The Movement Cast

Hello friend! Before I share today’s podcast, I’d love to give you a clearer glimpse of what is inside Multiplying Disciplers, the training platform we’ll be launching in the next few days.

It is not just a collection of courses. Our vision is to provide practical, accessible equipping for people who long to multiply disciples — helping them grow step by step in the skills, practices, and habits that lead to greater fruitfulness.

That is why every module is designed to move beyond theory. Learners are guided toward practical next steps, real ministry application, and simple actions they can put into practice right away.

The first available programs are:

* Cultivating Expectant Faith for a Movement

* Making Your Discipling Reproducible

* Seven Best Practices of Multiplying Disciplers

* Developing a Gospel Message that is Good News

* Assessing the Blockers and Boosters of Your Ministry

* Becoming an Empowering Leader Who Unlocks Others

A few things make this platform especially unique:

* Content shaped by the broadest-ever research on movements

* Training created by experienced movement practitioners

* Flexible learning designed for busy ministry leaders

* Practical next steps integrated throughout the learning process

* Modules designed not just to inform, but to transform

And here’s something important: The first 1000 people who join as Founding Members will receive free access for one full year.

If you’d like to get a first feel for the platform before launch, you can explore the website here: https://multiplying-disciplers.org/

We’ll launch in just a few day. On launch day, I’ll send you the signup link so you can join as a Founding Member. We would love for you to be part of this from the beginning.

Now to today’s podcast. If you’ve ever tried to move a church forward, you’ve felt the tension: everyone wants renewal—until it requires them to change. Big vision is common; lasting transformation is not.

In Part 2, Rich Robinson—co-founder and team leader of the Movement Leaders Collective (with Alan Hirsch) and co-founder of CREO—unpacks his simple but profound 4-stage change pathway: DREAM, DISCOVER, DESIGN, DEPLOY. You’ll hear why most churches hit a bottleneck between inspiring ideas and real implementation, why the leader’s inner life matters more than any outward process, and how to make it through the “valley” when momentum drops and discouragement rises. If you want to lead change with both courage and wisdom, this conversation will give you a clear map. If you’re interested in more, here’s a link to Rich’s book “All Change”.

Would you take a movement to think, Who in your network will benefit from this? Please forward or restack—it could inspire someone’s next step in multiplying leaders.

Warmly, Emanuel Prinz - Father’s beloved & movement activist

Greetings, friend! Before sharing today’s podcast with you, I have exciting news. Over the years, I’ve had countless conversations with leaders who deeply want to make disciples who multiply. They don’t lack passion. What they often lack is practical, accessible equipping that actually helps build the competencies needed for disciple multiplication in real life.

That is why our team has spent many months building something new.

At the end of this month, we will launch Multiplying Disciplers — a new online training platform designed specifically to equip movement practitioners, and church and ministry leaders to become multiplying disciplers. We built it for people like you.

This is not simply “another course platform.” Every module is designed to be practical, immediately actionable, and transformational.

The content draws from the broadest-ever research on movements, combined with the experience of seasoned movement practitioners and educational experts.

Our goal is simple: to help leaders move from inspiration to real-life multiplication.

At launch, the first 1000 people who join as Founding Members will receive free access for one year.

Over the next weeks, I’ll tell you more about what is inside the platform. We can’t wait to finally share this with you.

Now to this week’s podcast. If you’ve ever tried to lead meaningful change in church life, you already know the brutal paradox: people want things to change—until the change touches them. Vision is the easy part. The hard part is moving a community from “That sounds inspiring” to “We’re actually living differently.”

In today’s episode, I’m joined by my friend and fellow countryman Rich Robinson—co-founder and team leader of the Movement Leaders Collective (with Alan Hirsch) and co-founder of CREO. Rich has helped leaders around the world introduce real, lasting, transformational change—not hype, not quick fixes, but change that actually sticks.

We’re having a heart-to-heart conversation about the deeper realities of change. You’ll walk away with a sharper lens on what’s happening beneath the surface—because the real battle is often there—language for what’s really going on when momentum stalls or resistance rises, and fresh courage to lead with conviction when change gets costly.

