Guerrilla Discipleship with Kevin Baker and Tim Parker

Jesus said you need to be born again and we all need to renew our thinking. We hope to allow God to change our thinking so we can see the world and our tasks as He sees them. Conforming our thoughts to God's is not easy but is necessary to help multiply our disciple-making efforts. Today, Kevin Baker and Tim Parker discuss the paradigm shifts from self-reliant to spirit-dependent and from comp...

Do you see fruit in your disciple-making efforts? If not, maybe now is a good time to re-examine how you think about disciple-making and make necessary paradigm shifts. Kevin Baker and Tim Parker discuss today two important shifts successful disciple-makers must make in their thinking to conform to Jesus disciple-making model in scripture. Tune in to hear about the shift from Outsiders to Cultural...

Effective disciple-makers have to go through a paradigm shift away from how they may have been taught in church to focus how Jesus made disciples. Kevin Baker and Tim Parker unpack two more paradigm shifts necessary for disciple-makers in today's episode. They help us all shift from individuals to group discipleship and from ministry professionals to every believer being disciple-makers.

Effective disciple-makers have to go through a paradigm shift away from how they may have been taught in church to focus how Jesus made disciples. Kevin Baker and Tim Parker unpack two more paradigm shifts necessary for disciple-makers in today's episode. They help us all shift from knowledge to obedience and from telling to discovery.

It is time for the church and followers of Jesus to change. Each of us and our congregations need to take steps to re-align ourselves with our God given mission to multiply disciples. This is going to take some paradigm shifts in our thinking and actions. Kevin Baker and Tim Parker continue the series unpacking shifts from leader to coach and from informing to equipping in today's episode.

Disciple-makers operate under different paradigms from the normal western church. Today we look at two new paradigm shifts that are necessary for anyone wanting to be a disciple-maker as we start 2024. Kevin Baker and Tim Parker will discuss shifting from attractional to missional as a churchbody and from a consumer to catalyst as individuals.

As we start 2024, disciple-makers need to make paradigm shifts in their thinking to better multiply their efforts to reach people far from God this year. Kevin Baker and Tim Parker look at two shifts today, switching our focus from our own church to God's Kingdom and from accumulating more people in our churches to equipping and deploying disciple-makers into the world.

Happy New Year! As we start 2024, it is a great time to examine if we are seeing fruit from our disciple-making efforts. Starting in this episode, Kevin Baker and Tim Parker, take a look at what paradigm shifts are necessary for disciple-making. It is their hope that with changes to our thinking and actions we better partner with God as He moves in our neighborhoods and communities this year. Toda...

As we finish out 2023, Kevin and Tim hope to encourage you to continue to get ready for all God has for you in 2024. In this final episode of the year, our hosts encourage you to prepare to focus more on God's Word in the new year. Get into a daily habit of spending time reading your bible. Check out oakdale.church/bible for a chapter a day, 5 days a week, reading plan that will point to God&#...

Christmas provides a unique opportunity as we gather with friends and family to intentionally be a witness for Jesus. Most people are more open to spiritual conversations and it is easier to organically be spiritually obvious this season. Kevin and Tim provide practical insight on how each of us can do something different this year to make a Kingdom impact.

Only 5% of Christians have led someone else to Christ. Kevin Baker and Tim Parker want to encourage each of us to do more in 2024. Today, they will look at how Serving in Love is a wonderful way to build relationships and help point people to God. This continues the More in 2024 series where we are learning how to BLESS people far from God. BLESSBegin with PrayerListen with CareEat TogetherServe i...

Kevin Baker and Tim Parker continue the conversation started two weeks with the call to action to all of us to do more in 2024 by taking steps to be more intentional in leading people far from God to Him this next year. They will be talking through the disciple-making acronym BLESS in the next few episodes as we end out the year. Today, they will focus on Eating Together as a big way to make a dis...

