What story is your church or life telling? Story is the thread that knit the entire history of the world together. Peter McGowan has dedicated his life to helping people tell their own stories in order to ultimately tell the greatest story of Jesus. To learn more about the podcast or access the show notes, visit www.redletterpodcast.com. 

Season 1 of The Red Letter Disciple Podcast could not have been possible without our friends from The Giving Church. Helping more than a thousand churches raise more than a billion dollars for kingdom dreams to come to fruition, do not let financial lids limit what God can do through your church or ministry. Go on over to www.thegivingchurch.com/red and download a FREE PDF for how to grow your church’s giving! 

Resources mentioned in the episode: 

Aimee Semple McPherson

Harry Potter author reveals books' Christian allegory

Mariner’s Chapel

Most pastors cannot produce more than 35 good sermons in a year (and only about one-quarter of those will be really good.)

Plain Joe

Storyland Studios

Steamboat Willie

YouVersion Bible

Key insights from the episode: 

The church has forgotten to tell its story. - Peter McGowan

Story is not just oral or written tradition, it’s a broader vocabulary of design and interaction. - Peter McGowan

The Basic Idea: storytelling needs to be 1) emotional storytelling, 2) special storytelling, and 3) interactive storytelling. - Peter McGowan

Story can connect executive leadership with lower IT managers so that their visions are lined up. - Peter McGowan

The suspension of disbelief is what made Jesus a powerful storyteller. - Peter McGowan

Story is not some new marketing buzzword we just came up with; throughout human history, it’s been led by the storytellers. - Peter McGowan

The creator of the universe comes to this earth, he could have written the whole new testament, and the only thing he wrote down was something temporary in the dirt. - Peter McGowan

Steve Jobs invented the iPhone with a storyline of being able to do all of it without a keyboard. - Peter McGowan

Elon Musk is a modern-day storyteller the church should be listening to right now. - Peter McGowan

I don’t want to go back to the way we did things pre-Covid. - Zach Zehnder

The church is the only organization that does a new content service every week but it is a hamster wheel that burns them out. - Peter McGowan 

Our ability to tolerate change and progress is what’s going to allow us to adapt. - Peter McGowan

So many churches think stewardship is saving everything they have and making every dollar stretch. We’re called to take risks and have that return on investment. - Peter McGowan

Peter’s Challenge of the Week: Ask a family or close friend a story or memory they have about the two of you. Why is that their favorite memory?

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Church planting is the future of Christianity. This is why Dave Ferguson is so passionate about reaching his goal of seeing 16% of churches in America be either a reproducing or a multiplying a church. Dave also helps us see as individuals how we can love our neighbors well. To learn more about the podcast or access the show notes, visit www.redletterpodcast.com. 

Season 1 of The Red Letter Disciple Podcast could not have been possible without our friends from The Giving Church. Did you know 45% of those that give to church give $200 or less in a year? The potential to increase giving is certainly in your church and The Giving Church can help you unleash greater generosity. Go on over to www.thegivingchurch.com/red and download a FREE PDF for how to grow your church’s giving!

Resources mentioned in the episode: 

Dave Ferguson website

Community Christian Church

New Thing

Exponential Conference

Pete Craig Alpha Craig course

Bless Book by Dave Ferguson

Key insights from the episode: 

Exponential Conference’s mission is to get 16% of the churches in North America to be level 4 (a planted church) or level 5 (reproducing churches.

Current Landscape of American churches:

• 35% declining
• 35% plateau
• 30% growing

The five different levels of church growth: 1) a church in decline, 2) a plateau 3) growing 4) reproducing church planting 5) multiplying: church multiplying itself. Usually, people only think of the first three levels of growth, but the goal ought to be level 4 and level 5. - Dave Ferguson

In order to get to level 4 or 5, you have to reproduce micro before macro. Make disciples inside the church before you can recruit disciples outside of the church. - Dave Ferguson

Overseas churches are rapidly reproducing disciples. Part of the reason we don’t see that same growth in the United States is that we can’t figure out how to multiply disciples. - Dave Ferguson

India and Africa are growing the fastest because they are planting the gospel and making disciples, not worrying about the logistics of the church. There it is less about the production and more about the relationship. - Dave Ferguson

When Dave gets it right, the practice he does to stay focused is his RPMs through Journaling: Read, Prayer, and Meditation.

Prayer doesn’t always need to start with talking, but with silence and meditation. Create space for the Holy Spirit to move. - Dave Ferguson

The 5 steps on how to love your neighbor (BLESS)

-   Begin with Prayer

-   Listen

-   Eat

-   Serve

-   Story

Dave’s Challenge of the Week: Have an “I See In You (ICNU)” conversation with someone. Encourage someone close to you and speak a blessing over them.

