You may not know Greg by name or reputation but he's already impacted your life.

A seasoned disciplemaker, church planter and holder of a Ph.D. in psychometrics he's crafted assessment tools that most of us have used directly or indirectly. From a DISC test to the Becoming Level 5 tool to a new disciplemaking assessment for NorthPoint Church, Greg has touched us all.

In this interview, Greg uncovers a disciple maker's journey from CRU to church planting to discovering his unique place in the body of Christ. Eventually, he came to develop assessment tools to uncover strengths and weaknesses in an effort to guide you to your desired outcomes. A partial list of tools Greg has created include:

• Becoming a Level 5 Multiplying Church (B5) for Exponential
• Becoming a DiscipleMaker (DM5) for Exponential & Discipleship.org
• HeroMaker (HM5) for Exponential and Dave Ferguson/Warren Byrd
• Multiplier (M5) for Exponential
• TrueWiring suite of instruments (DISC, Motivators, EQ & Conflict Profile)
• TrueWiring4Churches suite (DISC, Motivators, EQ, Conflict Profile & Spiritual Gifts) for Rock RMS and TrueWiring
• Spiritual Gifts
• Church LifeCycle–Five Stages of development and decline
• 360 Discipleship Assessment for ECO-Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians
• Flourishing Church Assessment for ECO-Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians
• Mission Gap Assessment Lite for World Vision & Healthy Growing Leaders
• Mission Gap Assessment (MGA) for World Vision & Healthy Growing Leaders
• Financial Health Assessment for Indiana Ministries & Healthy Growing Leaders

Part 2 of the interview is especially interesting when the discussion turns toward the most fruitful decades in the life of a leader. You may be surprised to learn how many of Paul's disciples mentioned in the New Testament, or the bulk of his epistles, are the fruit of the last ten years of his ministry. I've known Greg for several years. I've benefited from several of the tools he created. But this interview is the most personally fulfilling time I've spent with him. His heart and his instruction will bless you - I promise!

For more from Greg, you can visit https://truewiring.com or https://healthygrowingleaders.com

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My friend Randall Ishida recently discovered cancer, pretty much everywhere in his body.

Doctors had misdiagnosed it but now determine that it is terminal. New medicines promise an indeterminate time span which is good news compared to the initial five-week prognosis.

Randy has faith. Not to live forever, but feels he's been given a gift of faith to prevail until the end. His big priority is readying leadership in two current microchurches to carry on after he moves to heaven.

This man is a catalyzer. He's helped others launch two microchurches in Russia and a third in Japan besides four in Honolulu. Each is different. Each situation is unique. On the same afternoon that Randy convinced the leader, Dima, to launch Dima's neighbors asked him to teach them about "Issa." These people are Jewish immigrants who grew up surrounded by Islamic culture in Turkey. Another is in Sochi, the region Russia stole from Ukraine. The Japanese leader is a businesswoman. Honolulu groups are mostly people recently released from prison. Some are in recovery from drug addiction.

The overriding nature of these two podcasts is that of faith coupled with a determination to see the gospel spread through disciples who make disciples. You will find this discussion heart-rending at times, but mostly uplifting and challenging. You'll come away counting your own days more carefully as you hope to make the most of your allotted time.

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My friend Randall Ishida recently discovered cancer, pretty much everywhere in his body.

Doctors had misdiagnosed it but now determine that it is terminal. New medicines promise an indeterminate time span which is good news compared to the initial five-week prognosis.

Randy has faith. Not to live forever, but feels he's been given a gift of faith to prevail until the end. His big priority is readying leadership in two current microchurches to carry on after he moves to heaven.

This man is a catalyzer. He's helped others launch two microchurches in Russia and a third in Japan besides four in Honolulu. Each is different. Each situation is unique. On the same afternoon that Randy convinced the leader, Dima, to launch Dima's neighbors asked him to teach them about "Issa." These people are

Jewish immigrants who grew up surrounded by Islamic culture in Turkey. Another is in Sochi, the region Russia stole from Ukraine. The Japanese leader is a

businesswoman. Honolulu groups are mostly people recently released from prison. Some are in recovery from drug addiction.

The overriding nature of these two podcasts is that of faith coupled with a determination to see the gospel spread through disciples who make disciples. You will find this discussion heart-rending at times, but mostly uplifting and challenging. You'll come away counting your own days more carefully as you hope to make the most of your allotted time.

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My friend Randall Ishida recently discovered cancer, pretty much everywhere in his body.

Doctors had misdiagnosed it but now determine that it is terminal. New medicines promise an indeterminate time span which is good news compared to the initial five-week prognosis.

Randy has faith. Not to live forever, but feels he's been given a gift of faith to prevail until the end. His big priority is readying leadership in two current microchurches to carry on after he moves to heaven.

This man is a catalyzer. He's helped others launch two microchurches in Russia and a third in Japan besides four in Honolulu. Each is different. Each situation is unique. On the same afternoon that Randy convinced the leader, Dima, to launch Dima's neighbors asked him to teach them about "Issa." These people are Jewish immigrants who grew up surrounded by Islamic culture in Turkey. Another is in Sochi, the region Russia stole from Ukraine. The Japanese leader is a businesswoman. Honolulu groups are mostly people recently released from prison. Some are in recovery from drug addiction.

