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1000 Houses Podcast

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Jul 13, 2025 • 47min

Obeying The Great Commission With Life on Life Discipleship

This episode is an overview of the Life on Life Discipleship Program we offer at 1KH, including: Jeremy's story and decades of experience making disciples The 10 mistakes to watch out for in your disciple-making The 10 things that makes 1KH Life and Life distinct from other movements, and why we think it has success If you're thinking about getting serious about following the Great Commission (which we HIGHLY encourage), this is a great episode to set the groundwork. In this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 3:06 Discipleship changed my life 9:05 The 10 Top Disciple-Making Mistakes 22:36 The 10 Top Life on Life Discipleship Distinctives 39:21 What's involved in Life on Life? 41:09 Why groups? 42:41 Doing this with kids? --- JOIN LIFE ON LIFE: https://1kh.org/discipleship   🏠 LEARN HOW TO MAKE DISCIPLES FOR JESUS, IN AND THROUGH YOUR HOME: 1kh.org --- Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes! Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1khouses/ Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1000houses/
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Jun 29, 2025 • 21min

The Top 10 Things House Church Leaders Should Prioritize (What Makes H4C Different)

The 1KH "A House For Community" coaching cohort combines over 25 years of training, research, and live experience into what we aim to be the best, most comprehensive, impactful, and sustainable programs for launching and growing your house church. In this episode, we dive into the 10 distinctives that separate A House For Community from the few other options out there when it comes to house church coaching and training. These are things we've worked long and hard to perfect and include, to be the most theologically robust, but also to be the most practical - to combat the top 10 mistakes we've made and experienced in our own journey (see the last episode for those things to avoid!). If you're thinking about starting a house church and are considering getting some help, here's why 1KH might be right for you. At the very least, it'll give you some things to think about as you continue on your journey! In this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 2:18 Distinctive 1: Respects the Unique Role of the Hosting Household 3:15 Distinctive 2: Designed Around Maximizing Sustainability 3:59 Distinctive 3: Finds First Principles From 1 Cor 10-14 5:28 Distinctive 4: Releases The Largest Number of Gifts To Build Up The Body 6:46 Distinctive 5: Strives for Unity with all Expressions of the Church 7:58 Distinctive 6: Models Local Accountability to Elders (City Fathers) 11:02 Distinctive 7: Focuses the Community on the Mission to Multiply Disciple-Makers 11:37 Distinctive 8: Clear Model for Multiplication 11:56 Distinctive 9: Prioritizes the Depth of Relationship and Dynamic Interdependence 12:48 Distinctive 10: Provides an Ongoing Connection 13:54 What's Involved and How To Join RESOURCES: Apply for Coaching: https://www.1kh.org/communitycoaching --- 🏠 LEARN HOW TO MAKE DISCIPLES FOR JESUS, IN AND THROUGH YOUR HOME: 1kh.org --- Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes! Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1khouses/ Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1000houses
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Jun 15, 2025 • 20min

The Top 10 Mistakes We've Made In Our House Churches Over 25+ Years

If you're thinking about starting a house church, PLEASE use our 25+ years of experience to avoid these 10 mistakes! 20 of those 25 years were more trial and error than success, so trust me when I say we've lived through many painful memories. But...for the past 5 years, I think we've finally cracked the code, and want to help you have the highest chance of success if you decide to do this in your own community. In this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 2:14 Mistake 1: Community over Disciple-Making 3:38 Mistake 2: Trial and Error over Coaching and Collaboration 4:28 Mistake 3: Disconnecting from any City Church Expression 8:46 Mistake 4: "Honey, I Shrunk The Church" 11:00 Mistake 5: Keep The Kids Away or Kid Chaos 11:54 Mistake 6: Prioritizing Jaded Adopted Kids vs. Bio Kids (Analogy) 13:58 Mistake 7: Misunderstanding the Hosting Household 16:20 Mistake 8: Making It Easy To Join and Hard To Leave 17:31 Mistake 9: Resisting Clear Leadership Roles 18:16 Mistake 10: Sharing The Hospitality Burden --- 🏠 LEARN HOW TO MAKE DISCIPLES FOR JESUS, IN AND THROUGH YOUR HOME: 1kh.org --- Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes! Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1khouses/ Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1000houses/
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Jun 1, 2025 • 45min

