The CDM Podcast

The vibrant mystery of your destiny–the life God longs to walk with you into–is discovered on the other side of lived fundamentals. Without Intentionality, life will take these foundations. The road of successful Disciple Making Movements have 7 strategic mileposts. How should we prepare to fine-tune our disciple making journey? And what does God say about two fundamental questions: 1) How do I practice…  2) How do I equip others to…   If you currently don't have a community leading you to tried-and-true methodologies, consider us family.

We are joined by Stephen & Rachel. They recount some stories, we get their prayer requests and then we dive into prayer for our incarcerated brothers & sisters.

Let's pray together for God to move inside the Prisons in the US

Join us and pray for our incarcerated family-in-Christ as we gather to seek God's Kingdom to come to Prisons

Join us as we lift up our incarcerated family-in-Christ in prayer. We visit Thomas in Germany and get his prayer requests as we ask God to move in his local disciple-making efforts.

We head to Taiwan with Adam to see how we can best pray for the Disciple-Making efforts taking place there. Join us as we pray for the incarcerated body of Christ.

Today we have many prisoners wanting the Holy Spirit to come invigorate and make God's Son Jesus glorified within the prison walls.

Today we pray over a handful of Incarcerated Requests from across the country. Join us and seek God to show himself faithful and a Father to our overlooked brothers and sisters.

This week has stories of Salvations and Healing, and chocked-full of prayer requests. Join us as we celebrate what God is doing, and press in with faith for what He is about to do. 0:27 Intro 3:20 Verse of the Week 4:23 Praying for Prisoners 7:07 Travis - RJ Donovan 12:40 Lonnie - Anamosa St Pen 17:30 HEALING CELEBRATION - Robbie 19:39 Bradley- RJ Donovan 22:59 Bobby - Anamosa St Pen 28:15 CELEBRATION - Satanist gave his life to follow JESUS 31:43 William - RJ Donovan 41:40 Call to Action 42:41 Guests: Pastor Del & Pastor T

Dawn shares with us, the story of their latest baptism as we celebrate this new disciple walking out King Jesus' desires for him. Join us as we pray for the prisoner's prayer requests as well.

Come celebrate how God is moving with RJ Donovan in San Diego and pray for Germany as they move forward in their disciple making ministry.

Adam is our Taiwanese Disciple Maker. As new believers are getting baptize, our incarcerated friends are starting prayer movements within the walls. 

Disciple Making takes prayer and intercession. Our incarcerated friends and good friend Kevin are the focus of our prayers this week.

Josh & Zoe have some celebrations on how God is moving in Armenia. Also Cody is our newest member to the Ambassador's Table. He shares why he is finally able to join us as we pray for our Incarcerated Brothers & Sisters!

We add a new family to our Remember The Prisoner Podcast. Adam joins us to pray for the prisoners requests. He also shares how we an pray for him as he disciples Taiwan natives to make disciples who make disciples.

Tim opens up about the ministry in Africa, and how locals are discovering and sharing God's Word to one another.

Thomas shares the latest in his Disciple Making ministry. We pray for him and the prisoners requests today in Remember The Prisoner.

Join us today as we take prayer requests from prisoners and pray for them and the Freedom Initiative. 

Bottom-line Christian living centers around people as priority.   “Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or the things we do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet..”   In Christianity, we have often not cared about building relationships. We care about Gospel presentations–which can be unnerving at first. But relationships are hard work.   Foundationally, making disciples is not as much sharing the Gospel as it is walking with others in relationship; with the goal of seeing the Kingdom of God come.   —Our disciple-making efforts must build on the right foundation— What is the Heart of Engagement?

Kevin joins us today to pray with us and give us things to pray for concerning his Disciple Making journey in Israel. Come ready to intercede for our brothers and sisters in prison and Israel.

When it comes to DMM, does a centralized leadership team stifle the small group format? Is it more healthy to have leadership, or to not? The answer is a nuanced and emphatic: Both! The Navy seals have incredible leadership structure but operate in small bands, much like DMM. They accomplish this through incredible leader building with intense accountability. It allows the insight of the boots-on-the-ground operator to do what's best, while still being tied to the larger vision and purpose. Our brains can't move like fingers but they can transmit a single purpose that requires multiple faculties (our shoulder, arm, wrist) to work together to accomplish our goal. If we pursue DMM with no central leadership, our work will have glaring weaknesses, conspicuous by their absence: 1) A radical commitment to a single vision and purpose. 2) Commitment to constant training, coaching and mentoring. 3) Ruthless Evaluation 4) Radical Accountability 5) A call to Higher Character and Maturity. Today, we unpack all of these and answer many questions like: What does it take to have a decentralized team? What is appropriate and healthy decentralization? What happens when we begin training too soon? and much more...

