Is your church plant built for disciple making?

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The North American model of church is not based upon disciple making, but that can be changed in a new church plant. Join Bobby and Paul as they describe how to plant new churches with disciple making DNA.

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Welcome to One Eighty, welcome to Disciple-Making. Over the next 8 weeks, we will be turning our focus to creating a discipleship culture as we look ahead to our 2024 Global Exponential Conference March 4-7th.

This podcast is one of several workshops from Exponential’s Global 2023 Conference in Orlando. You can grab the Evangelism Resource Kit for this workshop and more to train you and your team: https://multiplication.org/product/evangelism-2023-orlando-workshops-resource-kit/

To learn more about Exponential events, visit: https://exponential.org/events

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Discipleship MUST always be guided by good theology.

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On this episode join Bobby and Carl as they explore why it’s more important now than ever to have good theology. They will talk about practical tools the local church needs in this cultural moment.

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Welcome to One Eighty, welcome to Disciple-Making. Over the next 8 weeks, we will be turning our focus to creating a discipleship culture as we look ahead to our 2024 Global Exponential Conference March 4-7th.

This podcast is one of several workshops from Exponential’s Global 2023 Conference in Orlando. You can grab the Evangelism Resource Kit for this workshop and more to train you and your team: https://multiplication.org/product/evangelism-2023-orlando-workshops-resource-kit/

To learn more about Exponential events, visit: https://exponential.org/events

For all other links: https://shor.by/Exponential

Welcome to One Eighty, welcome to Discipleship. Over the next 8 weeks, we will be turning our focus to creating a discipleship culture as we look ahead to our 2024 Global Exponential Conference March 4-7th.

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On this episode we are talking about how Jesus’ style of evangelism always led folks to follow Him. So many times we try to separate evangelism and discipleship. That leaves us with weak Christians and an even weaker church. Walk with us through the exploration of the Master’s plan for evangelism that leads to discipleship.

Speaker: Dan Leitz

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This podcast is one of several workshops from Exponential’s Global 2023 Conference in Orlando. You can grab the Evangelism Resource Kit for this workshop and more to train you and your team: https://multiplication.org/product/evangelism-2023-orlando-workshops-resource-kit/

To learn more about Exponential events, visit: https://exponential.org/events

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Are your members equipped for the personal mission? Many of us tried turning our churches into evangelistic “fishing ponds.” That didn’t work. We taught our members to invite others to church instead of equipping them to go and make disciples. So, let’s turn our equip our members as “spiritual archaeologists” uncovering treasure in the people around them. The goal is to embolden ordinary Christ-followers to enter and explore friendships among the 70 percent of Americans no longer interested in Christianity. If you are looking for a simple, practical and profound way to grow your church on mission, this is the episode for you.

 

Evangelism Series // Week 5

Speakers: Ralph Moore

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This podcast is one of several workshops from Exponential’s Global 2023 Conference in Orlando. You can grab the Evangelism Resource Kit for this workshop and more to train you and your team: https://multiplication.org/product/evangelism-2023-orlando-workshops-resource-kit/

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Dive into a live Q&A session with Faith Eury Cho, Albert Tate and Aaron & Hannah Barnett as they unpack some keys to an evangelism culture and why evangelism is not a Lost Cause.

Evangelism Series // Week 4

Speakers: Faith Eury Cho, Albert Tate, Aaron & Hannah Barnett

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This podcast is one of several workshops from Exponential’s Global 2023 Conference in Orlando. You can grab the Evangelism Resource Kit for this workshop and more to train you and your team: https://multiplication.org/product/evangelism-2023-orlando-workshops-resource-kit/

To learn more about Exponential events, visit: https://exponential.org/events

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“Gospel” literally means “good news” … but if you ask many people in our increasingly pluralist and secular world, Christians who claim it as our central truth are less and less associated with anything resembling “good news”! This workshop will equip you in ways to share the gospel, in ways that sound like it’s truly good news again, especially to those in the next generation on whom the future of the church realize. We consider realities of our cultural moment, and how our changing mission field needs new and different strategies than the past decades. And we’ll discover tangible ways to display and declare the gospel in the stories that shape the adults of tomorrow.