Organizing Communities Into Multiplying House Churches with Sarah Wood

Jeremy talks to Sarah Wood of Dwellings, to get her insights after 4+ years of helping people start home communities and house churches. Their model expects growth and multiplication, and this was a great episode that has a relatable back story and super practical, boots on the ground tips for how to start your own community and/or church. In this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 2:46 The Dwellings Story 6:07 Navigating The Shift To Home Church, And Finding Resources 13:38 The Presence of Christ 16:05 Helping Other Small Groups Launch 21:14 Insights After 4+ Years 29:52 Multiplying And Growing 34:25 Kids in House Church 36:19 Branding Resources Mentioned: Dwellings: https://dwellings.info/ Dwellings IG: https://www.instagram.com/dwllngs Kansas City Underground: https://kcunderground.org/ The Grace Outpouring by Roy Godwin: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0781408466/ --- 🏠 LEARN HOW TO MAKE DISCIPLES FOR JESUS, IN AND THROUGH YOUR HOME: 1kh.org --- Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes! Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1khouses/ Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1000houses/
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May 18, 2025 • 50min

How To Do a Christian Rite of Passage for Your Child with Matt Hanson

In this engaging discussion, Matt Hanson, a visionary behind the Aion Path and the National Rite of Passage Council, explores the essential role of fathers in their children's spiritual development. He shares insights into innovative rites of passage that foster deep connections and faith retention among youth. Matt reveals challenges modern families face in transmitting faith and offers practical tools for guiding children through their journey to adulthood. Tune in for inspiring ideas on nurturing spiritual growth through community and structured experiences.
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May 4, 2025 • 53min

The Prayer, Practice, and Power of Viral Disciple Making with Ryan Snow

What's missing in American discipleship movements that keeps us from being able to reach 4th generation and beyond disciples? Today's guest, Ryan Snow, has one, simple word: Prayer. Ryan Snow is the lead pastor at the Florence Northern Kentucky Vineyard Church, and has a heart for disciple-making. This is an awesome and super practical episode to take some notes on! In this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 2:39 Ryan's Story Leading To Discipleship 6:35 The Tension Between Discipleship and The Modern Church World 15:50 The Prayer, Practice, and Power of Viral Disciple Making 21:36 Why Does God Want A Prayer Movement To Precede A Disciple-Making Movement 24:13 How To Bring A Stronger Prayer Culture To The West 33:32 How To Start Fruitful Zoom Prayer Meetings 39:49 The Only Disciple-Making Movement That's Worked 47:14 Secret Sauce Conference Mentioned: The Secret Sauce Conference: https://www.secretsauceconference.com/ --- 🏠 LEARN HOW TO MAKE DISCIPLES FOR JESUS, IN AND THROUGH YOUR HOME: 1kh.org --- Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes! Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1khouses/ Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1000houses/
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Apr 20, 2025 • 52min

How To Disciple Disciple-Makers with Matt Massey

If we're going to have a disciple-making movement that absolutely explodes for Christ, it's got to organically make it past the third and fourth generations of disciple-makers. But that's just not happening in the West. Today we're joined by Pastor Matt Massey who took what he knew about marketing and sales and applied it to discipleship, and has spent the last couple of decades refining, tweaking, and building disciple-makers. Learn from Matt's mistakes and successes to find out how to build a disciple-making movement that ACTUALLY produces disciple-makers. In this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 2:31 Early Challenges in Discipleship 12:02 Current Discipleship Practices 21:09 The Shift in Discipleship Language and Focus 26:25 Practical Strategies for Disciple Making 35:51 Overcoming Institutional Challenges 47:29 Reproduction in Discipleship 49:07 Final Thoughts on Discipleship Mentioned In This Episode: Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert Coleman: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008FZ3YZU/ Dawson Trotman Biography: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0891097961/ --- 🏠 LEARN HOW TO MAKE DISCIPLES FOR JESUS, IN AND THROUGH YOUR HOME: 1kh.org --- Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes! Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1khouses/ Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1000houses/
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Apr 6, 2025 • 47min

City Transformation Through Relational Networks with Paul Hemminger

Paul Hemminger joins Jeremy on the show today to discuss local city networks to connect believers and make the body of Christ denser and more impactful. The Kingdom of God has a spatial, geographic reality to it, and it's so important that we interact with our city and the body of believers in our city to bring the Kingdom to our hometowns. Paul explains the vision and mission of the networks they're building, in hopes that others join in and help to create a strong, sturdy network of Christians who all help and work with one another. In this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 1:38 In (Your City) As It Is In Heaven 2:57 Paul's Story That Led To Geographic-Based Ministry 5:03 Kingdom Building vs. Empire Building 6:55 Identifying with Your City 14:33 The Structure of a Kingdom Movement in a City 19:59 Theology of Leadership 23:52 Building Relationships 27:19 Geographical Expansion of the Kingdom 32:40 Engaging with Secular Movements for Kingdom Work 37:30 Initial Steps to Building a Network 40:46 Integrating Networks for Citywide Impact 43:38 Final Thoughts and Prayer RESOURCES: City Leaders Collective: https://cityleaderscollective.org/ Kingdom Connect: https://www.kingdomconnect.love/ Kingdom Connect Networks: https://www.kingdomconnect.love/networks Networks: Greater Dayton and National: https://docs.google.com/document/d/131ZFrwrU2ONHJYAQh7N5yccgDwlII42ti1h66cHrMHw/edit?usp=sharing Rooting For Rivals by Peter Greer: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079BYP6GW/ To Transform A City by Eric Swanson: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0310523303/ Network Power by Dr. John Seel: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737331810/ The Kingdom Initiative: https://www.thekingdominitiative.org/ Palau City Gospel Movements: https://www.palau.org/what-we-do/city-gospel-movements https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexjtcampbell/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-gough-b91b342/ --- 🏠 LEARN HOW TO MAKE DISCIPLES FOR JESUS, IN AND THROUGH YOUR HOME: 1kh.org --- Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes! Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1khouses/ Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1000houses/
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Mar 16, 2025 • 59min

Applying Missionary Tactics To American Discipleship with Alex Rossie

Alex Rossie joins Jeremy today to talk about his experience as a missionary in Central America and how to get over the many roadblocks in our modern American culture that stop people from being disciple-makers. Alex talks about his experience with Ordinary Movement, helping existing churches turn their members into disciple-makers, and with Mosaic Movement, a disciple-making community he's founded. In this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 1:56 Alex's Backstory 4:28 Discipleship Learnings From Central America 11:18 Trying to Apply Central American Ideas To The US 21:58 Alex's Disciple Making Vision 34:20 Can We Tweak The American Church System To Launch Real Disciple-Making Movements? 37:26 Is Bi-Vocational The Way To Go? 41:39 How Ordinary Movement Is Making Disciple-Makers 53:04 Mosaic Vision Mentioned: Ordinary Movement: https://ordinarymovement.com/ Mosaic Movement: https://joinmosaicmovement.com/ Alex's Marketing Agency: https://www.leverageoms.com/ Letters To The Church by Francis Chan: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0830776583/ Contagious Disciple Making by David and Paul Watson: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0529112205 --- 🏠 LEARN HOW TO MAKE DISCIPLES FOR JESUS, IN AND THROUGH YOUR HOME: 1kh.org --- Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes! Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1khouses/ Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1000houses/
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Mar 2, 2025 • 24min

How The Story of the Bible Can Change Your Life

Transformation after transformation. People coming up to me years later to tell me how it changed their life. And all I was trying to do was write down what I'd learned about the STORY of the Bible. Thanks to God, Story-Formed Life has become much more than a Bible Study. It's become a foundational tool that continues to strengthen the deepest part of people's faith. Learn more about the project in this episode, and consider getting involved today. In this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 1:57 What Is Story-Formed Life? 18:50 Ways To Get Involved Mentioned: Story-Formed Life: https://storyformedlife.org/ --- 🏠 LEARN HOW TO MAKE DISCIPLES FOR JESUS, IN AND THROUGH YOUR HOME: 1kh.org --- Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes! Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1khouses/ Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1000houses/

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