Add a national & global expression to your prayer life. Come with us and pray for prisoners and Josh & Zoe as they continue their Disciple-Making work in Armenia.

"DMM in the macro, [focuses on the big picture and] recognizes the scope of what it takes to catalyze Disciple-Making Movements, is much bigger than what one person can do with their time. Macro-DMM thinking focuses on Systems, Processes and Developing Leaders." In it's greatest expression, Macro-DMM acts like a brain: balancing the strengths, commitment levels and vision of where we are going--the effect of this is that we can move together as a unified body, the Body of Christ.   "DMM in the micro's focus is, what does me and my team need to do each day to make disciples, that WILL in turn make more disciples?" At it's best, Micro-focused DMM gives us momentum, step-by-step progress to achieving our big vision.   In today's podcast, we cover the following: What are the 5 different levels of a leader, and how does thinking Macro/Micro help you progress through these levels? How to set yourself up for strategic planning by categorizing your efforts into Micro/Macro Disciple Making.  How the body of Christ can assume their role and work together to have a unified effect on neighborhood, city and country alike.

Today we pray for the incarcerated as well as a group in Iowa bent on seeing the Kingdom come to their city. Come pray with us and intercede for God do greater things inside the prison and outside.

Come Pray for our brothers & sister in Christ that are Sanctified--set apart for a purpose--for a season. Join us as we pray for them as well as brother Tim Heiney's work in West Africa.

What is Project Next Gen? Paul and Rebecca discuss our critical need to intervene on the behalf of our youth and the next generation as Christians. In this podcast, they share the why and what of Project Next Gen. Using methods that have started movements around the world, we seek to recapture the hearts of the Next Generation and create comprehensive plans to reach more children and families than ever before. Forming teams from various ministries and cultural specialties, we work together in ways that take us back to the power of discipleship and God's Word— obeying it and sharing it with others— along with practical and essential efforts to address the evils and problems our next generation faces.

Remember The Prisoner: Prayer Today marks a milestone for the Freedom Initiative. Today's episode details what to expect in our newly released Prayer Podcast for prisoners. Join us in: Celebrations, Prayer Focus - Germany & more; and a nice, "dog-pile" prayer session for the prisoners. Tune in and pray for our brothers and sisters who are behind bars.

Busyness, sin, weeds, thorns, distractions, a poor schedule; these can paralyze our disciple-making endeavors and make it feel like a bummer... Don't be a bummer... Learn from practical examples and metaphors to help you reflect; there may be things in your disciple-making adventure that are sucking the joy out of the journey!

Don't miss this one! Prayer is our bottom layer foundation in Disciple Making Movement principles. Let's be sure to orient our efforts to include these 5 points so we are not moving forward in vain.

Preston Conder gives us raw insight into disciple-making; a journey of dashed hopes and throwing in the towel. But when God calls him off the bench, Preston makes a comeback that sees over 20 high schoolers come to faith and get baptized.

Preston Conder gives us raw insight into disciple-making; a journey of dashed hopes and throwing in the towel. But when God calls him off the bench, Preston makes a comeback that sees over 20 high schoolers come to faith and get baptized.

As the space between church and culture widens, we explore the fruit and unfolding vision of CDM's Freedom Initiative. The FI unifies the body to bring God's Kingdom to one of America's most “hard-to-reach” people groups: the Incarcerated.  Getting involved is easy. Whether it is prayer, financial or as a mentor, we have teams and community for you to come with us. Email: team@contagiousdisciplemaking.com to join.    Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for more premium content. For just $5/month, you can have access to the premium content of each episode—that's 8 podcasts a month!   Click here to sign up. Like our Facebook page. Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Visit our website.

We unpack the the vision of Freedom Initiative and it's unfolding real-time.     Getting involved is easy. Whether it is prayer, financial or as a mentor, we have teams and community for you to discover and belong. Email: team@contagiousdisciplemaking.com with us.   Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for more premium content. For just $5/month, you can have access to the premium content of each episode—that's 8 podcasts a month!   Click here to sign up. Like our Facebook page. Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Visit our website.

“I go and I hear about Contagious Disciple Making, about making the book of Acts come alive, about walking in obedience to Jesus, about listening to what he says and actually doing it no matter the cost. This is it. And my life will never be the same.” - Darlene Collom   In today's podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing talk with Darlene Collom a disciple-maker in the Anglican Church and how disciple-making principles can work in the church.   Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for more premium content. For just $5/month, you can have access to the premium content of each episode—that's 8 podcasts a month!   Click here to sign up. Like our Facebook page. Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Visit our website.

"We want to see all peoples in our cities reached. Not just some people. We believe that through movements we can see whole families, whole communities, whole areas, coming in mass to Jesus and becoming disciple makers." - Rebecca Ewing   In today's podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing share the vision for CDM and discuss new initiatives and plans.   Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for more premium content. For just $5/month, you can have access to the premium content of each episode—that's 8 podcasts a month!   Click here to sign up. Like our Facebook page. Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Visit our website.

