The Shape of a Circle | Everyday Discipleship

Some people just aren't familiar with prayer at all.  It might feel like community settings would be the last place they'd want to try it, but we can turn things around and make it the first.

We all know prayer is a big part of discipleship; but why then does it feel so awkward and unnatural to start praying within a community of other disciples?  Brian and Cammie tell stories on how they've made a push into prayer in their disciple-making settings.

Hearing from God can be as simple as starting with one word that lasts for one year.  A lot can be built from there.  And your community of disciples will help.

Alright Disciple-Makers, how do you gather a disciples together, and then get them alone into practicing solitude?  Sounds like oil and water doesn't it?  Brian and Cammie get into a simple exercise you can practice with your group, that disciples them into starting solitude as a personal practice from there.

Cammie tells all in what the space of solitude looks like for him.

Brian tells all in what the space of solitude looks like for him.

Solitude sounds like an Introverts' dream and an Extrovert's nightmare!  Not so the case.  Cammie and Brian get into what Extrovert's get out of their "people time" with just Jesus, and what Introverts get to take back to others from that time as well.

When you get a date night with someone you love, you're glad you did, the relationship is better because you did, but the only reason you did is because you carved out time for it to happen.  Solitude with Jesus is the same.  It doesn't just happen.  You don't have to over script a plan.  The heart will move and spontaneity will happen.  But you've got to be intentional about m...

Why get away instead of getting more done?  Why was it that, "Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed," (Luke 5:16).  Came and Brian open a series of episodes on "Solitude," something that goes way beyond a 20 minute "quiet time," and set your soul up for knowing it's met with and heard from God.  

One good discipleship gathering deserves another; and another and another after that.  Cammie and Brian offer some nuts and bolts for multiplying what you've been doing, and also a vision for how multiplying can be an every-disciple thing (not just a "leadership" thing) that saturates whole cities with the gospel.

Cammie and Brian open the full fruit laden picture of what Mission and Discipleship can look like when you're Community really comes together in 12-24 months.

At 4-12 months, it should start feeling normal.  Discussion is open, meaningful relationship is felt, discipleship starts growing.  We're not necessarily fruit yet, but everyone has a part to play, and they're playing it. 

It's weird.  That's the honest truth about grouping a handful of people to start discipling each other.  Cammie and Brian have some tips to get you started on the right foot, and keep stepping through your first four months.

Cammie and Brian break down the prayer and prep work that goes into starting a brand new discipleship gathering.

As Cammie and Brian have been leading Lakepoint Church for nine years now, there certainly has been some clarity that has come forward on the process, plan, and resources used for making disciple.  In this episode they lay out a three year plan for all new MC's in wholistic discipleship, and what to do if you been leading one for years already.

Making room for making disciples in group setting is a job that is part pastor, part group leader.  Cammie and Brian talk out who can be doing what so that the next person has space to be discipled.

At the turn of every Fall, Churches get reorganized and ready for ministry.  Setting a cadence for connecting with leaders is a big part of that, especially for those leading discipleship in group settings.  Cammie and Brian talk through Lakepoint Church's cadence for connecting with leader for Fall 2021.

In all things of a Sin-Less life, none of it holds together without holding gospel.

This is the big one.  Love changes everything you know about sin, and yourself/others as sinners.

You get a good picture of what a sin-less life looks like, if you can help each other picture what satisfies you (not thrills you).

A Sin-Less life doesn't happen by using the Bible like a bat (hitting harder on what you should and shouldn't do).   You have to read it for the core issue.

One of the big sins, that compounds yours sin, is thinking you're supposed to be the one to be able to fix it.  Fruit only comes by abiding.

We're told that Jesus has dealt with our sin, that sin is dead now and we're dead to it, and that we're new creations!  Whey then do we keep on sinning?  More importantly, what do we do about it? This episode opens a series of episodes on what it means to shape ourselves and circles with a sin-less life.

Discipleship is what you do.  Not what you say you'll do.  And Jesus is pretty pointed on making that point.

Not all questions are created equal.  A really good topic with really bad questions isn't going to grow you much.  Brian and Cammie talk you through the art of good question asking in this episode.