The Daily Discipleship Podcast

If you seek to live for Christ, you will be misunderstood.  If you want to lead like Jesus, you will be misunderstood.  Let's learn to live and lead like Jesus. 

Leading in the ways of Jesus may sometimes (maybe even oftentimes) be misunderstood by those around us.  Jesus doesn't exactly do things the way the world does.  How does that impact the way we Live and Lead?

In this episode, we will look at the various characters of Christmas from those first Christmases around the time of the birth of Christ.  We will conclude that the Gospel is for All People. 

God orchestrates details to fulfill HIS plans, and a group of shepherds were the beneficiaries of God's orchestration.  On one Holy Night, everything for them would change.  Luke 2

Jesus' approach at Life and Leadership was quite different than the world's expectations, some might even say that it was upside down.

Immediately after appointing the 12, Jesus establishes some expectations for His leaders that are quite unlike what we may read in a modern Leadership Profile.

Jesus has now moved to a place in His ministry where He knows He needs to establish other leaders if His ministry will result in a movement. How does He select?

Jesus' unfolded His strategy in 5 distinct, yet overlapping phases.  He spent about 15 months in this phase of developing leaders who will multiply His movement ultimately around the world. Today's broadcast paints the background for what will happen next.

Jesus had such a relationship with sinful people that people began calling Him a friend of sinners.  Do we love people so much that people would also call us a friend of sinners?

Along the way, I have noted that, sometimes, the Lord still does miraculous works to draw people to Himself, like He did with the leper or the man on the mat. Today, we will look at a contemporary story where He worked in a similar way. Be inspired by His works. Ask Him to use you to reach someone today.

After healing the undesirable, news about Jesus spread and people came from all over to hear him, especially the religious leaders.  The news was creating a movement.  How can we be part of creating a movement today?  How can we bring to Jesus?

Jesus ministered to business people, common people, religious people, irreligious people, marketplace people, and today, we see Him model ministry among the undesirables. 

Jesus had demonstrated evangelism in the synagogue.  He had demonstrated home-based evangelism.  Today, he demonstrates open- air evangelism in the Market.  What lessons does He have in store?

If we want to stay clear on the mission and know the Father's will, a life of ongoing prayer is critical.

Last week we considered Jesus' outreach in a religious setting, now we turn our attention to the model of home outreach., which could even include hospitals in our day. 

There is often more to sharing the Gospel than just the Truths of the Gospel.  The Gospel comes to bear on life in powerful ways - ways like we looked at yesterday.  Today, we go further into Jesus' model.

In our Western world, we often provide teaching to people, but we don't necessarily truly train people, especially when it comes to Great Commission evangelism and disciplemaking.  Jesus had a different approach.  Let's learn what He did.

Jesus called those initial disciples to leave behind their old lives and follow Him to bring men into the Kingdom.  When did He do this?  What may this mean to us?

As Jesus is confronted by the religious leaders in John 5, He provides 5 sources that testify to His identity.  We can be confident in who Jesus is - He IS the Messiah.  We can also be confident to share a witness about Him as the Holy Spirit enables us. 

Jesus was intentional in what He did.  Each encounter was a divine encounter.  We can learn to approach life the same way, looking for the divine encounters the Father puts before us each and every day.

Jesus was shut-down in Nazareth, so He moved to a more populace area.  John the Baptist has been arrested, and Jesus takes up John's message.  What was that message?  What lessons can we learn for our own evangelism and disciplemaking?

Evangelism and Discipleship Inspiration with Jim Halstead of Go &Tell Ministries.

Today we will discuss how Jesus was now beginning to transition from laying those early foundations to more intentional training which included expansion of the ministry. 

In this final report of my time in India, I share how their love and faith takes action. We consider both Matthew 25 and James 2 in regards to our own love and faith. 

What challenges does Jesus give to us regarding our role as disicplemakers?  How did I see that being fleshed out in India?