Exponential NEXT Podcast

You show up at church every Sunday. You see people you know. You listen to a sermon together. And then you go home feeling just as isolated as you did before. What’s going on?

We all know that a church is supposed to be a community. The trick is to actually make it one. Communities don’t happen by chance—certainly not in our Lone Ranger culture that values independence and individualism. A truly Christian community must be built by intentional practices that allow for deeper connections, centered on the unity that can only be found in Christ.

In A Field Guide for Genuine Community, longtime pastor and discipleship trainer Ben Connelly shows you that the biblical model for community is the family of God. In twenty-five short, practical readings, he takes you beyond the surface and helps you learn to connect with your brothers and sisters as true family members. The church isn’t meant to be a collection of strangers. God intends for you to find a unified and purposeful household where you truly belong.

Right before Jesus left planet Earth, He reminded His closest followers of His vision for how the mission would be accomplished and gave us this third ‘great’ in John 17:22-23: “…that they may be one as we are one — I in them and you in me — so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me…” This is the Great Collaboration. Yes, we are to “Go”; yes, we are to “Love”; but the missing piece from the mission is that we are to “Go” … and “Love” … but “TOGETHER!”

Mobilizing Missional Disciples

Repentance: The catalyst for individual formation (discipleship) and community transformation (mission)

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Featured Guests:

CANDACE LEWIS — President-Dean of Gammon Theological Seminary

JAIME JIMENEZ — Pastor of Mission and Mercy at Christ the King Presbyterian Church

Hosts:

RYAN HAIRSTON — National Director of Forge America

BETH WOLFF — Pastor at Clarksburg Church in Clarksburg, MD

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Joining God in the renewal of our cities will require, more than ever, that followers of Jesus live as missional disciples in the spaces they live, work, and play. This past year has added complexity to mobilizing disciples, as well as uncovered many of our deficiencies.

So how do pastors and planters help those they lead become missional disciples who make disciples? What are the paradigms to rethink? What are the practical steps leaders need to take in order to adapt their current discipleship pathways to meet our new reality?

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