The Whole Disciple Podcast

Worshipper Identity Conversation Guide #1 : Discipleship happens in relationships. Use our Worshipper Identity Discussion Guide #1 to spark conversations with your small group, friends, or family. Season 2 of The Whole Disciple Podcast is all about our identity as worshippers. In this episode, Pastors Jonathan Welch and Joseph Scarfone share their stories of becoming worshippers of Jesus—and what...

Season 2 of The Whole Disciple Podcast is all about our identity as worshippers. Each episode will explore what it means to live as people created for worship—and how that shapes every part of following Jesus. What is a worshipper, and what does that have to do with the gospel of Jesus Christ? In this episode, we explore how the gospel— “Jesus in my place” —is good news for worshippers. God made u...

Healthy disciples are always growing as worshipers, family members, servants, stewards, and witnesses. But how do we know what that looks like? A part of that is asking, “What’s my next step?” But in order to answer the inward-focused question, we first have to look outward. Before we ask, “Am I?” we look to Jesus and say, “He is.” Only when we look to him do we see ourselves rightly, because our...

What does it really look like to grow as a whole disciple—day by day, season by season? In this episode of The Whole Disciple, Christy sits down with Kivett, Lauren, and Richard—three members of the Summit Church family—for a real, honest conversation about how they’ve grown in the five identities of a disciple: Worshiper, Family Member, Servant, Steward, and Witness. Through everyday stories of p...

What is a disciple? In a general way, “disciple” just means being a follower or student of something or someone. As Christians, we mean that we are followers or students of Jesus Christ, which is a very special kind of disciple. If you’re a disciple of anyone else, the entire focus of your discipleship is about what you do. You are measured by your own work against the standard of your master’s wo...

In this episode, Christy sits down with Pastor Bryan Loritts to talk about what it means for Jesus to be the center of all things. Pastor Bryan shares some of his story of how he first met Jesus through the investment of his church and his parents. Then, as he became a Christian, his parents discipled him by training him in the faith through reading the Bible, prayer, telling others about Jesus, a...

Being a disciple is all about the gospel. Believing in the gospel of Jesus Christ is how we became disciples, continuing to believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ is how we grow as disciples, and preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ is how we make disciples. “Gospel” means “Good News”, and at the Summit, we explain that good news as “Jesus in my place.” Jesus lived in my place. He died in my place,...

In this episode, Christy sits down with Pastor J.D. Greear to talk about what it means to prioritize the gospel above all, and what that looks like in real life. Pastor J.D. shares his story of how he first became a follower of Christ as a young man. His story opened up an opportunity for us to discuss how your being saved always happens at an exact moment, but we don’t always know exactly when th...

Who does the gospel say Jesus is? Jesus is the Son of God and the Savior. Jesus Is the Son of God When Christians say and believe Jesus is the Son of God, one of the most important things that we mean is that everything it means to be God, Jesus is. The book of Hebrews says it this way: “He [Jesus] is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature” (Hebrews 1:3 ESV). In other...