The Whole Disciple Podcast

Discipleship happens in relationships, and we want to help! We’ve put together a discussion guide for you to facilitate conversations just like this one with the biblical community in your life! Family Member Identity Conversation Guide #7—Living as Brothers and Sisters In this episode, Christy sits down with Sara Henderson and Jason Douglas to discuss what it looks like to live as brothers and si...

In the end, the final and eternal relationship men and women will have with each other is brother and sister. Because we’re all children of God—with him as Father, through his Son—that makes us siblings to each other. The gospel, and belief in it, creates a family that consists of brothers and sisters in Christ. Because we are truly brothers and sisters in Christ, men and women in the church ought...

Discipleship happens in relationships, and we want to help! We’ve put together a discussion guide for you to facilitate conversations just like this one with the biblical community in your life! Family Member Identity Conversation Guide #6—Being Family as Single and Married In this episode, Christy sits down with Elizabeth Hughes and Dave and Lauren Turner. They open up their lives to share their...

Both marriage and singleness are good and about the gospel—just differently. From Genesis 2 onward, marriage is a normal expectation in human existence—because it is God’s plan to create for himself a great big family, and without marriage, there would have been no way for the earth to be filled with God’s family. And marriage was always about Jesus and the church. Marriage is a God-ordained pictu...

Discipleship happens in relationships, and we want to help! We’ve put together a discussion guide for you to facilitate conversations just like this one with the biblical community in your life! Family Member Identity Conversation Guide #5—Being a Multiethnic Family In this episode, Christy sits down with John Messiah (Arabic mobilization director), Eddy Gil (associate campus director at Alamance)...

It is God’s plan from the beginning to the very end for his family to be a beautiful array of cultures and ethnicities, with people from all nations. In Revelation 7, we see God’s final vision for his family is to be a great multitude from “all tribes and peoples and languages.” But how did we get there? Through thousands of years of God’s commitment to bring people from all nations, tribes, and t...

Discipleship happens in relationships, and we want to help! We’ve put together a discussion guide for you to facilitate conversations just like this one with the biblical community in your life! Family Member Identity Conversation Guide #4—Being Family with Multigenerational Adults In this episode, Christy sits down with Bryan Galloway (shepherding pastor at North Durham) and Dustin Wells (pastor...

Discipleship happens in relationships, and we want to help! We’ve put together a discussion guide for you to facilitate conversations just like this one with the biblical community in your life! Family Member Identity Conversation Guide #3—Being Family with Kids and Students In this episode, Christy sits down with Toiya Williams (director of Summit Kids) and Jeremy Berger (NextGen pastor) to talk...

God’s family is a real family—with grandparents and parents and aunts and uncles and teenagers and kids—and when we live with the local church as family, we live out our discipleship across generational lines, both giving and receiving from those older and younger than us, as well as those who are our age, in a complex web of relationships that overlap and interweave. Christy explores this through...

Discipleship happens in relationships, and we want to help! We’ve put together a discussion guide for you to facilitate conversations just like this one with the biblical community in your life! Family Member Identity Conversation Guide #2—Being a Member of a Local Church In this episode, Christy sits down with Summit Church Campus Pastors Eric Gravelle and Warren Neverson for a chat about church...

The question is not if every follower of Jesus should be a member of a local church but simply which one . God’s design for our lives as disciples is to be members of a local church. It’s a nonnegotiable in what it looks like to be a disciple-making disciple. 1 Timothy 3:15–16 reminds us that all the instructions about what a local church is and how we should act in one are rooted in the gospel an...

Discipleship happens in relationships, and we want to help! We’ve put together a discussion guide for you to facilitate conversations just like this one with the biblical community in your life! Family Member Identity Conversation Guide #1–God Made Us for Family In this episode, Christy sits down with Lesley Hildreth, John Muller, and David Talbert for a conversation about living with the local ch...

