The CDM Podcast

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.

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...

Add a national & global expression to your prayer life. Come with us and pray for prisoners and Josh & Zoe as they continue their Disciple-Making work in Armenia.

"DMM in the macro, [focuses on the big picture and] recognizes the scope of what it takes to catalyze Disciple-Making Movements, is much bigger than what one person can do with their time. Macro-DMM thinking focuses on Systems, Processes and Developing Leaders." In it's greatest expression, Macro-DMM acts like a brain: balancing the strengths, commitment levels and vision of where we are going--the effect of this is that we can move together as a unified body, the Body of Christ.

 

"DMM in the micro’s focus is, what does me and my team need to do each day to make disciples, that WILL in turn make more disciples?" At it's best, Micro-focused DMM gives us momentum, step-by-step progress to achieving our big vision.

 

In today's podcast, we cover the following:

What are the 5 different levels of a leader, and how does thinking Macro/Micro help you progress through these levels?

How to set yourself up for strategic planning by categorizing your efforts into Micro/Macro Disciple Making. 

How the body of Christ can assume their role and work together to have a unified effect on neighborhood, city and country alike.

Today we pray for the incarcerated as well as a group in Iowa bent on seeing the Kingdom come to their city. Come pray with us and intercede for God do greater things inside the prison and outside.

Come Pray for our brothers & sister in Christ that are Sanctified--set apart for a purpose--for a season. Join us as we pray for them as well as brother Tim Heiney's work in West Africa.

What is Project Next Gen?

Paul and Rebecca discuss our critical need to intervene on the behalf of our youth and the next generation as Christians. In this podcast, they share the why and what of Project Next Gen.

Using methods that have started movements around the world, we seek to recapture the hearts of the Next Generation and create comprehensive plans to reach more children and families than ever before. Forming teams from various ministries and cultural specialties, we work together in ways that take us back to the power of discipleship and God’s Word— obeying it and sharing it with others— along with practical and essential efforts to address the evils and problems our next generation faces.

Remember The Prisoner: Prayer

Today marks a milestone for the Freedom Initiative. Today's episode details what to expect in our newly released Prayer Podcast for prisoners. Join us in: Celebrations, Prayer Focus - Germany & more; and a nice, "dog-pile" prayer session for the prisoners. Tune in and pray for our brothers and sisters who are behind bars.

Busyness, sin, weeds, thorns, distractions, a poor schedule; these can paralyze our disciple-making endeavors and make it feel like a bummer... Don't be a bummer... Learn from practical examples and metaphors to help you reflect; there may be things in your disciple-making adventure that are sucking the joy out of the journey!

Don't miss this one! Prayer is our bottom layer foundation in Disciple Making Movement principles. Let's be sure to orient our efforts to include these 5 points so we are not moving forward in vain.