The KC Underground Podcast

Lee Price (Episode #9) Cory and Brian have a second interview with Lee Price. This week we asked Lee to walk us through each of the steps in Activating Prayer. Rather than this just being an interview about Lee’s work, this is more of an equipping podcast with some “on-the-field experiences” mixed in. The stories will demonstrate what this type of prayer looks like in action. Some of these stories, and the ideas and language that Lee uses may stretch your religious world-views a bit depending on the type of background you have. For some of you it resonate deeply. We’d challenge you to come with an open and generous spirit to say “Jesus, what do you want me to hear out of this today? What’s one new step I can take in extraordinary prayer?” Be challenged. Find someone that you can share this with and ask them to have a conversation with you about it. Our hope is that this training will support the work you’re doing in your context.     Activating Prayer Introduction [1:15] The Starting Place is Covering Prayer [6:28] Covering Prayer Example [6:45] Taking Ownership [8:26] Establishing a beachhead [16:00] Observing What’s Going on Around You [18:23] Obedience [22:05] Ask the Lord about binding the enemy [25:20] Bind the Strong Man [25:45] Ask if you need to bring in other people [29:00] Blessing Prayers [30:30] Pray for Personal Cleansing [33:00] Example of Cleansing Prayer [35:00] Final Overview of the Steps [37:12]  Resources Mentioned in Podcast Lectio365 [3:10] Prayer Walking our Missional Space  Next step with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

Lee Price (Episode #8) Cory and Brian interview Lee Price who is a missionary with NOVO’s Pioneering Initiatives Team. He has been a missionary for over 15 years with a focus on simple church, reproducible discipleship, and activating prayer. He lives in Colorado and has a real passion to ignite a disciple making movement and help equip emerging leaders with missional practices and strategies. He has also helped start a number of nonprofits and works part time as a consultant with local government leaders. The focus of our discussion today will be on Prayer Walking our Missional Space.. This week Lee takes us further on the concepts we explored with Sam Metcalf and brings in some new ideas around training leaders in prayer, specifically activating prayer. We think you’ll be encouraged and also challenged with the stories Lee shares. Lee Price Background in calling and CPM [3:54] Day to Day Life in Ministry Post “Movement Conversion” [8:00] How to Use a Building for the Kingdom [10:30] Learning Listening Prayer [12:35] Learning to practice the presence is the first key [15:07] Not doing mission for the sake of mission… [17:23] We have to do activating prayer in his power [21:00] Step 1: Identify Missional Space [23:45] Identify Missional Space through Listening Prayer [24:30] Step 2: Consistently Go to your Missional Space [25:00] Step 3: Learn Effective Strategies [25:30] Step 4: Actively Look for Persons of Peace [26:00] Step 5: See Kingdom Transformation take place [27:10] Story of the High School [27:20] “God has given us domain over the places we reside” [31:30] “When we engage the Spiritual realm, and see the enemy pushed back, things change in the physical realm [32:53] Taking space in a downtown area [33:50] Practice the Presence and Receive Kingdom Assignments from Jesus, not us [42:50] Next step with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

