Our guest host Tim Parker and his brother-in-law Pastor David Layser, Trinity Church Danville, PA @trinitychurch7244, finish the series on overcoming the 7 biggest barriers to making disciples. Today they focus on the fact that it is a huge barrier if we do not truly and fully believe in Jesus and the urgency of obediently seeking to make disciples. As with previous weeks, Tim and David talk through this barrier from their personal experience and offer 3 ways for you to overcome this barrier if you experience it in your life.

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Conversation Quadrants - youtu.be/D9TljHre_4g

Discovery Bible Study - youtu.be/dI0M7Ndkx8I

Guest Host Pastor Tim Parker and David Layser continue to discuss the 7 biggest barriers to making disciples, looking at how succumbing to complacency stops us from making disciples. We are all prone to comfort and to keep doing what we have always done. God is calling us to more! Tim and David dive into their own complacency and how they have worked to overcome in their own discipleship journey. The episode ends with practical tips on how you can take steps to overcome complacency in your own life.

We start a new series, Overcoming the 7 Biggest Barriers to Making Disciples, with guest host Tim Parker today. Tim is the Associate Pastor at Oakdale Church and will be filling in as host for Kevin during this series. Tim has invited his brother-in-law, David Layser, Pastor of Trinity Church in Danville, PA. This series will unpack the 7 biggest barriers we all experience in trying to be disciple-makers, with personal examples of how Tim and David have encountered each barrier in their own lives. Every episode will end with our hosts offering practical tips on how we can all overcome the barriers.

Today we start by looking at how our Self-Centeredness is a huge road block on our ability to obediently make disciples.

Today, Kevin Baker & Tim Parker, finish their 7 part series on raising the sails of disciple-making movements by focusing on the need for disciples to have on going coaching. It is important for disciple-makers to have a mentor or coach that has more experience and can offer insight into what you are doing in your walk with Jesus. Coaches can also just help you not to feel alone in this journey and offer encouragement with your wins and with your failures. They end with a challenge for each of us to start a discovery group.

Quick Summary:

- Everyone needs a coach

- Coaches help encourage, provide insight and accountability

- Find someone who you can pour into who is new to disciple-making

Tune in next week for Tim Parker to lead another 7 part series focusing on overcoming the 7 biggest barriers to disciple-making.

What do you do next after you have a spiritual conversation? Kevin Baker and Tim Parker are back this week to discuss what you do as they continue the 7 week Sails of Disciple-Making series. Your next step should be to invite them into a discovery group which will allow them to encounter sculpture for themselves. Kevin and Tim explain what a discovery group is and offer practical examples on how to lead people far from God to discover more about Him.

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Kevin Baker and Tim Parker are back this week to discuss Going Out Among the Lost as they continue the 7 week Sails of Disciple-Making series. Going out among the lost is not sitting on a street corner, with a sign and bullhorn yelling at people. It is a change in mindset that you can choose to make each day where you will try and treat every interaction you have with other people as an opportunity to point them to God. This could be in your own household, at work, at the barber shop/hair salon, or even on social media. Watch for tips on how to reach the people in your life who are far from God as we plant seeds and see God bring about results.

- Going out is NOT standing on a street corner with a sign

- Going out is a mindset change, go about your day but point people to God

- Each of us can plant seeds around us and, with prayer, see God bring results

Quick Tips:

- The best way to train other believers is to show them how you live out disciple-making

- Pray with them before you go out to help focus the time among people far from God