The Disciple Maker‘s Podcast

It is vitally important for you to establish safeguards for yourself when discipling hurting people, because your best gift to others is a healthy you! In this session, Melanie and Marshall from Mercy Multiplied discuss very practical safeguards that you can build into your life to ensure that you are as healthy as you can be for the people that you are discipling.

This episode features Melanie Wise and Marshall Gallagher of Mercy Multiplied giving their third track session at our National Disciple Making Forum. Discipling someone who is hurting is much more complex than just helping them fix their eternal issues/struggles. We’re called to help others discover the root causes to their struggles and to disciple them into a relationship with Jesus where He can bring healing and transformation at a root level in their lives. In this session, Melanie and Marshall unpack the concept of the “why” behind people’s “what.” They also dive into the importance of understanding the source of people’s pain, how Jesus responded to hurting people, and how to love someone who is struggling well (including key principles of listening and responding to them).

This episode features Melanie Wise and Marshall Gallagher of Mercy Multiplied giving their second track session at our National Disciple Making Forum. In this session, they unpacked the discipleship keys that have proven transformational to thousands of hurting people for 39 years in Mercy Multiplied’s counseling programs: Key 1: Total Commitment to Christ Key 2: Healing Life’s Hurts Key 3: Renewing the Mind Key 4: Choosing to Forgive Key 5: Breaking Generational Patterns Key 6: Using Your Authority in Christ Key 7: Maintaining Lifelong Freedom

This episode features Melanie Wise and Marshall Gallagher of Mercy Multiplied. It is vitally important that you know who God has called you to be as you disciple people who are hurting and struggling. But it is just as important that you know what you are not called to be! Melanie and Marshall dive into the important characteristics of an “ambassador of freedom,” understanding your role in other people’s lives (as opposed to God’s role in their lives), knowing who you can help and who you cannot help (yet), and having a firm grasp on when outside support is needed.

This is the fourth and final track session that Lionshare did at the National Disciple Making Forum 2022. Dave Buehring along with Darren Bearson, Laurie Frey, and George Kehoe, showed us what it looks like to begin making disciples where we work.

In this episode Dave Buehring and Lauri Jarvis of Lionshare shared their experiences of discipling children beyond just the basics. Bible stories are important. They're an essential part of helping children understand the life of Jesus, the heroes of the faith, and who God is. But we have to further than that. A new Barna report finds that to truly prepare our children for faith-filled adulthood, we need to consider reframing "children's ministry" as something closer to "child discipleship."  

Dave Buehring of Lionshare  talked to us about feeling burned out while doing ministry that we think is what God wants us to do versus getting plugged into where God is already moving.

This episode features Dave Buehring and Grant Edwards of Lionshare giving a track session about discipling people into knowledge versus into obedience. The way the Western church has communicated spiritual truths has relied much more on what we are learning (the Greek model), than who we are learning from (the Hebrew model). Knowing Scripture is important but for life transformation to happen, we need revelation from the Holy Spirit and the will to obey.

This is part 2 of a conversation Freedom in Christ Ministries had at our Forum this year on how your identity in Christ informs and enables you to have conversations about race.

How do we as believers respond to the heightened racial tension in our country today? Freedom in Christ Ministries believes that our spiritual identity, not our ethnic or racial identity should guide our conversations. Learn how your identity in Christ informs and enables you to have conversations about race and experience for your self what Freedom in Christ is all about.