The CDM Podcast

RTP: Prison Prayer Movement & Taiwan's Request

Adam is our Taiwanese Disciple Maker. As new believers are getting baptize, our incarcerated friends are starting prayer movements within the walls. 

RTP: Israel & Prisoner Requests

Disciple Making takes prayer and intercession. Our incarcerated friends and good friend Kevin are the focus of our prayers this week.

RTP: Armenia & Cody's Celebration

Josh & Zoe have some celebrations on how God is moving in Armenia. Also Cody is our newest member to the Ambassador's Table. He shares why he is finally able to join us as we pray for our Incarcerated Brothers & Sisters!

RTP: Requests from Taiwan

We add a new family to our Remember The Prisoner Podcast. Adam joins us to pray for the prisoners requests. He also shares how we an pray for him as he disciples Taiwan natives to make disciples who make disciples.

RTP: Guinea Africa

Tim opens up about the ministry in Africa, and how locals are discovering and sharing God's Word to one another.

RTP: Germany's Progress

Thomas shares the latest in his Disciple Making ministry. We pray for him and the prisoners requests today in Remember The Prisoner.

RTP: Prisoners & Freedom Initiative

Join us today as we take prayer requests from prisoners and pray for them and the Freedom Initiative. 

The Heart of Engagement

Bottom-line Christian living centers around people as priority.

 

“Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or the things we do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet..”

 

In Christianity, we have often not cared about building relationships. We care about Gospel presentations–which can be unnerving at first. But relationships are hard work.

 

Foundationally, making disciples is not as much sharing the Gospel as it is walking with others in relationship; with the goal of seeing the Kingdom of God come.

 

—Our disciple-making efforts must build on the right foundation—

What is the Heart of Engagement?

RTP: Pray For Israel

Kevin joins us today to pray with us and give us things to pray for concerning his Disciple Making journey in Israel. Come ready to intercede for our brothers and sisters in prison and Israel.

Starfish, Spiders & the Myth of Decentralization

When it comes to DMM, does a centralized leadership team stifle the small group format? Is it more healthy to have leadership, or to not? The answer is a nuanced and emphatic: Both! The Navy seals have incredible leadership structure but operate in small bands, much like DMM. They accomplish this through incredible leader building with intense accountability. It allows the insight of the boots-on-the-ground operator to do what's best, while still being tied to the larger vision and purpose. Our brains can't move like fingers but they can transmit a single purpose that requires multiple faculties (our shoulder, arm, wrist) to work together to accomplish our goal.

If we pursue DMM with no central leadership, our work will have glaring weaknesses, conspicuous by their absence: 1) A radical commitment to a single vision and purpose. 2) Commitment to constant training, coaching and mentoring. 3) Ruthless Evaluation 4) Radical Accountability 5) A call to Higher Character and Maturity.

Today, we unpack all of these and answer many questions like:

• What does it take to have a decentralized team?

• What is appropriate and healthy decentralization?

• What happens when we begin training too soon?

and much more...