“I said ‘Who needs [Jesus] the most of all these prisoners?' The other chaplain said the medium security guys. To be in there you have to be in trouble after you have been in trouble. When he said that, I said there is where I am going. I had learned from CDM, you go to the hardest places first because that is where the fruit is.” - Jack McCarty In today's podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing talk with Jack McCarty who served as a chaplain in a prison. Jack along with others and the CDM team are starting the Freedom Initiative to teach disciple making principles in prisons. Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for more premium content. For just $5/month, you can have access to the premium content of each episode—that's 8 podcasts a month! Click here to sign up. Like our Facebook page. Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Visit our website.

“The Prayer Calendar has been incredible. I literally feel lonely is I don't do it. Because its like this really simple system where ever day I'm calling or texting someone in my life and being like ‘hey how can I pray for you this week' and then I share my own prayer need. Is super awesome to have that network of prayer.” - Steven Cain   In today's podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing talk with new disciple makers that are in coaching with CDM. They discuss getting started and how coaching has impacted their disciple making process.    Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for more premium content. For just $5/month, you can have access to the premium content of each episode—that's 8 podcasts a month!   Click here to sign up. Like our Facebook page. Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Visit our website.

“I was a little apprehensive to begin with but the minute we started talking about this being different than anything  they had ever done before, and opened the Bible up to God's word and the first guy, not myself one of the other guys, read the passage from the Bible, it seemed like everyone in the groups hearts were touched right then and there. And it was like, this is where I'm supposed to be.” Gregg Woodard In today's podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing talk with Gregg from the Freedom Initiative about his experience in prison disciple making and what it is like working with parolees.  Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for more premium content. For just $5/month, you can have access to the premium content of each episode—that's 8 podcasts a month! Click here to sign up. Like our Facebook page. Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Visit our website.

"The more time I spent there [in Israel], the more problems that I saw in the region, regarding peace and justice. It's my conviction that only the Kingdom of God can bring peace or justice. And as I continued to seek the Kingdom of God more and more, I came to see that nothing short of a disciple making movement would really make a material difference" Kevin Vollrath   In today's podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing talk with two of our foreign partners Justin serving in Slovenia and Kevin serving in Israel. Justin and Kevin share how CDM has changed how they minister.   Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for more premium content. For just $5/month, you can have access to the premium content of each episode—that's 8 podcasts a month!   Click here to sign up. Like our Facebook page. Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Visit our website.

“I became a practitioner before I started teaching my people because I can't ask my people to do stuff that I'm not doing. So when I'm talking to [pastors] the first thing I ask is ‘Hey are you satisfied with how you're fulfilling the great commission? How your church is fulfilling the great commission?' Because that is one of the things that got me initially looking around and finding CDM was I was not satisfied with what I saw happening in my context vs what I was reading in the scripture” - Pastor Michael Dorsett   In today's podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing discuss how churches can get involved with Disciple Making Movements and talk with Pastor Michael Dorset about his experience making this amazing transition.   Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for more premium content. For just $5/month, you can have access to the premium content of each episode—that's 8 podcasts a month!   Click here to sign up. Like our Facebook page. Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Visit our website.

“Our [Disciple Making] Community isn't just meeting once a week. We're doing live together throughout the week. And really making an impact in the community in places that are broken” - Joleene   In today's podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing discuss the impact that Disciple Making Communities are making in local cities and how CDM made it possible in the San Diego area. They are joined by disciple makers for the San Diego area.   Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for more premium content. For just $5/month, you can have access to the premium content of each episode—that's 8 podcasts a month!   Click here to sign up. Like our Facebook page. Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Visit our website.

"As we look into engaging during the holidays, often times we think that either I will have fun or I will be about ministry. And the reality is that we can have both. In fact what we will have is so much more joy and meaning as we are able to enjoy these things with other people." - Rebecca Ewing   In today's podcast Rebecca Ewing and Paul Watson share why the holidays are a great and effective time to engage the lost. Focusing on principles to use for brainstorming how, how to make it natural and not awkward, and utilizing events that are already happening.   In part 2, Rebecca and Paul share more about engagement during the holidays by looking at inviting others and volunteering.   Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for part 2. For just $5/month, you can have access to the premium content of each episode—that's 8 podcasts a month!   Click here to sign up. Like our Facebook page. Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Visit our website.

