups AND disciple-making work hand in hand without cannibalizing each other.

In this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

0:56 Prioritizing Disciple-Making

3:05 The difference between disciple-making and small group ministry

9:48 First principles disciple-making

19:54 Getting to the 4th generation and beyond

24:40 From inclusive to exclusive invitations

29:32 Acceptable time commitment

33:38 What actually works to transform lives

39:00 How to engage local churches

Resources:

Disciples Made: https://disciplesmade.com

The Patient Ferment of the Early Church by Alan Kreider: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0801048494/

Not A Fan by Kyle Idleman: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0310344700/

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Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

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99% of pastors admit that they're failing at this.

And it's one of the reasons nobody can tell me where to find a disciple-making movement that survives to the fourth generation and beyond...one that truly makes 'viral' disciples, and grows explosively.

Jesus never told us to build a church.

He told us to make disciples.

When we make disciples, they naturally form a strong church.

But if we get the order of those wrong, well, we're seeing the result of that today.

In this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:29 99% of pastors think we're failing

4:04 Solution 1: Track

6:42 Solution 2: Celebrate

8:45 Solution 3: Method

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RESOURCES:

Life on Life Discipleship: https://www.1kh.org/discipleship

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This question is the foundation for SO much of our lives as Christians as we walk with Jesus.

If He looked around today, would He recognize the church?

How do we really know if the church we're worshiping in was what He had in mind?

What are the consequences, if not?

I'll be diving into all of that today, with this, the first of a multi-part video series asking the question, "what kind of church did Jesus envision?"

In this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

0:37 Is this what Jesus had in mind?

2:11 If you only read the New Testament...

9:03 The Foundation In Family

11:05 The Confession

15:45 Parallel Government

19:51 Apprenticeship Movement

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Is there one true church?

Or could Jesus have been talking about the different expressions of church in His parable about the wineskin that we read about in Matthew, Mark, and Luke?

I'm willing to say that maybe Jesus Himself preferred the old wine, and hey, maybe it is better in the older traditions in some ways. BUT...

There are just too many people who are new wine, who need new wineskins.

I couldn't possibly pigeonhole myself and feel pressured to suggest that everybody needs to fit into old wineskins.

Obviously this isn't an exhaustive ecclesiology, but what do you think about my take on this? Let me know in the comments!

In this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:02 How Jesus answers the question in Matthew

4:01 Mark's version

5:10 Luke's parable

6:34 Answering the most divisive question

8:50 Room for both

11:23 Practical application

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Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

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This seems like something only theologians would worry about, but we're seeing it play out on the ground, and it's time to call it out.

The evangelical movement lacks a cohesive ecclesiology and can't seem to accurately or adequately define what "church" even is.

If we don't figure this out, we'll just keep losing people and be leaving so much potential on the table.

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Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

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Sometimes it takes leaving a position to see what you've been missing the whole time.

That was certainly the case for today's guest, Cory Hartman.

After 13 years in a pastoral role, he entered a new chapter as a dad looking for a church for his family...

And it was only then that he realized just how much time, money, and energy went into making sure the Sunday morning service ran smoothly. And that that same amount of resources was NOT being dedicated to disciple-making.

Through a number of opportunities and new experiences, he ended up dedicating his time to building a network amongst disciple-making movements across the world, and continues that work with New Generations.

We talked about the lessons Cory learned after leaving pastoral ministry, how to make disciples in our ultra-urban environments in the West, and what we can learn from other disciple-making movements around the world.

In this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

0:36 Cory and New Generations

4:30 How it all got started

13:54 Lessons about church from outside a pastoral role

23:29 New insights on what the church is meant to be

29:29 How do we make disciples in the modern urban context?

40:15 Are there any western disciple-making movements getting to the 4th generation?

45:04 Starting chain reactions in the West

Resources:

New Generations: https://newgenerations.network

Future Church by Cory Hartman and Will Mancini: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1540900614/

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What does it look like when a church gets serious about making disciples who make disciples?

You're about to find out.

We're really excited to bring you this sermon from my friend Chris Marlin, who is the pastor at City Church OTR.

Chris is one of a handful of pastors around Cincinnatti who, around the exact same time, has been inspired to really step into disciple-making as a church leader.

His process is very similar to the 1KH model, and so we wanted to share his perspective and his framework because we think it's highly duplicable across other churches around the city and nation.

In this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:20 Dominion

4:00 How did Christianity grow so rapidly?

14:39 Jesus and Paul's last words

20:30 Triads

28:49 Why are we doing this?

Resources:

Dominion by Tom Holland: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NCY9RG9/

Resilient Faith by Gerald Sittser:

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Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

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The vast majority of Christians we meet are blatantly disobedient to the Great Commission...they're not making disciples.

Not many people know what this looks like or how to do it, and yet...

When we bring our structured, tested plan for disciple-making to people, they often push back on us for this main reason.

Honestly it doesn't make sense! But we think it has a lot to do with our western cultural mindset and we dive into that in this episode.

We'll also give you a couple of practical ways to move into intentional, disciple-making relationships that multiply.

In this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:41 The number one pushback we get to disciple-making

6:51 In violation of the great commission

13:29 The invitation

20:06 Shift in discipleship meaning

27:28 Get a disciple-making movement going

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🏠 LEARN HOW TO MAKE DISCIPLES FOR JESUS, IN AND THROUGH YOUR HOME: 1kh.org

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Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

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