Conversations as you Go

We continue our conversation with Scott and hear him share about the kingdom of God and our participation in it as we simplify our walk with God in complex cities. What is the kingdom? “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!” (Mark 1:15). Scott begins by giving us an overview of the kingdom of God from a biblical perspective. Drawing from...

We start a new series talking to disciple making leader and catalyst, Scott Crawley, as he shares on reaching cities.   Scott’s story Scott first shares a little bit of his story including how, as a broken young adult, he encountered Jesus in a vision which radically transformed his life. He then moved to Asia and wrestled with the question, ‘what is the Gospel?’ in a very differen...

In this episode, we have a conversation with South Asian Praxeis catalyst, Rodger, exploring his story and hearing about what God is doing among the largest number of unreached people groups in the world. Rodger is engaged in church planting and community transformation efforts not only in his home state but also across other states and beyond. Holistic Approach Rodger’s approach involves a holist...

In this third podcast with Floyd, we continue to be challenged to “finish well”. Floyd speaks this challenge to us from a well of experience and heart. Floyd’s love for Jesus and his determination to be passionate to the end of his days speaks deeply to our hearts calling us to walk away from mediocrity and embrace our call, our God-given gifts and the opportunity to impact and influence many arou...

Floyd McClung continues to share with us and in this episode he talks about what the Spirit is doing across the world and how we can respond by laying down our lives for Jesus. Following Jesus means giving up our rights “When we die, we know we can take our heart to heaven if we follow and love Jesus…But we can take one more thing. We can take other people with us to heaven too.” ‘For what is our...

Over the next three podcasts we will be delving back into the archives as we hear again from Floyd McClung who shared at Crossway Baptist Church on the motivation of our hearts as disciple makers.  In this first episode, Floyd focuses in on the Father heart of God. How we are to view people. This helps us view movement as not primarily a methodology but something of God’s driving heartbeat for all...

In this episode we hear from movement practitioner Steve Addison who has just returned from traveling overseas which included a book tour of his latest book, ‘ Acts and the Movement of God ’.  Emptying the tool bag Steve bravely shares with us how God wanted him to recently completely empty his ministry ‘tool bag’ and then wait on God’s lead to know what to put back in. Steve’s podcast , turn...

We join Dave as he catches up with Brian and Klaus around a campfire to the west of Canberra moments after a time of praying over the city together. Embracing DMM from the heart Brian shares a little of his journey towards DMM from being a legacy church leader in the sophisticated city of Canberra. “We previously never thought about multiplying evangelism. But then we learnt that to help somebody...

We continue hearing from Jim Britts (author of the book, 21 Days to Becoming a Disciple Maker ) sharing with us in this last (of three) podcast on the habits of disciple making.  Obedience – Jesus’ love language Jim shares how there is a big difference between learning something and obeying something. We reproduce who we are, not what we tell people to do. Proving our love for Jesus ha...

We continue our conversation with movement catalyst Jim Britts (who has just released a new book, 21 Days to Becoming a Disciple Maker ). Jim starts with some movement stories from the last few years that have come from him stepping into DMM. He shares his personal shifts to helping people come to Jesus through a disciple making process instead of starting with the sinners prayer. We hear of the n...

This episode, we begin our conversations with movement catalyst Jim Britts who has just released a new book, 21 Days to Becoming a Disciple Maker .  Jim’s story In 2018, after serving as a pastor for 20 years, Jim had a middle-of-the-night encounter with God who said,  “Jim, I love the story of your church but you’ve missed the whole point. I called you to make disciples that make disciples a...

We hear from Mike Hey again who is introduced to us by one of our leaders Jerry, who along with his wife Katie and their family, are pioneering DMM in South Australia. They are connecting with local leaders like Mike from OM who shares with us what disciple making looks like for him in Adelaide. Sailing boats blown by the wind of the Spirit   Mike starts by encouraging us with a picture: We a...

In this episode, we continue on from last week’s conversation with Dave Coles, hearing about his exciting new book release, ‘ Cabbages in the Desert ’, the story of Aila Tasse. A story of a young Muslim being called by Jesus to see movements birthed across East Africa. Today we continue to draw out from Dave the DMM principles of how we are going to see movements in the West.  Cabbages in the Dese...