Evangelism Series // Week 3

Speaker: Ben Connelly

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This podcast is one of several workshops from Exponential’s Global 2023 Conference in Orlando. You can grab the Evangelism Resource Kit for this workshop and more to train you and your team: https://multiplication.org/product/evangelism-2023-orlando-workshops-resource-kit/

To learn more about Exponential events, visit: https://exponential.org/events

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Evangelism Series // Week 2

Deconstruction has long been the activity of young people inside and outside of the church. However, this new wave of deconstruction has unique challenges that are deeply sociological and theological. In this episode, Daniel Yang explains how church planting models from 1980-2020 are falling short in addressing this new wave of deconstruction but also why Gen-Zers represent hope, not just for new models, but also for how God is redeeming their deconstruction for the greater good of the Church in America.

Speaker: Daniel Yang

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This podcast is one of several workshops from Exponential’s Global 2023 Conference in Orlando. You can grab the Evangelism Resource Kit for this workshop and more to train you and your team: https://multiplication.org/product/evangelism-2023-orlando-workshops-resource-kit/

To learn more about Exponential events, visit: https://exponential.org/events

For all other links: https://shor.by/Exponential

Corner Church is a way to answer the question, “How are we going to plant churches in communities that are not populated with disconnected, disaffiliated, or disgruntled Christians?” Evangelism and discipleship of people who are not in the almost-Christian subculture cannot be accomplished through simple invitations and information. It takes a process of redefinition, moving from indifference or angst to interest and connection. This redefinition process is accomplished by being valuable to the community and through intentionally building trusted relationships. 

Corner Church’s mission is to be multipliers, planting human-scaled churches that are housed in valued in-community businesses. In 2006, they built their first Corner Church and launched their first Corner Coffee. 

Today, they are in four communities serving hundreds of people every day in their four Corner Coffee locations and gathering as churches in their coffee houses every Sunday.

Listen to Episode 32 of the podcast and access the show notes below. 

Future Church Insights: 

Corner Church's Unique Model: Corner Church is a community-focused church that operates within coffee shops. Their mission is to have a presence within walking distance of all individuals in urban, dense parts of the city. By meeting in coffee shops, they provide a valuable space for people to come and go throughout the week, while also subsidizing the church's leases and facilities. This model allows the church to focus on pastoral endeavors, with the coffee shops covering most of the rent costs. 

The Importance of Discipleship: Corner Church emphasizes the importance of discipling and building relationships with individuals over time. They recognize that discipling takes a lot of time and effort, but it is an essential part of their mission. They have learned that it is crucial to prioritize the church first before focusing on business endeavors, as businesses can be complicated and never become easy. They emphasize the need to be in it for the long game and have a great team.

The Value of Collaboration and Letting Go: As Corner Church has grown and multiplied, they have shifted from a founder-centric model to a more communal and organizational ethos. They have learned the importance of collaboration and letting go of control, allowing team members and community pastors to have the freedom to make decisions within their communities. They believe in being reachable and open to sharing their experiences and insights with others who are interested in starting similar initiatives.

Goals and Desired Outcomes of Corner Church:

Our calling as a church is to be connecting people to each other and to Jesus. Our mission is to have a Corner Church and valued in-community business within walking distance of the people living in the urban dense parts of our city. Our outreach is through being relational redefiners in the community.

Some desired outcomes are:

Refine a sustainable planting process that is economically and missionally sustainable in post-Christian communities.

Create principles and systems that allow for replication in other cities around our country.

Accelerate the replication process to live out our calling of connecting more people to each other and to Christ.

Links:

https://www.corner.church/

Key Quotes from the episode from Scott Woller:

“When we spend the time to learn about the stories of those around us, it helps shape the way we see the world, and the way we are able to recognize what God is doing in those around us.” 

“Society seems to have lost the ability to see value in their neighbors. Sharing our stories is an opportunity for redefinition and an opportunity for hope that God really is at work.”

“We want to see a healthy church within walking distance of everyone.” 

“True community doesn’t happen by accident but through a continual, intentional relationship with one another.”

Evangelism Series // Week 1

Dive deeper into the conversation of God’s Lost Cause with Dave Ferguson, Aaron Barnett and Hannah Barnett.

• The Need for Reviving the Lost Cause: Problem: Evangelism has become a taboo word. Doing evangelism is seen as culturally inappropriate. Even many Christians feel like evangelism is wrong. But at the same time, it was central to Jesus’ mission. (Luke 19:10) Solution: If we are going to accomplish the mission of Jesus, we must revive evangelism. We must plant new churches that have cultures that prioritize evangelism by creating a safe place for people to belong before they believe. A church with a culture of evangelism will hold the Biblical values of evangelism, share the compelling narratives of evangelism, and live out the white-hot faith behaviors of an evangelistic church.

