The KC Underground Podcast

This week begins a four-part interview with Darryl Answer, one of the directors of New Community, a Hub of the Kansas City Underground. The 4Ps are practices that help us live with greater incarnational intentionality. In this first episode, we'll do a high-level overview of the 4Ps and get into Prayer. The question we ask with Prayer is, "What is God saying to you?" Darryl will share how this framework has influenced their larger spiritual family and guides the way they live in and love well the East Side of Kansas City.   "Prayer is the activity to go to that feeds every other thing we do." 

In this week's episode we will follow up to other topics on timing in disciple-making. While knowing when to invite people into a DBS or when to introduce prayer is important, there are a host of other topics that we're probably always asking ourselves about. When do we baptize? When do we reproduce leaders? And, so many more. While we can't answer all the questions, we'll begin to explore a few of those questions.

We've got a new nugget in disciple-making this week. This week, we address the topic of timing. How do you know when to introduce prayer? How do you know when to invite people into a discovery Bible Study? We've all got questions on timing because we all have expectations about how fast or slow a group should go. That's what we begin to address with this disciple-making nugget.   

Hosts respond to interviews with Alan Hirsch, discussing impact on everyday leader. Embrace new way of thinking about the church. Emphasize importance of ordinary leaders embracing disciple making. Pushing power and function to the outer limits. Affirm leadership and empower everyday people. Everyday people reproducing the disciple-making process in their underground community.

Cory interviews Alan Hirsch, one of our heroes in the missional movement. Alan Hirsch is one of the founders of Movement Leaders Collective, as well as founding the Forge Mission Training Network and 5QCollective. Known for his innovative approach to mission and thought-leadership, Alan is highly sought after movement strategist for leaders, churches and denominations across the Western world. He is the author of numerous award winning books including The Forgotten Ways, 5Q, ReJesus, The Shaping of Things to Come, and The Permanent Revolution. In this episode, we focus more on the 7 Marks of Movement. 

Cory interviews Alan Hirsch, one of our heroes in the missional movement. Alan Hirsch is one of the founders of Movement Leaders Collective, as well as founding the Forge Mission Training Network and 5QCollective. Known for his innovative approach to mission and thought-leadership, Alan is highly sought after movement strategist for leaders, churches and denominations across the Western world. He is the author of numerous award winning books including The Forgotten Ways, 5Q, ReJesus, The Shaping of Things to Come, and The Permanent Revolution. The first episode focuses more on the mDNA that you can explore more in The Forgotten ways.  "If you don't pay attention to structure, it will pay attention to you." - Alan Hirsch 

In this episode, we get to hang out again with James Mays, one of the key leaders of Share the Hope, a network committed to disciple-making within the formerly incarcerated community. This episode is all about the next nugget in disciple-making: We need to keep it simple. Complex things don't reproduce fast or well. We'll come at this topic from a couple of angles and explore how James contextualizes keeping it simple within the Share the Hope network.  "Grow like a see at God's speed." - James Mays

In this episode, Brian interviews Michelle Wegner on the topic of Soul Care in response to the idea that Disciple-making is messy. In the previous episode we highlighted four areas where disciple-making gets tough and four areas where we have made significant mistakes. We were in part saying, "What do we do when it gets hard, or when we make a mistake?" The answer is simple, but not easy. The answer is Soul Care. Michelle unpacks some of her journey and passion around helping others care for their own soul. 

In this episode, Cory and Brian walk through the next disciple-making nugget: Disciple-making is messy. We highlight four points about the “harder” parts and four “mistakes” we’ve made as we have attempted to follow Jesus’s commission to “go make disciples.” We usually talk about effective strategies and tools that help us as we make disciples in the everyday stuff of life. The truth is, it’s never easy, and we’re not Jesus, so we’re going to make mistakes along the way. We’ll dive deeper in future episodes, but for now, we want to begin to address the more sobering realities of giving our lives away to others.

Cory and Brian offer a new nugget in disciple-making: To be effective, we must discern our context. The question here is, "To whom have you been sent." In this episode we'll talk about a few different ways that you can begin thinking about your missional context.