The Shape of a Circle | Everyday Discipleship

Sometimes group discipleship setting can go stale and stalled, leaving you wondering how to engage everyone quietly staring at you!  Cammie and Brian get you a good list of angles you can come from to maximize engagement in this episode.

We're guessing every disciple-maker know how important baptism is, but do you know how important it is to for you yourself to be the baptizer?  Cammie and Brian cover the what, how, and why.

Why does Jesus say that Love is the Big and Basic direction that does it all in discipleship, but then say so much about the importance of Faith as well?  

Jesus said love sums up all the law, all the prophets, and every direction he has for you as a disciple and and disciple-maker.    

If Jesus saves from sin, why do we keep sinning?  And what do we do about it.  Getting more sin out and more gospel in is one of the bigs and basics of discipleship.

Anyone can open the Bible and ask questions... and everyone needs to as a disciple and disciple-maker.

What's a disciple?  Why is it so hard to define?  What does a disciple do?  The big definition is the most basic definition.

Troy Loether (Lead Pastor of Kettlebrook Church) and Brian have had a longstanding friendship and conversations around making-disciples - not as pastors - but in empowering every believer to make disciples.  In this extended Shape of a Circle podcast, Troy and Brian let you in on what these conversations between pastors are like.

The Bible is a really long book and it's not organized chronologically.  Here's the fastest overview of the story Brian knows how to give.

I'm not sure where modern evangelism came up with the idea that a tight consistent gospel presentation always needs to be on hand in your back pocket.  That's not how Jesus did it.

If you've got enough friends that you're personally discipling, maybe it's time to group them into something new that would keep everyone growing, and add the fun of doing it together. 

Jesus so often started discipleship with the words, "Come to me," or "Come follow me."  He didn't tell them everything they needed to know and do.  Discipleship was just the invitation to join him and learn along the way. While we're not Jesus, we can say confidently like Paul did, "Follow me, as I follow Christ."  Some the best discipleship you can offer a...

After telling someone the gospel of Jesus, it's easy to ask yourself, "Did that work?"  Brian and Cammie explain how some seeds grow slow, sometimes not at all, and that's it's really exciting when they do.

Yes, St Francis of Assisi  was right when he said 800 years ago: “Preach the gospel at all times, if necessary use words.”  But not fully right.  Romans 10:14-15 says "How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are...

Brian's neighbor Jason shares his story as he's discovering Jesus in his life.

Brian tells his gospel story with Fall - Forgiveness - Faith - Freedom.

Kennedy shares his gospel story with Fall - Forgiveness - Faith - Freedom.

Mike shares his gospel story with Fall - Forgiveness - Faith - Freedom.

Your story in the Gospel gets crafted by telling your Fall (what was wrong/missing without Jesus), your Freedom (where life is going now with Jesus), and the Hero's moment of Forgiveness & Faith (where and how Jesus first got ahold of you).

Jesus came that we'd have life to the full, not rules and requirements to the overload.  Mike Francisco joins Brian in this episode to look at a freer walk with Jesus that does life different.

God's already done it all, but gives us one way to receive it.

The second of four words that lay out the gospel is forgiveness .  It's the powerful internal transformation that covers your fall and earns your freedom; and the great lengths God went in providing it for you.

Continuing from yesterday's overview, we start digging into each of the four words of the gospel in more detail.  Every bit of brokenness and problems before us is a FALL away from  goodness as God made it, and ultimately a fall away from God himself.  To see gospel everywhere in everyday life, you've got see every issue as a fall issue.

If God has really done something good, then it's really worth talking about.   This episode equips you to talk Gospel with readily with four repeatable and hard to forget words.

Fellas and ladies approach this very differently, but the power of  a physical touch is that it bridges the space between one soul and another.