The CDM Podcast

"We cant function and bear fruit as disciple makers unless we are connected to the vine which is Jesus Christ." - Paul Watson   In today's podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing discuss helping churches bring siloed ministries including Prayer, Discipleship, Evangelism, and Good Works together to create movement in disciple making.   In this week's premium episode , Paul and Rebecca look at working...

"A lot of times we get people who are disciple makers who want to jump right in without any kind of preparation or any concept of becoming the kind of person, a man or woman, that God would intrust with the task of finding a person of peace." - Paul Watson   In this week's podcast, Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing discuss what it takes to be the kind of disciple maker that is ready to connect with a...

"When I became a practitioner, I started doing the things a disciple does to become reproductive, what I found out was this actually helps with every aspect of the church." - Michael Dorsett   In this week's podcast, Paul Watson, Rebecca Ewing and Michael Dorsett look at how to approach pastors about disciple making movements in an effective and encouraging way.   Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks...

"Although we might loose this body, although we may be misunderstood, although we may be mistreated, we understand that we perform for an audience of one. The Creator of all things and the One who loves us each individually" - Paul Watson   In this week's podcast, Paul Watson discusses the reasons we become disciple makers and how important it is that we focus on God being our reason.   Visit www....

In this week's podcast, Rebecca Ewing and Michael Dorset dive deep into the importance of fasting, our new Prayer and Fasting Devotional, and scripture to refer to in your fasting. Michael also shares how his church has made fasting and prayer part of who they are as a church.   Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for the even more great podcast content. For just $5/month, you can have access to our...

“[fasting] should be something you do frequently throughout your life. Not just when we have the January or the one in June or whatever. Your weekly life should be focused around fasting and prayer” - Michael Dorset   In today's free podcast Rebecca Ewing and Michael Dorst discuss the importance of fasting, our new Prayer and Fasting Devotional, and scripture to refer to in your fasting.   In this...

“God has blessed us with tools that would allow us now, just in the palm of our hand, to instantly send messages and to have conversations with people who are thousands of mies away. And we should not take that lightly. We should consider that a gift.” - Rebecca Ewing   In today's podcast Rebecca Ewing shares about praying together using online tools and communities. And how this can remove the ba...

"We can use [prayer] to be a bridge from interceding to action. So our questions can go from how should we be praying for to what do You want us to do." - Rebecca Ewing   In today's podcast Rebecca Ewing discuss praying together with others and explains 4 prayer tools you can use in those times of corporate prayer.   In part 2 , Rebecca shares how adding 10-20 minutes of praying with others into o...

“Your conversations are hanging out in casual and sometimes meaningful, but you just seem to be stuck and not progressing forward into deeper conversations…We get these kinds of questions, why am I stuck or why am I not seeing progress. Well there is a variety fo things it could be.” - Rebecca Ewing   In today's podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing discuss the Conversation Quadrants and technique...

“Faith is obeying God because we believe that His word is true and what He’s told us is right, regardless of whether we see good or bad consequences coming our way” - Paul Watson.   In today's podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing continue a four part series about what they call COVID Culture and in part three they discuss what it takes to learn how to deal with the effects of being knocked down a...

“I think we have been in survival mode. That we’re basically just trying to manage to get through all the things that are exploding around us…and now its lingering” - Rebecca Ewing In today's podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing start a four part series about what they call COVID Culture and in part one they discuss how we can escape the cycle of survival mode.   In part 2 , Paul and Rebecca cont...

"We have to be honest with ourselves…are we actually building up our loves in order to be able to prepare against his attacks.” - Rebecca Ewing   In today's podcast Rebecca Ewing discusses how we can protect our hearts and lives from being vulnerable to enemy attack by pointing out some of the blind spots that we may have and giving practical tips that we can put into place in our personal lives....

