The Ralph Moore Podcast

Michael is a rare individual, a seasoned practitioner and a scholar/theologian. Having met Jesus as a high school student, he immediately began evangelizing without much knowledge. However, he hit on all cylinders as friends from Cru discipled him. After serving with Cru in college, he spent years in Russia and Eastern Europe, eventually launching a movement in Romania. In the newly post-communist...

I had the good fortune to meet Ben Sandell on a speaking trip to Finland. We shared a ride back and forth between Helsinki and the location where I spoke. That gave us more than four hours of talk time in the car. A friendship was born. The conference was amazing with 1,500-plus Charismatic Lutherans seated in bleachers in the public space of an indoor shopping mall/sports center. The Finns are ve...

Michael is a rare individual, a seasoned practitioner and a scholar/theologian. Having met Jesus as a high school student, he immediately began evangelizing without much knowledge. However, he hit on all cylinders as friends from Cru discipled him. After serving with Cru in college, he spent years in Russia and Eastern Europe, eventually launching a movement in Romania. In the newly post-communist...

I had the good fortune to meet Ben Sandell on a speaking trip to Finland. We shared a ride back and forth between Helsinki and the location where I spoke. That gave us more than four hours of talk time in the car. A friendship was born. The conference was amazing with 1,500-plus Charismatic Lutherans seated in bleachers in the public space of an indoor shopping mall/sports center. The Finns are ve...

David Householder is a Fulbright Scholar, surfer, and church multiplier. I met him as Director of Alpha for North America.   This interview is most interesting because of the way David has learned to use difficulties to the advantage of the Kingdom. After an initial setback, the church he leads has grown during Covid.   So much of what you and I complain about, David sees as potential as...

David Householder is a Fulbright Scholar, surfer, and church multiplier. I met him as Director of Alpha for North America.   This interview is most interesting because of the way David has learned to use difficulties to the advantage of the Kingdom. After an initial setback, the church he leads has grown during Covid.   So much of what you and I complain about, David sees as potential as...

David Householder is a Fulbright Scholar, surfer, and church multiplier. I met him as Director of Alpha for North America.   This interview is most interesting because of the way David has learned to use difficulties to the advantage of the Kingdom. After an initial setback, the church he leads has grown during Covid.   So much of what you and I complain about, David sees as potential as...

Jim Britts tells an exciting story.   God interrupted his plans to live as a conventional youth pastor till age 80. He's still working with younger people but as a church planter and multiplier. Then he discovered the power of discipling people into Christ which required restructuring the church.   COVID presented new opportunities. The church now functions with two operating systems. On...

Jim Britts tells an exciting story. God interrupted his plans to live as a conventional youth pastor till age 80. He's still working with younger people but as a church planter and multiplier. Then he discovered the power of discipling people into Christ which required restructuring the church. COVID presented new opportunities. The church now functions with two operating systems. One to serve lon...

Growth can hurt as well as help. Join me with Russ Shearer as he tells his story of both lagging finances and leadership base as his church suddenly grew to 150 percent of pre-COVID attendance. This is a crazy good story that reveals the ups and downs of God's blessing. Russ is a seasoned church planter who moved to Peoria, Illinois a few years prior to COVID. The church Russ pastors was given a n...

This is the audio from the first session of "Doing Church in a Post-Christian Era" in the Coaching with Ralph Moore cohorts. Between now and midnight you can join the Premium Cohort for 30% off. You'll get two fresh videos each month along with a 90 minute open mike Zoom chat with Ralph on the third Saturday of each month. You also receive full access to both the church multiplication and microchu...

You may not know Greg by name or reputation but he's already impacted your life.   A seasoned disciplemaker, church planter and holder of a Ph. D. in psychometrics he's crafted assessment tools that most of us have used directly or indirectly. From a DISC test to the Becoming Level 5 tool to a new disciplemaking assessment for NorthPoint Church, Greg has touched us all.   In this intervi...

