In this interview, Joe and Dr. Jim discuss Church history, ministry metrics, and how asking the right questions can better align our hearts to join God in God's work in the world. Issues of character formation, spiritual formation, and discipleship are addressed as well.

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In this episode, Cory and Brian interview regular contributor Joe Reed. This is a set up episode for an interview Joe has with Dr. Jim Singleton on what we count in disciple-making movements and why that's important.

"We can't just worry about multiplication. We have to make sure we're multiplying healthy disciples."

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In this episode, Cory and Brian interview Bryan Dolinary, a local disciple-making leader in the KC Underground. Bryan has been engaged in seeing microchurches emerge in the KC area for over 15 years and currently is part of leading a microchurch in the Piper community. In this episode, we drill down into the practice of prayer walking.

"God was calling me to prayer walk these neighborhoods to help create good soil that he would move in."

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In this episode, Cory and Brian interview Phil Alessi. Phil was a key mentor for Cory around engaging the jail context. As an outsider, Phil had to effectively utilize the Person of Peace strategy to see movement in the jails where he was planting the gospel. Finding a person of peace in your own context will accelerate mission.

"You will be most effective in the places where you have a reason to exist."

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In this episode, Cory and Brian interview Mike Jensen. Mike is a disciple-making and microchurch leader with the KC Underground. He was once a pastor of predominant model church in a mainline denomination. Now Mike is a local business leader in KC and also leads a freedom and deliverance ministry called Freedom Fighters. Along with the local Freedom Fighters work, he and his wife also travel the country and train other teams in this important work.

"I was an abnormal Christian. I wasn't actually doing the things Jesus said. That's the difference. Now I just do what he said to do."

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In this episode, Cory and Brian interview Jon DeWitt. Jon is one of the primary leaders within the Share the Hope network. His story begins as a person attending Share the Hope to currently serving as the Coaching Director for the Share the Hope Hub. In this role, he coaches microchurch leaders as they reproduce disciples and microchurches among formerly incarcerated men and those walking out of addiction.

"We are not building Share the Hope for God. He is building his Kingdom his way, which means we are just free to be. We get to come alongside him as he does the work!"

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In this episode, Cory and Brian interview Chad Chambers. Chad has been engaged in disciple-making within the rodeo context for years. The Chambers family plays a significant role in shepherding the microchurch among the youth rodeo circuit. Chad shares his own story of meeting Jesus and how he continues to join Jesus in disciple-making with the people to whom he and his family feel the greatest level of sentness.

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In this episode, Cory and Brian interview Ryan and Bre Wiebe. Ryan and Bre are founding members of the KC Underground. They are disciple-making and microchurch leaders in the Western Shawnee area. Bre is the ongoing coaching director of the Underground, and Ryan is the aquatics director for a local municipality. We'll walk through the story of how their microchurch emerged and what Jesus has taught them on this journey over the last 3 - 5 years.

"If you journey with Jesus long enough, it will always go to Jesus." - Bre

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In this episode, Cory and Brian interview David and Cheryl Johnson. David and Cheryl are founding members of the Kansas City Underground. They are disciple-making and microchurch leaders in a couple of different contexts from neighborhoods to the state prison. We'll talk through why this paradigm is so important to them, how their microchurches have emerged, and the real stories that have shaped these extended spiritual families. 

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The podcast you listen to will be the fifth in a series during 2022 around the themes of grace and supplication. These episodes will be dropped at various points throughout the year. We hope that you will head over to kcunderground.org/prayer-fasting and grab the prayer guide associated with this podcast.