Discipleship is a lifestyle. Whether you're at work, school, or driving, every moment is an opportunity to grow.
Episodes
Monday Aug 12, 2019
Monday Aug 12, 2019
In his book, Movies are Prayers, Josh Larsen takes a look at the value of movies for understanding who we are as human beings. These stories on the screen give a voice to our deepest longings and desires. We watch movies like Citizen Kane as a man on his deathbed says, ‘Rosebud’, and are instantly reminded of the desire we all have for the safety and security we used to have when we were kids, when the chaos, filth, and sin of our adult lives leaves us feeling unfulfilled and meaningless. Or we watch movies like Inside Out and find ourselves appreciating the complexity and wide range of emotions we feel but sometimes struggle to understand. As disciples of Christ and people called to make disciples of all nations, understanding those deepest longings and desires can be a valuable tool for spiritual growth and helping others grow as well. And movies can help us understand them in ways we never have before.
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Thursday Aug 01, 2019
Thursday Aug 01, 2019
You feel the call of God to participate in missions, maybe not as a missionary, but definitely to do something. So now what? How do we find a place to get involved? And are there any mistakes we can avoid as we do? In this chapter, Stephen answers these questions and provides some great tips on how we can develop a missional mindset.
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Wednesday Jul 31, 2019
Wednesday Jul 31, 2019
For the past century, the church has has put a lot of emphasis on going to new places to preach the gospel. And it’s easy to see why. Jesus, after all, told his disciples to “go into all nations and make disciples.” And that’s part of Daily Growth Discipleship’s missions. We want to help you grow in your own discipleship journey so that your life would be a means of making other disciples. But in this chapter, Stephen Kuert talks to us about another passage of Scripture that we don’t usually look at for the purpose of missions. It’s the call the stay. And once we started down this road, we opened up a whole host of questions that showed us just how helpful developing a mindset for missions can be for creating a lifestyle of discipleship.
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Tuesday Jul 30, 2019
Tuesday Jul 30, 2019
We’re often scared to tell others about our relationship with Jesus because we’re afraid they’ll reject us or hate us for it. But that doesn’t always have to be the case. Could it be that we think we have to get them saved first before we can be good friends with them? We may not say that, but our lives may say that for us without words in the way we prefer to stay inside the walls of our churches or to spend all our spare time with our Christian friends. In this chapter, Stephen lays out a few practical tips for building relationships with other people. And it doesn’t have to be any more complicated than saying, “Hello, my name is Stephen. What’s your name?”
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Monday Jul 29, 2019
Monday Jul 29, 2019
Most of us realize that when it comes to sharing our faith, we could probably do more. We have a desire to tell our friends, family members, and neighbors about the good news that Christ came to save them. So why is it that we have such a hard time opening up about our faith when we know it’s an essential part of our discipleship? Jesus calls us to make other disciples. But it seems like every time we set our minds to sharing our faith with someone, fear wells up in our hearts, and we find a million excuses to keep us from reaching out. And that’s why we're so excited to be talking to Stephen Kuert this week. Raised as a missionary kid and now a missionary himself, Stephen helps us see discipleship, and our call to make disciples, through the unique lens of missions. And we believe you will come away from this conversation with a fresh perspective on how your lifestyle of discipleship can lead to making other disciples.
Check out the full show notes and resources for this episode at dailygrowthdiscipleship.com.
Thursday Jul 25, 2019
Thursday Jul 25, 2019
Much of Church history is filled with art. If you visit old churches or cathedrals, there’s an abundance of artwork depicting events in the past, people from history, and images that are meant to produce feelings in us that bring us to God. Art does something that words cannot in that way. And we can take advantage of that for our daily growth as disciples of Jesus. When we combine liturgical practices and the art produced by the body of Christ, we have a powerful tool for daily growth. In this chapter, Winfield discusses a few of the ways the church has lost the value of art and how we can bring it back and integrate it into our daily lives.
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Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
Why are young people across the United States suddenly turning to liturgical worship? What is it about liturgy that appeals to them so much? What unspoken need is being met? In today’s chapter, Winfield discusses who liturgy is for and how those of us from non-liturgical traditions can explore this style of worship for the first time.
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Tuesday Jul 23, 2019
Tuesday Jul 23, 2019
You have a tradition that you practice every day. You brush your teeth. You may not always like doing it, but the results are great. Cleaning our teeth is a tradition that’s been around for thousands of years. Many cultures practiced it quite differently and with various tools for cleaning the teeth, but it has been around for a long time. Ancient Egyptians are said to have made crude toothbrushes from frayed twigs. Thankfully, you don’t brush your teeth with a stick today. You have the benefit of thousands of years of learning to now brush your teeth as efficiently as it’s ever been done in human history. We in North America also tend to look at our growth as disciples of Christ very individualistically, thinking we have to figure out how to grow and that our growth is just so we can become more like Christ. But this misses the connection we have to the body of Christ both with us today and that came before us for the last 2000 years. You don’t have to figure out how to grow from square one, just like you don’t have to learn the best way to clean your teeth all over again. Millions of believers have gone before you, figuring out how to grow. And the practices that have worked stuck around in the form of liturgies. Your growth today can find life and structure in those practices. That’s not to say you have to practice everything exactly as it’s been done for centuries on end. It simply means you have the benefit of knowing what works and what doesn’t because someone has already figured it out. You now have the privilege of growing in richer soil than Christians 500 years ago. And your daily growth today will provide the soil for disciples in the next generation. In this chapter, Winfield unpacks some of the ways liturgies can bring life to our growth as well as some of the bad liturgies that we should probably avoid.
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Monday Jul 22, 2019
Monday Jul 22, 2019
Have you heard that we are in the midst of a movement of spiritual renewal happening in the United States? For the last 40 years young people have been turning to liturgical worship in order to find a deeper relationship with Jesus. Although some may think liturgical worship is outdated and repetitive, many are finding a new depth in their discipleship, one that is rooted in the history and community of the church. So this week as we talk with Winfield Bevins, we want to explore why this movement has gained so much momentum and how liturgy can help us become more like Christ in our daily walk.
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Thursday Jul 18, 2019
Thursday Jul 18, 2019
How does our discipleship, our following Jesus, affect our society? I hope from our conversation this week with Dr. Self, you have seen that discipleship isn’t something that stays in the church. We follow Jesus in the everyday moments of our life, whether that be in our jobs, during our commutes, at the park, or while we’re buying groceries. So how does this sort of discipleship serve the flourishing of our communities?
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