In this episode of the Underground Podcast, Brian and Cory interview Sam Metcalf, the president of Novo. Sam and Patty Metcalf were one of four families that founded Novo in 1980, and he has served as president since 1985. He holds an undergraduate degree with honors from the University of Virginia, a master’s degree from the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Seminary, and a doctorate from the Fuller School of Theology. He also is an adjunct professor of Missional Practice in the SIS at Fuller. Sam also coordinates CoNext, the global partnership of Novo-like mission entities in a dozen nations that share mutual mission, vision, and values, all led by national leadership. Sam is ordained in the Evangelical Free Church of America. His book, Beyond the Local Church: How Apostolic Movements Can Change the World (InterVarsity Press) is a clarion affirmation to those called to ministry beyond the boundaries of local churches and a validation of the structures necessary for these apostolic leaders to thrive. He’s authored an array of other booklets and articles (available online through Novo). Patty is equally involved in ministry with a particular focus on healing prayer and intercession. Sam and Patty live in Southern California and have a son and daughter, both married, and five grandchildren.   While Sam will talk about the paradigm and idea of leading with prayer, you’ll be encouraged with some practices as well. This episode will probably push the “church filters” for many, but it was a powerful experience as Sam shares stories from his years of experience with making the supernatural natural. Let it push and stretch you. Experiment and practice as Sam suggests, see where Holy Spirit takes you.   1:07 – Cory chokes on a peanut 1:31 – Sam Metcalf paragraph from Engaging the Supernatural 2:40 – Sam responds about prayer and movements components 3:40 – 1st essential component: Activating Prayer 5:40 – Power of Blessing Prayer 8:05 – Equipping on Blessing Prayer 11:11 – Before we ever pray, the first thing we want to do is listen 13:13 – This is an identity reality 14:00 – Story of Serbia 14:36 – Southern California Story 15:18 – Resistance/Receptivity Axis 16:20 – We’ve skipped the hard part of praying first 22:45 – How do we disciple people into these ways of prayer 24:05 – Teach, Train, Transmitting 28:17 – Seeing in the supernatural 34:00 – Experiment and try it 34:30 – Biblical, non-biblical, extra-biblical 39:50 – Prayer of Blessing over the Underground   Resources: Engaging the Supernatural – Sam Metcalf – 1:31 Beyond the Local Church – Sam Metcalf – 2:47 Ffald y Brenin – Wales – 4:52 Grace Outpouring – Roy Godwin – 5:40 The Way of Blessing – Roy Godwin – 5:45 Next Steps With the Underground Next step with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

Extraordinary Prayer and Fasting (Episode #6) Cory and Brian talk about how movement catalysts need to make certain paradigm shifts and the first extraordinary prayer and fasting. It’s the beginning of every movement. It’s the beginning of our “missionary pathway” in KC Underground. How do we begin to live into this deeply? Cory’s Article [1:30] We’re all invited to be disciple-making leaders [2:00] Add one extra thing [3:10] Our Prayers have to match our vision [5:15] Breathe in and Breathe out prayer [6:15] Move away from transactional [7:15] The Prayer Tool [8:20] This is God’s story, we’re just connecting to His story [12:35] Characteristics of Movemental Prayer [13:25] Significant Personal Prayer [13:50] Significant Team Prayer [14:02] Regular and Lengthy Fasts [14:25] Mobilization of Extraordinary Prayer [17:14] Offer of Early Prayer [19:00] Prayer directly correlated to disciple-making fruit [21:39] Prayer is the strategy [24:50] Resources mentioned in this episode: Cory’s Article [1:30] Prayer Circles – [8:20] Next step with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

Cory and Brian interview Becca Patton. Becca is a campus minister at the University of Evansville in Indiana. In this role she engages and disciples students to become confident carriers of the Gospel through outreaches, discipleship training, leadership development and ownership of Christ’s Kingdom vision. Becca’s calling is to make disciples of Jesus that impact their campus, community and the nations. This isn’t your normal campus ministry. Becca and her team have a desire to implement disciple-making movement principles with university students who will then take the Gospel to the last, the least and the lost. - Becca’s Introduction [2:10] - A Shift in Mindset [5:03] - Joining God’s Work: Combatting Performance and Perfection [8:35] - Recognizing the Voice of the Enemy [10:03] - Listening to God in Missional Living [11:30] - Waking up to Disciple Making [13:35] - Abide and Remain vs. Flaming Out [15:03] - Investing in a Few to Reach Many [17:58] - Person of Peace; an RA’s story [25:10] - Generational discipleship story [27:43] - Measuring Growth of DMMs [30:58] - “We take care of the depth, God takes care of the breadth” [34:18] - Tools for Growth in the Supernatural [35:26] - Encouragement for The Underground [40:01] Resources mentioned in this episode: - Accelerate Network [1:30] - Experiencing God [7:30] Next step with the Underground: - Subscribe to our newsletter - Connect with us for Coaching - Support the Underground