"I can't tell you how important that insider is. The indigenous person can do it, where and outsider like me, I have been in the [Prison] system for four years, I was a Chaplin, I was supposed to be a good guy. I'm supposed to be a minister of the gospel, but when we got an inside leader who has already been trained and brought up by God to be a leader in general…then it just began to explode." - Jack McCarty   In today's podcast Rebecca Ewing and Paul Watson talk with Jack McCarty and Greg Woodward about the the CDM Freedom Initiative where they are working in prisons to see disciple making movements start.   In part 2, Jack and Greg share more about what they are doing, how it is working, and plans for the future of the the CDM Freedom Initiative.   Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for part 2. For just $5/month, you can have access to the premium content of each episode—that's 8 podcasts a month!   Click here to sign up. Like our Facebook page. Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Visit our website.

"I don't care if you are one person in the middle of no where, if you say I am willing to obey, I'm willing to follow, I'm willing to do something even though nobody else is, God is going to use it." Rebecca Ewing   In today's free podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing share about an upcoming event on November 1st, A National Night of Prayer for America and how we as disciple makers can respond and pray for our nation to change and see the Kingdom of God come.   In this week's premium content Paul and Rebecca expand on the topic of prayer for our nation and share four negative responses that believers often have when we hear bad news in our nation.   Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for this week's premium content. For just $5/month, you can have access to the premium content of each episode—that's 8 podcasts a month!   Click here to sign up. Like our Facebook page. Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Visit our website.

"Prayer mobilization is our primary recruitment tool for brining people into disciple making." - Paul Watson   In today's podcast Rebecca Ewing and Paul Watson discuss mobilizing prayer. Discussing the darkness around us, and how we can use upcoming events to give our communities reasons to mobilize in prayer.   In part 2, Rebecca and Paul share specific ways to take advantage of times and seasons to mobilize prayer.   Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for part 2. For just $5/month, you can have access to the premium content of each episode—that's 8 podcasts a month!   Click here to sign up. Like our Facebook page. Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Visit our website.

"Jesus, when he came, wasn't talking just about a kingdom to come, but a kingdom that is at hand" - Paul Watson   Recently, Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing, shared from the main stage of the New Wineskins conference. They spoke about Disciple Making Movements and Discovery Bible Study and how it can change communities for the Kingdom of God.  In today's free podcast we wanted to share this presentation.   In this week's premium episode, you can watch the video version of this great presentation.   Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for this week's premium content. For just $5/month, you can have access to the premium content of each episode—that's 8 podcasts a month!   Click here to sign up. Like our Facebook page. Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Visit our website.

"We want to mobilize disciple makers not just encourage them. Mobilizing is facilitating the action of doing it." - Rebecca Ewing In today's free podcast we present an edited version of a training Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing facilitated recently on the benefits of disciple making communities and the tools used in them.    In this week's premium episode, we present the full unedited version of the training with even more information about Disciple Making Communities and how they can best fit into the legacy church.   Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for this week's premium content. For just $5/month, you can have access to the premium content of each episode—that's 8 podcasts a month!   Click here to sign up. Like our Facebook page. Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Visit our website.

"Good engagement will often allow us to share and experience life together." - Paul Watson   In today's podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing discuss the four areas of engagement, give some great examples, and how to make the most of all four areas. After that they look at the qualities of good engagement.   In this week's premium episode, Paul and Rebecca discuss how to hone engagement ideas and compare and contrast 6 different kinds of engagement and discuss which are best and how to utilize each.   Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for this week's premium content. For just $5/month, you can have access to the premium content of each episode—that's 8 podcasts a month!   Click here to sign up. Like our Facebook page. Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Visit our website.

"You do not develop leaders in a classroom alone, you develop leaders as you help them get started in the habits." - Paul Watson   In today's podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing discuss generational thinking. They explore the ideas and the need to not just think about what we are doing now but to think about how what we do today effects the next two or three generations of disciple makers that we may never meet.   Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for more premium content. For just $5/month, you can have access to the premium content of each episode—that's 8 podcasts a month!   Click here to sign up. Like our Facebook page. Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Visit our website.

"We cant function and bear fruit as disciple makers unless we are connected to the vine which is Jesus Christ." - Paul Watson   In today's podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing discuss helping churches bring siloed ministries including Prayer, Discipleship, Evangelism, and Good Works together to create movement in disciple making.   In this week's premium episode, Paul and Rebecca look at working with multiple churches in a region to create disciple making movements.   Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for this week's premium content. For just $5/month, you can have access to the premium content of each episode—that's 8 podcasts a month!   Click here to sign up. Like our Facebook page. Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Visit our website.

"A lot of times we get people who are disciple makers who want to jump right in without any kind of preparation or any concept of becoming the kind of person, a man or woman, that God would intrust with the task of finding a person of peace." - Paul Watson   In this week's podcast, Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing discuss what it takes to be the kind of disciple maker that is ready to connect with a person of peace.   Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for even more great podcast content. For just $5/month, you can have access to our premium content!   Click here to sign up. Like our Facebook page. Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Visit our website.