In this episode we are talking to Dave Coles, hearing about his exciting new book release, ‘ Cabbages in the Desert : How God transformed a devout Muslim and Catalyzed Disciple Making Movements among Unreached Peoples’. This is the story of Aila Tasse from East Africa who we have been hearing from in recent podcasts (see Aila’s list of podcasts at the bottom of these show notes). Cabba...

In this episode we conclude our series from our Launch 24 program with an awesome word from Pastor Graham Wilson, one of our Praxeis board members. Graham speaks into our sense of ‘ordinariness’ and feelings of disqualification compared to the greatness of Jesus and his great commission.  “When we look back on our lives, God has been relentless about his purposes being worked out in ou...

We continue our series from the Launch program with Dave sharing this episode on the power of prayer in seeing breakthrough for our cities. Be inspired to prioritise prayer afresh as Dave calls us to be part of the ‘Pray for 8’ vision God has for our cities as we gather this Pentecost weekend (17-19 May).  Building an alter of prayer Drawing from his past frustrations and experience, Dave paints t...

As we listen to episodes from our Launch gathering in Melbourne, we continue the second of a two podcast series with Roger, Praxeis New Zealand leader as he shares on building teams in the West.  Roger continues sharing stories of how he has sought to see teams birthed. Principles of forming team We’re to expect opposition when we start teams. How we operate as a team is what we’ll reproduce....

Join us as we continue this series of episodes from our Launch event in Melbourne. Hear Roger, Praxeis New Zealand leader in this first of two podcasts sharing his thoughts on building teams in the West.  Building teams is crucial. If we cannot build teams, we won’t see movement. Roger will reflect over these next two podcasts about the positive experiences he has had as well as the disappoin...

In this episode, we will hear from Brian and Klaus from when they shared at our February Launch gathering. Brian begins by sharing the current picture in Canberra. It feels bleak as they look at the numbers of people attending church. It is an even more despairing picture when they look at the number of people actively engaging almost lost people as disciple-makers.  But God has given them a...

We catch up with Brian and Klaus from Grace Church Canberra at our Launch gathering in Melbourne to hear their journey of the paradigm shifts that they and their local church has gone through as they completely embrace DMM.   View this interview as a video here . These guys represent the Crosslink network of more than 160 churches around Australia and have a vision as a local church of seeing...

We reconnect with Mike Hey at our ‘Launch 24’ gathering in Melbourne. In this episode Mike shares with us some of his history, serving with OM and highlights some of the principles of seeing DMM catalysed in a multicultural city like Adelaide. To see this podcast as a video, click here Seeing DMM in Adelaide Mike has a vision for Adelaide as a house of prayer for all nations. He shares...

Today we hear from ‘Simon’, a movement catalyst. You’ll be moved to pray and respond afresh to the Great Commission as Simon shares how he is seeing movement amongst severe persecution. After sharing how he got caught up in what he calls a great commission ministry, Simon shares his three main practices:  Multiply disciples  Multiply leaders  Multiply churches  Thes...

This is our last episode with Stuart on his latest book, Prayer Power . Stuart encourages us to desperately seek to engage in persistent prayer and multiplying disciples.  “God doesn’t expect the impossible from us but for us to expect the impossible from him. He wants us to see the face of the nation in the next disciple we minister to.” 

In this, our second last episode with Stuart, he talks about the vital importance of raising prayer support. This is for every single one of us who are making disciples (whether we are so called ‘full-time’ or ‘bi-vocational’).  Stuart refers to forming three important prayer groups:  A core group of personal prayer intercessors who pray regularly for you A wider group of committed inter...

In our fourth episode with Stuart, we continue exploring his book Prayer Power .  But what about when it feels like God doesn’t answer our prayers?  Stuart shares a personal story of how he persevered in prayer for his family to come to faith. We hear how God wants us to have his best in his grace and timing, not always what and when we want it.  We can keep our faith alive by simply finding...