To be a healthy disciple of Jesus, you must live your life in and with a church family because God made us for family and made a family for us. God made us for family, and specifically to share in his communion of love. Romans 8:5-17 explains how we have received the Spirit of adoption, and we cry to the eternal Father, as our Father and because of that, we know and the Spirit knows that we really...

Thank you so much for listening to Season 2 of The Whole Disciple Podcast! We hope this podcast is helping you grow deeper spiritually and also as a disciple of Jesus Christ. Share these episodes with family and friends to help them grow as well! Season 3 of The Whole Disciple will be back early next year with our Family Member season! Stay tuned!

Discipleship happens in relationships, and we want to help! We’ve put together a discussion guide for you to facilitate conversations just like this one with the biblical community in your life! Worshiper Identity Conversation Guide #6 In this episode, Christy sits down with Josh Ingram and Gus Pacheco for meaningful conversation about baptism and communion. They talk through why baptism and commu...

In this episode, Christy rounds out her teaching on the ordinances by focusing on communion. Communion is the church’s gospel meal with two components: bread and wine. And the Bible says that as we eat the bread and drink the wine, we remember and proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. Christy walks through the significance of bread, wine, remembrance, and proclamation in communion and ends wit...

In this episode, Christy teaches about the God-ordained practices of baptism and communion. She explains that baptism and communion are God-ordained gospel responses for us to grow to be more like Jesus. Baptism is our gospel portrait, and communion is our gospel meal . These practices are gospel responses that we experience not just with our minds and hearts, but with our bodies.  Christy then di...

Discipleship happens in relationships, and we want to help! We’ve put together a discussion guide for you to facilitate conversations just like this one with the biblical community in your life! Worshiper Identity Conversation Guide #5 In this episode, Christy sits down with Curtis Andrusko and Raudel Hernandez to talk about preaching. They share their own stories of how they became preachers and...

God expects his people to gather together to preach and hear the Bible. In this episode, Christy teaches from Colossians 1:24–29 about how preaching brings the Word of God, in order that the people of God would be more like Jesus. She ends with some practical next steps to grow as a worshiper through preaching: Listen and Prepare with Expectation Participate in the Sermon Reflect on the Sermon Uph...

Discipleship happens in relationships, and we want to help! We’ve put together a discussion guide for you to facilitate conversations just like this one with the biblical community in your life! Worshiper Identity Conversation Guide #4 In this episode, Christy sits down with Kyle Wilkinson, Janetta Oni, and Abby Hernandez to talk about worship through song. They all share their stories of how God...

God expects his people to gather together to worship. Our weekend worship gathering is his idea, not ours. The practices of singing, preaching, baptism, and communion are ordained by God for our gathering to help us grow to be more like Jesus.  In this episode, Christy teaches about worship through song by looking at Colossians 3:16 and the three different directions for our singing in that verse:...

Discipleship happens in relationships, and we want to help! We’ve put together a discussion guide for you to facilitate conversations just like this one with the biblical community in your life! Worshiper Identity Conversation Guide #3 In this episode, Christy sits down with Pastor Chris Gaynor to talk about the ups and downs of prayer in real life. Pastor Chris shares his story of how he became p...

Prayer is one of the most basic discipleship activities. In a really simple way, we might say prayer is just communicating with God—speaking and listening to him. Which means, prayer is ultimately about relationship. Through his life, death, and resurrection in our place, Jesus reconciled us to God and into a loving relationship with him—where he loves us and now, we love him back with our whole h...

Discipleship happens in relationships, and we want to help! We’ve put together a discussion guide for you to facilitate conversations just like this one with the biblical community in your life! Worshiper Identity Conversation Guide #2 In this episode Christy sits down with Eric Stortz and Michal Rudolph to talk about all things Bible reading in real life. They share their own passion for Bible re...

You can’t be a whole disciple without the Bible. From the very beginning of following Jesus, Scripture has been there—shaping how we hear the good news, believe it, and live it. In this episode, we explore Peter’s words in 2 Peter 1:16–21, where he compares his breathtaking experience on the Mount of Transfiguration with something even better: the Word of God. The Bible, he says, is a lamp that sh...