You may not know Greg by name or reputation but he's already impacted your life. A seasoned disciplemaker, church planter and holder of a Ph. D. in psychometrics he's crafted assessment tools that most of us have used directly or indirectly. From a DISC test to the Becoming Level 5 tool to a new disciplemaking assessment for NorthPoint Church, Greg has touched us all. In this interview, Greg uncov...

My friend Randall Ishida recently discovered cancer, pretty much everywhere in his body. Doctors had misdiagnosed it but now determine that it is terminal. New medicines promise an indeterminate time span which is good news compared to the initial five-week prognosis. Randy has faith. Not to live forever, but feels he's been given a gift of faith to prevail until the end. His big priority is ready...

My friend Randall Ishida recently discovered cancer, pretty much everywhere in his body.   Doctors had misdiagnosed it but now determine that it is terminal. New medicines promise an indeterminate time span which is good news compared to the initial five-week prognosis.   Randy has faith. Not to live forever, but feels he's been given a gift of faith to prevail until the end. His big pri...

My friend Randall Ishida recently discovered cancer, pretty much everywhere in his body. Doctors had misdiagnosed it but now determine that it is terminal. New medicines promise an indeterminate time span which is good news compared to the initial five-week prognosis. Randy has faith. Not to live forever, but feels he's been given a gift of faith to prevail until the end. His big priority is ready...

Lee Schnabel is old. Not as old as me, but getting there.   Old men, grey hair and wisdom go together if you believe the Proverbs. Lee is tearing it up, training leaders in Paraguay, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua. Two nations dominated by left-wing dictators and two trapped in poverty.   The key to Lee's success in these and his history in other Latin American nations is found in ancien...

This is the first installment of 15 sessions dealing with Doing Church In a Post-Christian Environment . You can discover more about the Coaching with Ralph Moore options at https://www.ralphmoore.net/coaching . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So, what would you do if you were stuck with a church more than a 100-years-old? Joel answers that question and more. He touches on the secrets of failure that defeat many while lighting a path toward victory, spiritual and otherwise. He describes the frustrations of leading a church deeply rooted in its past and insulated against the future. He describes an incredibly clear avenue to connecting w...

Matthew Anderson broke the mold. In part 2 of this interview he gets into the nuts and bolts of life as a bivocational (web design) pastoral ministry. He talks about how it works. Why he partners with others in leadership. The growth from a shared meal into a fledgling movement includes a lot of change. The kind of change facing lots of pastors in this post-Christian era. If you're struggling to m...

Matthew Anderson broke the mold. Coming to Christ in his early twenties he was soon drafted as a youth pastor. Searching for direction, he turned away from the books that well-meaning friends showered onto him. Matthew asked, "What would Jesus do if he were a youth pastor?" And he found the answer to that question in the gospels and Acts. If Jesus were a youth pastor he would make disciples who ma...

What does John Harris know that you don’t? He’s grown a church from 2 people to 400 during Covid and on Facebook. But that’s not the most crucial part of this interview. Post-Church Christfollowers and “multimodal” church are. John left a career as a military chaplain to join the staff in a large California church. After more than a decade, he began noticing that most church dropouts come from amo...

What does John Harris know that you don’t? He’s grown a church from 2 people to 400 during Covid and on Facebook. But that’s not the most crucial part of this interview. Post-Church Christfollowers and “multimodal” church are. John left a career as a military chaplain to join the staff in a large California church. After more than a decade, he began noticing that most church dropouts come from amo...

Ron Johnson is a seasoned church planter and multiplier with 44 plants launched since 1985. He's also a good friend and one whom I greatly admire. Mostly for his courage and insight. Struck with confusion when the pandemic first hit, he and his team soon morphed into the microchurch network they had sought prior to the tragedy. The church numbered around 550 in weekend attendance in 2019. Now ther...

Ron Johnson is a seasoned church planter and multiplier with 44 plants launched since 1985. He's also a good friend and one whom I greatly admire. Mostly for his courage and insight. Struck with confusion when the pandemic first hit, he and his team soon morphed into the microchurch network they had sought prior to the tragedy. The church numbered around 550 in weekend attendance in 2019. Now ther...