If you’re carrying a vision for renewal but feeling the weight of “How do we actually get there?”, this episode will strengthen your hands and sharpen your next steps.

If you’re interested in more, here’s a link to Rich’s book “All Change”.

Would you take a movement to think, Who in your network will benefit from this? Please forward or restack—it could inspire someone’s next step in multiplying leaders.

Warmly, Emanuel Prinz - Father’s beloved & movement activist

Greetings to you!

My team and I have been overwhelmed by the reponse to our call for test users for the new digital training platform “Multiplying Disciplers” - a hugeThank-you to everyone who has volunteered. The only groups for which we still need more test users are women and practitioners from Africa.

If you are either—or both—we would love to hear from you! Every test user will receive free early access to our first six training modules and can explore one or several courses. All we ask in return is that they share suggestions for improvement. If you’d like to be a test user, simply reply to this message with the subject line “Test User.”

Today’s podcast episode continues our conversation on The Habits of a Multiplying Disciples. If multiplication in disciple-making feels more difficult than it ought to, the obstacle may not be your commitment or your zeal—it may be the patterns you’ve (unintentionally) trained into your daily life.

I’m again joined by Roy Moran, a pioneer of disciple-making movements in North America. Roy lays out the core habits that mark multiplying disciples, why he frames them as habits rather than occasional practices, and how lasting multiplication grows from consistent rhythms—not momentary bursts of motivation. Most importantly, we talk about how you can begin cultivating these habits in your own life.

If you’re aiming for progress that endures—not just a short-term push—this episode will encourage you and give you concrete next steps.

Can you pause for a moment and think, who in your network will benefit from this? Please forward or restack—it could inspire someone’s next step in multiplying leaders.

Warmly, Emanuel Prinz - Father’s beloved & movement activist

Assalamu aleikum - peace be upon you! When you read this, I was scheduled to be in the Middle East, serving the leaders of NEO Leaders, a ministry of NOVO. NEO workers have started almost 10,000 new groups among Cousins in the Middle East in the last year alone, with a total of 60,000 groups started. The NEO leaders loved my book What Actually Starts Movements so much that they have translated it into Arabic. We will soon publish it on Kindle as well.

Today’s episode is about The Habits of a Multiplying Disciples. If disciple-making multiplication feels harder than it “should,” there’s a good chance the issue isn’t your vision or your passion—it’s your habits.

I’m joined by Roy Moran, a pioneer of disciple-making movements in North America. Roy unpacks what these habits are, why he insists on developing habits rather than merely practices, and why multiplication is sustained not by good intentions, but by repeatable rhythms.

If you want to take your disciple-making to the next level—not for a week, but for the long haul—this conversation will both inspire you and equip you.

Can you pause for a moment and think, who in your network will benefit from this? Please forward or restack—it could inspire someone’s next step in multiplying leaders.

Warmly, Emanuel Prinz - Father’s beloved & movement activist

Greetings, friend.

Today in our on “Making Ministry Self-Sustaining” my guest Sevanand Kumar and I will be talking about Building Sustainable Disciple-Making Movements.

Sevanand is one of the handful most effective disciplers and church-planters I’ve met in my entire life. Not only that, he has helped build some of the most self-sustaining Christian movements I’m aware of today. If you want to make your ministry last, you’ll want to listen to him and benefit from his hard-won wisdom.

Who in your network will benefit from this? Please forward or restack—it could inspire someone’s next step in multiplying leaders.

Warmly, Emanuel Prinz - Father’s beloved & movement activist

Peace to you—especially in a world that feels increasingly at war. When Iran appears in the news, we usually hear about conflict, crackdowns, and instability. Yet beyond the headlines, God is moving powerfully.

In this episode, I’m joined by Phil Moore for a second time to look at the rapidly growing house church movement in Iran—marked by courageous witness and an “intentional and intense” approach to making disciples. Phil has served alongside this movement for years, and he’s recently written about the reasons behind its remarkable growth in The Forgotten Manifesto of Jesus: How Revival in Iran is Spreading Across the World. You can find more insights from the Iranian revival in the book.