Kevin Baker and Tim Parker continue the conversation started last week with the call to action to all of us to do more in 2024 by taking steps to be more intentional in leading people far from God to Him this next year. They will be talking through the disciple-making acronym BLESS in the next few episodes as we end out the year. Today, they will focus on Listening with care as a big way to make a...

Kevin Baker and Tim Parker invite each of us to think about 2024 and begin praying for God to do More. Our hosts challenge us to be part of the 5% of of Christians who have discipled someone to Christ and pray that God will use you to grow His kingdom next year. Tune in for practical ways to pray and set goals now for the new year. Suggested App : Streets of Prayer (on Google Play or App Store) -...

Is the power of the Holy Spirit, seen in the book of Acts, still active in the world today? Tune in to Guerrilla Discipleship today to continue the interview by Oakdale Church staff member Anne Jordan with Jeffrien Joel. Jeffrien is a pastor in southern India and he will share about how he and his family became believers in miraculous ways. The power of Acts is alive in the world in surprising way...

Is the power of the Holy Spirit, seen in the book of Acts, still active in the world today? Tune in to Guerrilla Discipleship today to hear from Jeffrien Joel, who is a pastor in southern India, share how his Hindu family came to Christ. The power of Acts is alive in the world in surprising ways you have to listen to believe. This episode is an interview by Oakdale Church staff member Anne Jordan...

The disciple-making life is not the easiest. Today, Kevin Baker and Tim Parker talk about why disciple-making is so difficult and offer encouragement for each of us to keep going forward in obedience.

Disciple-Making is helping other people who are far from God to get closer to God. Kevin Baker encourages you today about wonderful unintended consequences of disciple-making . Someone is always listening and someone is always watching. Your disciple-making efforts are multiplied beyond what you may ever know through the power of the Holy Spirit. Keep doing the great work of obedience and faith!

Kevin Baker and Tim Parker discuss how they partnered with the disciple-making network, DC Underground, in a push week in Montgomery County, MD in September. They share stories about how God used them, and others, to make an impact for the Kingdom through prayer walking, outdoor worship and disciple-making trainings. DC Underground is a network of churches in Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C....

Being a Disciple-Maker takes boldness and faith and to be successful we need to look at what is our motivation to carry out this calling. Today, Kevin Baker and Tim Parker discuss their own personal motivation for seeking to share the Good News and bring people to Christ and invite each of us to figure out what is our driving factor as an everyday disciple-maker.

Know anyone that just gets on your nerves? That you cannot connect with or just drains your energy? Tune in today as Pastor Tim Parker discusses how we can all be spiritually obvious with the difficult people in our lives. People who are difficult are difficult for a reason or the season. Don’t run away from these people in your life. It may not be your job to disciple them for years but you can p...

Pastor Kevin Baker is the senior pastor of Oakdale Church a 200+ year old legacy church with Wesleyan roots. Continuing the conversation from last week, Kevin Baker talks about the radical and amazing transformation God is doing to change the legacy church into a disciple-making community. He offers real life stories and tips for anyone leading a church on how you can take steps to align your cong...

Pastor Kevin Baker is the senior pastor of Oakdale Church a 200+ year old legacy church with Wesleyan roots. In this episode, and continued next week, Kevin Baker talks about the radical and amazing transformation God is doing to change the legacy church into a disciple-making community. He offers real life stories and tips for anyone leading a church on how you can take steps to align your congre...

Kevin Baker and Tim Parker wrap up the Relational Evangelism series by discussing how we should live out disciple-making following the Holy Spirit in this episode. They look specifically about what our lives should look like when we live in concert with the Spirit. Kevin and Tim give examples from their own lives on what a prompting from the Spirit felt like so that you can better discern the Spir...

Relational Evangelism is just sharing in an organic relational way with people we already interact with, about God. Today Pastor Kevin Baker and Tim Parker will talk about how God calls us to be bold in our disciple-making . We are presented with opportunities every day to make an impact for the Kingdom but often we do not act because we lack the boldness. Boldness means you are sticking your neck...