(Example: I see in you, Chris, a future on a video in Exponential Conference.)

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On April 15th of 2013, Rebekah Gregory was attending the Boston Marathon. She and her son were three feet away when the bomb went off, and miraculously, God protected them both. Today she shares what she’s learned from this tragedy and how it’s forever changed her life. To learn more about the podcast or access the show notes, visit www.redletterpodcast.com.

Did you know that a Boeing 747 is made up of over 6 million parts?! Even if we had all the parts, none of us would know how to put everything together. Only the experts would know-how. Speaking of experts, our friends at The Giving Church have helped more than a thousand churches raise more than a billion dollars for kingdom dreams to come to fruition. If you need help with anything financially, as small as coaching or consulting or as big as a capital campaign, let these experts help you put your kingdom vision together. Go on over to www.thegivingchurch.com/red and download a FREE PDF for how to grow your church’s giving!

Resources mentioned in the episode: 

Rebekah’s Angels

Rebekah’s instagram

Rebekah’s TikTok

Here’s a great TikTok to introduce you to Rebakah’s sense of humor. 

Here’s another hilarious TikTok

Key insights from the episode: 

I believe it’s a privilege to struggle. - Rebekah Gregory

The emotional trauma had almost more of an impact than the physical trauma on me and my son. - Rebekah Gregory

There are very limited resources available to help kids work through PTSD. - Rebekah Gregory

It’s often where we’re most broken that our purpose is revealed. - Zach Zehnder

We’ve helped over 250 families receive therapy treatment for their trauma. - Rebekah Gregory

God makes good things happen out of the bad. - One of Chris’ mentors

Forgiveness isn’t for the other person. It’s for you. - Rebekah Gregory

I wanted him to look at me. I wanted him to know that he didn’t defeat me. - Rebekah Gregory 

I got to stand in front of the biggest enemy of my life and tell him he didn’t win. - Rebekah Gregory

Throw your expectations for your life out the window and appreciate what it is right now. - Rebekah Gregory

Life is beautiful, and I’m very blessed. - Rebekah Gregory, amputee and survivor of the Boston Bombing.

Rebekah’s Challenge of the Week: Throw the expectations you have of your life out the window. Appreciate what you have right now. So, count your blessings, not your problems. 

Lead yourself (and your church) to find freedom in forgiveness.

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So many people start reading the Bible, get discouraged, and quit by Leviticus. Why does this happen? Today, Zach Windahl talks about the first time he understood the Bible, reconstructing his faith, and why he wrote The Bible Study. To learn more about the podcast or access the show notes, visit www.redletterpodcast.com.

Season 1 of The Red Letter Disciple Podcast could not have been possible without our friends from The Giving Church. Helping more than a thousand churches raise more than a billion dollars for kingdom dreams to come to fruition, do not let financial lids limit what God can do through your church or ministry. Go on over to www.thegivingchurch.com/red and download a FREE PDF for how to grow your church’s giving!

The Brand Sunday

The Bible Study by Zach Windahl

B90X 90-Day Bible Reading Plan

Zach Windahl on TikTok

Zach Windahl on Instagram

The Brand Sunday on Instagram

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001: Carey Nieuwhof on Leadership vs. Discipleship, Living at Your Best, and What He Really Thinks About People With Traeger Grills.

Leadership and discipleship often look like two very different things. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Today, CEO, leadership expert, and founding pastor Carey Nieuwhof joins us for the first episode of the Red Letter Disciple Podcast. To learn more about the podcast or access the show notes, visit www.redletterpodcast.com.

Season 1 of The Red Letter Disciple Podcast could not have been possible without our friends from The Giving Church. Did you know 45% of those that give to church give $200 or less in a year? The potential to increase giving is certainly in your church and The Giving Church can help you unleash greater generosity. Go on over to www.thegivingchurch.com/red and download a FREE PDF for how to grow your church’s giving!

Resources mentioned in the episode: 

https://careynieuwhof.com/

At Your Best by Carey Nieuwhof

Red Letter Challenge 40-Day Discipleship Challenge

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

The Art of Leadership Academy

At Your Best Course

Episode 1 of the Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast with Andy Stanley.

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Join your hosts Zach Zehnder and Chris Johnson for the 1st season of the Red Letter Disciple Podcast as they challenge you to become a greater disciple of Jesus.

The challenge begins on May 17th 2022!

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