The overriding nature of these two podcasts is that of faith coupled with a determination to see the gospel spread through disciples who make disciples. You will find this discussion heart-rending at times, but mostly uplifting and challenging. You'll come away counting your own days more carefully as you hope to make the most of your allotted time.

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Lee Schnabel is old. Not as old as me, but getting there.

Old men, grey hair and wisdom go together if you believe the Proverbs. Lee is tearing it up, training leaders in Paraguay, Bolivia, Ecuador

and Nicaragua. Two nations dominated by left-wing dictators and two trapped in poverty.

The key to Lee's success in these and his history in other Latin American nations is found in ancient history.

He, long ago, rejected the Catholic/Protestant idea that data dumping scripture made effective Christ-followers. His approach is to disciple

leaders in the stuff they'll be doing from one week to the next. It can be dangerous to oversimplify anything, but he says "If we can't do it with

the Bible alone, something's wrong."

The interview touches on why most lower-income Americans are as locked out of a theological education as people living in the "green-hell" jungles of Bolivia. Worse, we're preventing many potential leaders from ministering to their own people while spending ever-more

dollars sending poorly acculturated missionaries.

This is no lesson on foreign missions, but a primer for reaching people two blocks from your church location.

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This is the first installment of 15 sessions dealing with Doing Church In a Post-Christian Environment.

You can discover more about the Coaching with Ralph Moore options at https://www.ralphmoore.net/coaching.

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So, what would you do if you were stuck with a church more than a 100-years-old?

Joel answers that question and more. He touches on the secrets of failure that defeat many while lighting a path toward victory, spiritual and otherwise.

He describes the frustrations of leading a church deeply rooted in its past and insulated against the future. He describes an incredibly clear avenue to connecting with a broken and mostly overlooked community. Finally, he can tell you why hope, itself, is a strong protest against much of what is wrong in this world.

I usually have more to write about a podcast--in this case, it was either write three pages or a few sentences. I chose the short version.

This one is a homerun! Don't miss it.

For more go to https://www.hopeisprotest.com or https://www.thegospeltab.org you'll be glad you did!

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Matthew Anderson broke the mold.

In part 2 of this interview he gets into the nuts and bolts of life as a bivocational (web design) pastoral ministry. He talks about how it works. Why he partners with others in leadership.

The growth from a shared meal into a fledgling movement includes a lot of change. The kind of change facing lots of pastors in this post-Christian era.

If you're struggling to make sense of the spiritual climate in your city you will take encouragement and wisdom from this interview.

You can connect with Matthew at plantutah.com.

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Matthew Anderson broke the mold.

Coming to Christ in his early twenties he was soon drafted as a youth pastor. Searching for direction, he turned away from the books that well-meaning friends showered onto him.

Matthew asked, "What would Jesus do if he were a youth pastor?" And he found the answer to that question in the gospels and Acts. If Jesus were a youth pastor he would make disciples who make disciples. This idea was rejected by key elders in that church, though they've since done an about-face.

Planting a business, he was self-sustaining while pastoring a bunch of kids. God interrupted that by calling him into paid ministry in a small rural church in the South. That too came to an end as a result of teaching Matthew 9 where Jesus asks us to pray for labor. In the teaching, he challenged his people to prayer-walk a locale, even if it meant traveling a significant distance. Afterward, he began to feel that God was calling him away from that church but to where he had no idea. His wife, Chandra, was getting the same signals.

They spent a year in prayer during which they grew aware of the myriad unreached people groups in the United States. Eventually, they listed four groups in four locations where they might be useful. Matthew decided to take his own advice about traveling to a location to prayer-walk it. He chose the least appealing of the four which was Utah with its Mormon population.

The flight included a "chance" meeting with a guy from North Carolina whose wife grew up in Utah. These people had prayed daily, for several years, that Jesus would send missionaries to Utah. They went nuts over meeting Matthew.

The story gets more exciting than this, including his intentional bivocational role and how another chance meeting morphed into a church that has blossomed into a small movement of churches in a population where less than .5 percent are evangelical Christians.

If you're interested in microchurch or making disciples you will find this interview exciting, frustrating and fulfilling all at once.

You can connect with Matthew at plantutah.com.

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What does John Harris know that you don’t?

He’s grown a church from 2 people to 400 during Covid and on Facebook. But that’s not the most crucial part of this interview. Post-Church Christfollowers and “multimodal” church are.

John left a career as a military chaplain to join the staff in a large California church. After more than a decade, he began noticing that most church dropouts come from among the 20 percent of super-committed Christ-followers. The doers and givers are leaving churches in significant numbers.

So, in 2019 he departed his job as an executive pastor to launch a coaching ministry designed to help pastors keep their most influential members.

Then Covid struck!

Forced to move his business online, he never missed a beat. The coaching platform has grown in size and productivity but still left something to be explored.

Seeking to understand better why key people leave the church, he decided to start an “unchurch” to reach them. He doesn’t call it that. I do. It presents as an “online Christian community.” Intent on avoiding the word, church, he began by reaching people who feel they just escaped one.

Then there is the evangelism element. As people get excited about personal growth around the father-love of God, they talk about it. Evangelism happens without prodding.

The story goes on. So you need to listen to it if you want to understand “multimodal church” or why I found myself coaching a church growth coach.

You can learn about the coaching business at https://www.jharrischurchconsulting.com/ to check on the unchurch, you’ll need to take notes as he explains the path to observe what he’s doing in part 2 of this fascinating interview.

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