In today's podcast Paul Watson looks at the first three things we can do to be more resilient and to not be fragile or lead in fragile ways as disciple makers. In part 2 , Paul share the fourth thing we can do to be more resilient as a disciple maker. Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for part 2 . For just $5/month, you can have access to the premium content of each episode—that's 8 podcasts a mont...

“A mentoring relationship is a deeper kind of relationship that requires an incredible level of trust and it’s an investment of time, energy, love, care and concern beyond what you can give to the masses.” - Paul Watson In today's podcast Paul Watson discusses the difference between training, coaching, and mentoring. And why mentoring takes more time and effort than training or coaching. In part 2...

“Its not about getting there fast…Its about getting there in the first place, cause sometimes we sacrifice getting there just because we want to do more and we want to do it faster” - Paul Watson   In today's podcast Paul Watson shares a wonderful story about how going slower allowed mission workers to build better relationships.   In part 2 , Paul talks about being smart about your inefficiency a...

"Adventures come with adversity. Without adversity you can’t have adventures and with out adversity you won’t make mistakes. Without a willingness to make mistakes, you’ll never step out of the door in the first place…you won’t engage the lost." - Paul Watson   In today's podcast Paul Watson shares about adversity and fear and what it takes to overcome them in your disciple making efforts.    In p...

"Leadership development begins the moment we open the Bible…" - Paul Watson   In today's podcast Paul Watson discusses leadership development in the context of disciple making. And how important it is to build up leaders that can keep the ball rolling even when we are not there to help.   Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for even more great content. For just $5/month, you can have access to the pr...

"I had somebody come into my life; who really made me realize for the first time what God’s Grace really looks like and how that effects my day to day life, instead just being this broad idea I learned in church, and that really transformed the way I saw Christ and my faith" - Michael Garcia   In today's podcast Paul Watson interviews Michael a disciple maker in California. Michael discusses what...

"I've never successfully argued someone into the Kingdom" - Skyler   In today's podcast Ricky Pope talks with Skyler about Discovery Bible Studies and Disciple Making Movements in multiple cultures and countries. Skyler shares how she and her family become involved and some of the differences in disciple making in the US and over seas.   In part 2 , Skyler and Ricky discuss some of the obstacles t...

In today's podcast Ricky Pope talks with Michael Garcia about being an introvert and a disciple maker. Both being introverts gives them a unique perspective on that it's like. Ricky and Michael discuss what it really means to be an introvert and look at what things introverts need to think about when they start on the journey to become disciple makers.   In part 2 , Micheal and Ricky shares how in...

"I was trying to figure out what kind of Bible study to do with these women and my natural thought was there were lots of great women's curriculum I could buy...and the Lord kept impressing on my heart "nope I don't want you to do that, I just want you to read the Bible with these women." - Joleene   In today's podcast Ricky Pope talks with Joleene in Southern California about being a busy mother...

“The process of transitioning to some new ways and some other things resulted in within three months, instead of 13 leaders we had 3."   What does it take to go from the loss of more than half your leaders to 40 miracles every day, 38 water baptisms per day, having 51,000 people have come to Christ and 43,000 baptized? What did it take to get to this miraculous point? We're joined by David Parish...

This week we talk about starting a DBS in a difficult place. A prison. And how God was moving from the very beginning.   "We need to walk in the darkest valleys. We need to bring light in the darkness" - Paul Watson   This is the final in our ongoing series of interviews from Giving Tuesday with Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing.   Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for more great content. For just $5/m...

This week we talk about praying for your city and specifically about prayer walks. What they are and why you should get involved.   "One of the big burdens on my heart is to see believers, including myself, very actively engaging the neighbors that are right around them"   This is part of our ongoing series of interviews from Giving Tuesday with Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing.   Visit  www.patreon....

This week we continue our series of live interviews from Giving Tuesday with Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing. Today we talk to a group of believers working to see movement and transformation in their own cities.   "If we actually develop relationships with them it will give us opportunities to be able to share stories and start Discovery Bible Studies with these people and through that we’ll see, ma...