Who in your network will benefit from this? Please forward or restack—it could inspire someone’s next step in multiplying leaders.

Warmly, Emanuel Prinz - Father’s beloved & movement activist

Peace on you in a world at war! The media headlines on Iran tell us about bombings, targeted assassinations, civil unrest, and mass arrests. But behind the scenes, God is at work in remarkable ways.

Phil Moore joins me to explore the growing house church movement in Iran, highlighting their confident evangelism and “intentional and intense” disciple-making. Phil has been engaged with this movement for several years and recently wrote a book uncovering why it has been growing so rapidly: The Forgotten Manifesto of Jesus: How Revival in Iran is Spreading Across the World where you can find more insights from the Iranian revival.

Who in your network will benefit from this? Please forward or restack—it could inspire someone’s next step in multiplying leaders.

Warmly, Emanuel Prinz - Father’s beloved & movement activist

Greetings in Jesus name!

We’re excited about how our podcast continues to grow. For the first time, an episode has been downloaded more than 2,000 times! My conversation with Alan Hirsch on “How Church Multiply” has been listened to 2,598 times to date, to be exact.

We’ve received a great deal of thankful feedback that we tackled the tricky topic of money and ministry in our last podcast. Here is Part 2 of our conversation, “When Money Hurts Ministry.”

If you’ve ever thought, “If we just had more money, our ministry could really take off,” this episode is for you. I speak with movement practitioner and author Brett Butler about how funding can unintentionally weaken movements, why “more money” is rarely the real solution, and what it looks like to move toward truly self-sustaining ministry. We also explore biblical principles for handling money wisely and practical ways to discern when funding helps—and when it quietly harms.

If, after listening, you want to go deeper, you can do this on Brett’s website www.movementsandmoney.org, or check out his book To Whom Much Was Given in audio or print, offered at subsided prices.

Who in your network will benefit from this? Please forward or restack—it could inspire someone’s next step in multiplying leaders.

Warmly, Emanuel Prinz - Father’s beloved & movement activist

A blessed New Year to you! I pray you are stepping into 2026 with a fresh passion for your God-given vision, expectant faith for God-sized faith targets, and clear priorities. I’ve just returned from a few days of personal retreat where I cultivated all this in my heart. Such personal retreats I take at the turn of every year—to evaluate, listen to God, and determine faith goals for the next year.

If you’ve ever thought, “If we just had more money, our ministry could really take off,” this episode is for you. I sit down with movement practitioner and author Brett Butler to tackle one of the trickiest issues in ministry - money. Together we explore the theme “When Money Hurts Ministry.” Drawing on years of conversations with movement leaders, Brett unpacks how funding can unintentionally damage movements, why “more money” is rarely the real solution, and how leaders can move toward truly self-sustaining ministry.

We dive into biblical principles for handling money wisely, and how to discern when funding actually helps—and when it quietly harms. This conversation is especially for frontline movement practitioners and leaders who wrestle with the financial side of multiplying disciples and churches.

If, after listening, you want to go deeper, you can do this on Brett’s website www.movementsandmoney.org, or check out his book To Whom Much Was Given in audio or print, offered at subsided prices.

Who in your network will benefit from this? Please forward or restack—it could inspire someone’s next step in making their ministry more self-sustaining..

Warmly, Emanuel Prinz - Father’s beloved & movement activist

Hi! First, I apologize for the poor audio quality in the last episode with Alan Hirsch. One wrong recording setting slipped through—but we’ll do our very best to ensure you get not only top-quality content but also top-quality audio from us in the future.

Greetings from Germany this week! My sending church “Jesus Haus Düsseldorf” is increasingly using Discovery Groups, both in homes and online—and are seeing first fruits, secularized ‘Heathens’ joining. I’m there helping them take this to the next level.

In this week’s episode, I talk with Joe Handley about polycentric leadership and his journey in developing a leadership model that fits 21st-century realities in ministry and mission. There are some beautiful nuggets of leadership gold in this conversation. Enjoy listening!

Who in your network will benefit from this? Please forward or restack—it could inspire someone’s next step in multiplying leaders.

Warmly, Emanuel Prinz - Father’s beloved & movement activist