Find the One to Reach the Many Cory and Brian interview Phil Alessi about the idea of having a mindset for movement. Phil unexpectedly launched a movement within a prison in Indiana through his meetings with just one inmate, Donnie, and now can chronicle about 3,200 new disciples who have come to Christ through this movement in three years. The story of what’s happened in Indiana has inspired many others to launch similar ministries and refined strategies for leaders who already had ministries going in prisons. This is one of the key ways the gospel movement in Indiana has gained momentum—not just through the prisoners themselves, but through the multiplication of new ministries all over the world. The gospel movement in Indiana has become a “learning laboratory” for movement, and leaders working to launch movements in all kinds of contexts (not only prisons) have been able to glean valuable strategies and encouragement from it. Phil explains. “That’s really the point of it. That’s how a gospel movement works. You can’t control it, you can’t keep your hands on it. You have to give it away, letting someone else be greater than you. That’s what’s happening in this movement. Phil found one. The rest is history—and a very different future for thousands of people. Phil Alessi and his wife Ruthann have been with CRM since 2002 and currently serve on the Advance Team (previously Accelerate) in Northwest Indiana. They have discipled people of peace who have ignited gospel movements in area jails and prisons. Their vision is to mentor and multiply the leaders of Disciple Making Movements. *The language from this introduction was borrowed from the novo.org action blog. See the videos about this movement among prisoners here. -   Phil Alessi’s story  [2:00] -   Person of Peace- Integration without labels  [5:50] -   Cory- Mindset, Momentum, and Movement [7:02] -   More of the story- How can we reach the most people? [8:05] -   Holy Spirit is preparing PoP [10:28] -   How to live the PoP life amidst Covid-19 [13:00] -   5 Postures- HORSE describes PoP[14:34] -   Hungry spiritually, Open relationally, Share w/friends and family, Emerge as leaders [15:58] -   Tools to equip new leaders [18:15] -   Spiritual Hunger- Cory’s Fav Phil acronym [20:00] -   10 Stories of Hope Scripture list. [21:55] -   Brian’s 2 questions- 1st is Soul Care [27:13] -   2nd question- How to keep a mindset of movement [30:07] -   Wrap Up [33:32] Resources mentioned in this episode: -   Website with Resources [19:20] -   http://dbsgroups.com/ [23:30]  Next step with the Underground: -   Subscribe to our newsletter -   Connect with us for Coaching -   Support the Underground

Cory and Brian interview Chris Galanos and learn about a network aiming at movement in Lubbock, TX.

An interview with Joe Reed, the founder of Exponent Group. Joe has had experience in “macro” and “micro” church planting. After several years exploring missional communities in the context of Pretoria, South Africa, Joe and his family moved back to the states to begin a new work in Boston. Joe also leads Accelerate, a network that serves as a platform for those who are sharing resources and learnings from across different regions and affinities.

Brian and Cory explore the idea of disciple-making movements. What does that phrase even mean? How do you know you have one? What leads to a movement?  We’ve overused another word in the Christian world. We’ve become obsessed with the idea of movement, and we might be using the word to describe something we want to be a part of rather than something that is actually happening. Instead of over-selling our work, we’ll explore other language that can help us make incremental steps in order to see movement as the fruit of a long-term work.    Why do we talk about movement? [2:30] Church Planting Movement Definition [6:05] A Mindset of Movement [9:38] The Opposite of Movement Mindset [14:35] Momentum [22:36] What’s important in the Momentum Phase [27:10] Movement [32:30] Disciplemaking must happen in community [39:35] Don’t focus on form over function [40:55] “Fruit drives multiplication, not division” [41:55] “A mindset of movement leads to desperate prayer” [44:50] In Sum… [47:05]   Resources mentioned in this episode:  Church Planting Movements – David Garrison [5:38] Steve Addison – Movements.net [8:10] Kingdom Unleashed – Jerry Trousdale [32:30] Practicing the Way – Bridgetown Church [38:30]   Next step with the Underground:  Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground