Exponential Podcast

Dave Ferguson interviews Matt Chandler about ReThinking Preaching. Matt is a speaker at Exponential East 2014. exponential.org

Interview on new eBook: Evangelism or Discipleship by Bill Hull & Bobby Harrington. exponential.org/ebooks

Interview with author Jay Hein on his FREE eBook, The Greater Good. Available at exponential.org.

Interview on new Exponential ebook from Larry Walkemeyer available FREE at exponential.org/ebooks

Rich Gorman shares about his new FREE eBook, Just Step In. exponential.org/ebooks

Vince Antonucci talks about his new eBooks, Preaching to the Unconvinced and Sermons for the Unconvinced. exponential.org/ebooks

Michael Frost on 5 Habits of Highly Missional People. exponential.org/ebooks.

Alex Absalom shares about his latest eBook in the Exponential series, The Viral Gospel: How Finding Your Person of Peace Accelerates Your Mission. Download your FREE copy at https://www.exponential.org/ebooks/the-viral-gospel/

Dave Ferguson talks about the 2014 Exponential theme: Seek and Save. exponential.org

Interview with Dave Ferguson about his new eBook Keeping Score that is available via exponential.org/ebooks

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Mike Breen and Sally Breen talks about why the Missional movement will fail. There has been much talk over the last few years about missional movements. Sadly, for all of the discussion and effort, the missional movement is destined to fail if it is not accompanied with a simple but significant way of making disciples who can make disciples who look like Jesus. It simply isn't sustainable. In this workshop, we'll look at the ways in which a discipling movement is always the undergirding foundation for any missional movement of lasting force and momentum.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Pete Scazzero talks about emotionally health discipleship. This practical seminar will look at how to implement the unique missing elements of spiritual formation in 21st century churches around the world. Questions that will be addressed include: How do we nurture leaders who serve out of deep interior life with Jesus, a cup that overflows? How do we grow people who are emotionally mature adults who create a healthy church culture? How do equip our leaders who to have a growing, dynamic marriage and/or singleness that sustains them for ministry long-term? How do we initiate specific changes for the transformation of the wider church culture?

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Reggie McNeal speaks about how, in the parable of the Good Samaritan, the person in need only gets help when someone gets off his donkey. This workshop is a call to action for leaders to unbundle and release the social capital of our congregations into making our communities better. God's people need to call the party of cross-domain collaboration to solve our biggest problems.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Dave Rhodes and Mike Breen discusses how every movement of discipleship and mission in the last 2000 years has actually had a number of things in common. In this workshop, we'll look at the necessary components for starting a discipling movement, focusing particularly on a common language, reproducible vehicles and the rate determining step for every movement: Reproducing leaders.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Bill Hull, a highly respected discipleship leader, helps church planters understand their role as the head coach creating a disciple-making community. Practical insights from one of North America's leading voices on discipleship.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Mike Breen talks about the relationship between the Missional movement and the Discipleship movement. In this workshop we'll look at the principles Jesus used to disciple people in mission and give you direction on how to do this yourself. In addition, we'll give stories from the United States and around the world along with practical insight on how using the discipleship vehicle of a Huddle has unleashed a missional movement.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Philip Nation talks about the kind of person necessary for change. We've all heard the saying: "Everything rises and falls on leadership." This workshop will address the type of leadership necessary for discipleship to be transformational and how to put believers on a path to leadership as well.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Philip Nation speaks about posturing yourself for God willed change. What kind of posture is necessary in a person's life for life change to occur? Is it just humility or is it just missional? Join us for this workshop as we deal with the ideas of how personal posture and relational intentionality affect discipleship.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Michael Keller talks about avoiding legalism when teach teaching the Scriptures. Discipleship needs content. But to just blandly say "Teach the Bible" is not enough. In this workshop, leaders will be equipped to get their people looking through the proper lens and engaging with Scripture effectively.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Kevin Haah, lead pastor of New City Church in the heart of Los Angeles, unpacks why relationships are vital in a post-modern, multi-cultural, socio-economically diverse world. Proven from experience lessons learned and practical steps to follow that will build a world-changing church.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Jason Lantz, who planted Love Canton, shares why the principles of "up, in and out" matter if you want to be a disciple who makes disciples. Pragmatic practices that have been proven in the Love Canton church plant.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Alex Absalom, one of the pioneers in the missional movement, shares the value, benefits and Biblical basis for using different group sizes in discipleship as well as practical steps to launch missional community groups.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Greg Nettle, President of Stadia and Senior Pastor of RiverTree Church, shares why relationships, experiences and information are essential to discipleship along with practical tips to jumpstart your discipleship adventure. Real-life practice from RiverTree and Stadia.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Mac Lake talks about creating leadership systems. Leaders encounter a multitude of challenges, problems and decisions everyday. Handling these issues almost always means dealing with people on your team. Having an intentional process to lead can not only reduce problems but maximize the performance of the players on your team. In this workshop Mac Lake will be providing tools and processes for developing an effective system of leadership.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, JR Lee discusses pushing your team towards action. Mobilizing a team requires intentionality, care and vision. Sometimes it is scary for leaders because it challenges tendencies of self-reliance, fear, and control. This teaming approach builds a deeper leadership/followership capacity in the entire team. Discover principles and strategies to empower a team to act boldly and experience extraordinary results.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Jonathan Robbins talks about maintaining healthy relational environments on your team. Even the best teams are only as effective as their relational connections. Talent and skill will only take you so far. Eventually, the relational dynamic of your team will surface and prove to be the difference between a team that thrives and one that merely survives. Discover what makes and keeps a team healthy.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Tony Morgan addresses the six steps to building healthy senior leadership teams. Based on Tony's eBook Take the Lid Off Your Church, this presentation is designed to help you rethink your structure beginning with the senior leadership team. Tony will address several key questions regarding the health of your team. If you feel stuck in your leadership or as an organization, you might want to stop looking at your frontline staff or blaming the people you're trying to reach and spend a little more time evaluating the health of your senior leadership team. This workshop is designed to help you begin that journey.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Dave Ferguson and Jon Ferguson talks about networks and moverments of multi-site. Are you thinking multisite is so "yesterday"? Do you feel like you've heard all there is to say about reproducing leaders, campuses, and churches? Think again. This workshop is for your entire leadership team. You will learn how to lay out a dynamic reproducing strategy, giving practical 'how-to's' for not only reproducing Christ followers, leaders, artists, groups/teams, and sites, we'll also look at the new frontier of reproducing that results in movement: reproducing apostolic leaders and networks. Many church leaders think this new frontier of the missional movement is inspirational, but not something that's achievable. Join us to learn how.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Greg Ligon walks us through some best practices of going multi-site. Is multisite right for your church? What are some of the most innovative practices in multisiste churches across the country? This workshop will explore the foundational multisite models and the latest innovations that have grounded and grown the multisite movement.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Hugh Halter and Matt Smay discuss gathered-and-scattered nature of the church. Learn how to value existing church forms---attracting people to a physical church and releasing people into hands-on ministry ...Bringing together the very best of the attractional and missional models to catalyze a missional movement of incarnational people into the world for Jesus Christ.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Brad Brisco speaks on engaging your first three places. While more and more people are less and less interested in the programs and activities of the church, we must learn how to lovingly engage people in our 1st, 2nd and 3rd Places. In this workshop we will discuss the topics of biblical hospitality in & through our homes (1st place), understanding how God has placed us in a vocation for His missional purposes (2nd place), and what it means to identify, create, and support Third Places in our community.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Lance Ford talks about the posture of servant cultures. Jesus and the New Testament writers spoke of serving 40 times as much as they did leading. Too often the life of Jesus directly contradicts much of what is being imported into the church under the mantra of effective leadership practices. Lance turns the tables on conventional leadership by pointing to the Servant-ship ethos of Jesus.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Matt Smay, Hugh Halter, and Brandon Hatmaker discuss the future of equipping and resourcing the missional church. Every missional leader is challenged to build a framework that establishes a pathway for making disciples and developing leaders. You will be introduced to a strategy that can hold together discipleship and leadership development, while evaluating the use of resources to fuel movement. We'll help you move from missional conversations to missional movement, and you will hear how the Missio team is getting the job done locally.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Hugh Halter unveils the process his team takes every church member through to limit consumerism and create only one pathway forward--The "pathway of missional discipleship."

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Caesar Kalinowski talks about discipleship in the rhythms of life. Over and over again when people begin to engage a life lived on mission they wonder or ask, "How would I ever have the time to DO all of this?!" But God has designed our lives in such a way that we already live in a rhythm of opportunities to both display and proclaim the gospel. It is not a matter of adding new things to our life; it is about living with increasing gospel intentionality. We must shift our thinking from "Additional to Intentional".

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Brandon Hatmaker guides us through the seven steps to engaging need through missional community. We cannot engage culture and ignore the needs of culture. Join Brandon Hatmaker as he discusses not only how to learn to "do right" but also how a socially active Missional Community is a biblical part of making disciples. The result will be communities that stay on mission, a process that is easily reproducible, and a disciple-making culture that increasingly loves mercy and seeks justice.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Jeff Vanderstelt talks about the power, purpose, and plan of the gospel. Discipleship can no longer be seen as an "add on" or optional aspect of the mission of the Church. The imperative of the Gospel is that we make disciples who make disciples. For us to fully grasp this, a full and powerful understanding of the gospel must be seen through two lenses: Power and Purpose. When understood in this way, the gospel is both the power that saves us and it gives us the purpose for which we have been saved.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Larry Osborne speaks about discipleship in the real world. Let's admit it, most of our current hot button discipleship strategies and methods sound a lot better than they look in the real world. Come discover discipleship's dirty little secrets, and the inconvenient truths about spiritual growth & maturity that most leaders miss.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Jim Putman outlines the five components to becoming a disciple-making church. Take a closer look at how implementing these five key components into your church's culture can help your church achieve the role of making disciples of Jesus who make disciples of Jesus.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Ed Stetzer speaks about why discipleship matters. New (and established) churches need intentional pathways to discipleship, fostered by a culture and systems that facilitate disciple making and multiplication. In this session, Stetzer will address the issues of disciple making in a new church, with research and examples from other new churches and the church he is currently planting.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Aaron Couch talks about the meaning of "beyond salvation". Aaron Couch co-founded Real Life Ministries with Jim Putman and then ten years later moved to Moscow, Idaho to start a new church in that secular, university town. Aaron will talk about true transformation; an engagement with post modern realities with a focus on discipleship (what it means to go beyond "just salvation")

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, hear the story of the Crossings, a large church committed to multi-site campuses in small towns, and how they made the shift to discipleship. Practical teaching on both church planting and transitioning an established church from Jerry Harris who is a co-founder of the Relational Discipleship Network.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Robert Coleman talks about Jesus' method of discipleship. Robert Coleman in the author of The Master Plan of Evangelism, which has sold millions of copies around the world and is considered the seminal work on Discipleship. In this workshop Robert will unpack Jesus method of discipleship which is as applicable today as when he first wrote about it 50 years ago.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Bobby Harrington speaks discusses evangelism vs discipleship. We are not told to make converts, but disciples. Learn how to think about "pre-conversion discipleship" instead of "evangelism." This simple shifts leads to a different approach. It especially helps us to see that conversion is the most important step in the discipleship journey. If we focus on the whole discipleship journey, we will lead people on a more holistic conversion experience. People who come to know the gospel in this way will be better prepared for the kingdom life, here and now. Presented by the co-author of the conference theme book, DiscipleShift and a leader in the Relational Discipleship Network.

In this Exponential 2012 podcast, Jeff Vanderstelt and Alan Hirsch will explore what it means to create a dynamic basis for mass movements by focussing on developing core practices and thinking (DNA) that can both generate and sustain movements over the long term.

In this Exponential 2012 podcast, Chris Seay speaks about leading a gospel centered church. Paul's letters to the church in Corinth are useless to churches that only engage the religious culture, but they have so much to teach the church that enters the deep brokenness of culture. Discover the truths that guide churches engaging the brothels and pagan temples of our day.

In this Exponential 2012 podcast, Matt Keller speaks about being a leader worth following. As leaders, our hope is that as people get closer to us, the more they respect us and the more they want to follow us. But, we all know some leaders where that is not the case. Being a leader is more than a title. We all know this intuitively, yet it is so easy for us to follow the leadership styles that we've seen modeled elsewhere. In this breakout, we are going to be looking at 7 ways that we can all become a Leader Worth Following.

Jim Putman is the founding pastor of Real Life Ministries, one of the largest, fastest and most missionally minded churches within the USA in the last 10 years. Real Life Ministries is in Kootney County, Idaho, where the church serves as the largest non-governmental social service agency. On a weekly basis they minister to thousands - through their community service projects, thrift store, Recovery Ministry (with 700 people in weekly attendance), etc.,. Jim will share the story of how the church serves the community and how their service helped support their growth. Jim will explain how service is both a reflection of discipleship and a pathway back into the church where people learn how to become disciples.

In this Exponential 2012 podcast, Brandon Hatmaker speaks about the changes a church must make to gain and maintain missional momentum. "Missional Church" is a redundant label... at least it should be. At the very heart of biblical church lies a call to be a community on mission. Most of us agree. Many of us are trying. Yet too often we fail to make key structural changes that ensure lasting missional momentum. Join Brandon Hatmaker in an open discussion on 5 key areas of church structure that will undermine your leadership and kill your momentum if left unchecked.

In this Exponential 2012 podcast, Dave Olson speaks about your leadership style. Learn about a new, free online tool for leadership development. The Leadership Stool provides a simple, yet powerful model to improve your leadership, and better lead your staff, your lay leaders and your whole church. You will learn about the 6 Christian leadership styles, receive a detailed report on your specific style and a team manual to use with your leaders.

In this Exponential 2012 podcast, Larry McCreary and Caleb Crider speak about missionary skills for the church planter. What can you learn from the underground church in East Asia, the persecuted church in the Middle East, and the postmodern church in Europe that will help with your church plant? If you're going to plant a biblical church in your unique context, you need to think and act like a missionary. We'll introduce practical skills that will revolutionize your missional church efforts, including mapping, cultural exegesis, and navigating social tribes.