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Episode 35: Disney Micro-Church Movement

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The Discipleship Pathway

The American church has created a system where only experts get to play, he says. "It is like years into the distance before there's ever a conversation about being able to make a disciple" The way Jesus did it was by investing his life in ordinary people so they could do every single thing that he was doing and giving all of his power away.

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It sounds like the way of Jesus, Stephen, because Jesus gave all of his power away. And the whole point, the whole point was him investing his life into these very normal regular everyday people so that they could do every single thing that he was doing. And my observation and criticism of the American church and why I believe that the American church is not growing is because we have created the system where only experts get to play. And so if you are the seminary trained expert, you know, who has the plaque on your office wall, then you get to teach the Bible. And everybody else gathers around to hear you very like expertly talk about very complex things. And we create this distance. And you know, the Bible is so complicated that, you know, like, you have to really have a seminary degree to be able to pick that thing apart and really understand it. And so we've created the system where when a new believer meets Jesus, well, then they have to go through this class. And then there's this like discipleship pathway. And it is like years into the distance before there's ever a conversation, if there ever is, about being able to make a disciple. And so there's this when we talk about disciple making, I think many churches in North America will have a list of qualifications. And if you meet all of those qualifications, and if you know enough information, then we can talk about you teaching other people or knowing. But if you look at movements across the world, it looks much more like what you're talking about, where seated into the DNA is quick multiplication.

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