• God’s Commitment to the Lost Cause: God’s commitment to the Lost Cause is relentless and ultimate. Romans 5:8 tells us that “God demonstrates his own love for us in this, while we were still sinners Christ died for us.” While we were still in the process of rejecting him, God was persistently pursuing us in the person of Jesus. He was on mission to restore a broken relationship with us each of us. Lost people matter to God and it is his desire that all of us come to know him (“God is patient … not wanting anyone to perish, but for everyone to come to repentance.” -2 Peter 3:9). We are all prodigals that God wants to find their way back to him and our eternal home.

• Our Commitment to God’s Lost Cause: Our commitment to the Lost Cause should be passionate and personal. Our commitment to the Lost Cause begins when we take it personal. We are all lost people! When we let that truth motivate us, we can’t help but be passionate about reaching people far from God. In his book, Movements, Steve Addison reminds us that the movements that change the world are missionary movements of Christ follower with a white-hot faith. The same love that stirred God to sacrifice his son for us should stir inside each of us for a lost world. We should each adopt Jesus’ mission as our own personal mission: “to seek and save the lost.” (Luke 19:10) It was because of that mission Jesus goes out of his way to get to know Zacchaeus and ultimately brings salvation to his house. And here is what happens when we have that kind of passion for the Lost Cause: “And each day the Lord added to their fellowship those who were being saved.” (Acts 2:47) As leaders who are passionate about the Lost Cause the only thing that will matter is making sure that the lost are found. As a result of that passion, we will commit to starting new churches with evangelistic cultures, knowing this is the best way to reach a lost world.

Speakers: Dave Ferguson, Aaron Barnett, Hannah Barnett

This podcast is one of several workshops from Exponential’s Global 2023 Conference in Orlando. You can grab the Evangelism Resource Kit for this workshop and more to train you and your team: https://multiplication.org/product/evangelism-2023-orlando-workshops-resource-kit/

To learn more about Exponential events, visit https://exponential.org/events

Joni & Friends seeks to mobilize the global church to evangelize, disciple, and serve people living with a disability. Their goal is to continue to implement a global plan that builds geographically localized networks of churches that inspire, train, and mobilize the Church worldwide to build a culture that embraces individuals and families affected by disabilities as an indispensable part of the body of Christ. 

When churches are for, with, and by people affected by disability, relationships – that is belonging – supersede programs. This strategy includes evaluating church traditions for inclusiveness, exploring how people are valued by the church considering a biblical worldview, understanding the importance of belonging (being wanted and needed), engaging those with disabilities without any preconceptions, and the role that obedience to God’s Word plays in changing the culture of a church. 

Training resources that center around a biblical worldview on disability and a 5-stage process of church culture change are central to building and supporting the 36 networks established in the past two years.

Listen to Episode 31 of the podcast and access the show notes below. 

Future Church Insights: 

There are 61 million people affected by disability in the United States. That's one in five people. One in three families.

Through training and resources, we can equip you and your church with practical tools for including people of all abilities in the life and ministry of your church, helping people with disabilities find their place in the body of Christ.

People with disabilities are considered one of the world’s largest under-represented groups. The church is largely unprepared for the burgeoning disabled population.

Goals and Desired Outcomes of Joni and Friends:

Networks of leaders from churches and Christian organizations are formed in all metropolitan areas across the United States for providing training, encouragement, and collaboration, while working through a 5-stage process of church culture change, resulting in a world where every person with a disability finds hope, dignity, and their place in the body of Christ.

Institutions and organizations equipping leaders to plant churches will include biblical understanding and training for evangelizing, discipling, and serving people living with a disability.

Vision casting and training opportunities for evangelizing, discipling, and serving people living with disabilities will be improved and more effectively implemented through pastors and church leaders around the world.

Links:

https://joniandfriends.org/

Key Quotes from the episode from Bret Welshymer:

“People are people, and everybody has a place in the church family. When you get to know somebody, you can help them to be a part of the family. If you never take the time to get to know them, that’s not going to happen.” 

“Until we get past that point of unawareness and ignorance about the disability community, we're not going to be prepared to welcome and include them in our churches.” 

“The disability community is likely the largest hidden people unreached group in the world today. We have an opportunity through the local church right here in the United States to reach that people group.”