The Practitioners Podcast: Applying Jesus Style Disciple Making in Every Day Life

In this episode of the podcast Justin and Tony share about their summer, the current status of the podcast, and the future of the pod!    Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries

Takeaway: Faithful people come from faithful tending.    Action Step: Are you faithful? If so, who are you tending?   SUMMER BREAK for the PODCAST COMING!    Show Notes:   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Show Notes:   Centerville Grace Disciple Making   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Takeaway: You have what you need to make disciples right now!   Action Step: It's time to face the fear, get on the disciple making bike and become a disciple maker!    Show Notes:   Get The Bicycle Illustration   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Takeaway: Disciple making doesn't have to be weird or awkward. It's held together by proper framing!   Action Step: Memorize the two triangles and what they stand for.    Show Notes:   Get The Bicycle Illustration   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries

Story: The front and back wheel.    Takeaway: The power of your life as a disciple comes from your relationship with God.   Action Step: How is the air in your tires? (Go Download the Pdf!)    Show Notes:  Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries Follow 2 Lead Podcast

The Goal: His life in ours…   Little Christ   Gal. 2:20, “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave his life for me.”   HOW TO HELP ANOTHER DO IT? Disciple's cultivate their appetites and interests Modeling Vision casting Pruning / Challenge   Takeaway: Disciples cultivate their lives to grow the love they have for the Master.   Action Step: Self- assess and ask at least one other about what they see in your loves and interests.    Show Notes:   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Follow 2 Lead Podcast

Takeaway: You may not always need an active discipler, but you do need people in your life to speak God's wisdom.    Action Step: Evaluate your council and evaluate your definition of disciple making.      Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries Follow 2 Lead Podcast

Summary of 3 Episodes: Pathway won't make disciples, but it will provide direction and movement. Steps to a Pathway: Step 1: Determine Your Values.  Step 2: Describe the destination.  Step 3: Discuss the Reality of Your Current Culture.  Step 4: Decide what practices everyone will do.  Step 5: Design a step-by-step process that outlines WHAT will happen WHEN.  Step 6: Dig up and discard barriers.  Step 7: Discern how to continually improve your pathway.    Takeaway: Every movement faces mistakes, don't be surprised when you see one.    Action Step: Evaluate your discipleship pathway, put it on paper, and share it with your team of disciple makers.    Show Notes:   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Takeaway: Every pathway begins with the first step be bold enough to take it!    Action Step: Evaluate where you are in developing a disciple making pathway–and take your next step!   Show Notes: Step 1: Determine Your Values.    Step 2: Describe the destination.  Step 3: Discuss the Reality of Your Current Culture.  Step 4: Decide what practices everyone will do.  Step 5: Design a step-by-step process that outlines WHAT will happen WHEN.  Step 6: Dig up and discard barriers.  Step 7: Discern how to continually improve your pathway.    https://www.justingravitt.com/blog/marks-of-a-disciple-making-culture-discipleship-pathway    Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Takeaway: The first step of building a disciple making pathway is to develop clarity on what problems you expect it to solve.   Action Step: Take the time to evaluate or plan your pathway. Get clear about what you expect from it once it's complete?    Show Notes:   A Discipleship Pathway Solves THIS Problem, but not THIS One    Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast  

The purpose of having a clear picture of a disciple BEFORE a pathway!    Takeaway: You can't make it or be it if you can't see it.   Action Step: Take time to collaboratively develop and share your picture of a disciple.    Show Notes:   Picture of a Disciple Article   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Recalibrate: to calibrate again. To check or adjust by comparison with a standard. To mark the scale of a measuring instrument.  “We may want God, but we want something else more, and we will get what we want the most.” AW Tozer   “We fail to reach our goals, not because of obstacles, but because of a clear path to lesser goals.” -Robert Brault   Takeaway: Recalibration is essential to abiding. It involves resting, rooting, and pruning   Action Step: Take at least 3-4 hours to recalibrate this holiday season.    Show Notes:   Jer. 17:7-8   Emotionally Healthy Spirituality - Scazzero   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

We are trying to make CREATIVE DISCIPLES, not simply PROFICIENT DM. Concepts: Open Faith, Open Bible, Open Life   Takeaway: Disciple making requires us to become something and for us to help others become something.   Action Step: What are you doing to become an equipped disciple maker?    Show Notes:   Disciple Towards Proficiency or Creativity? Consumerism Articles from Justin    Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast  

   Disciple making DID NOT happen outside of an INVITATION, A CONFIRMATION, A DESTINATION, and a MISSION OF REPRODUCTION (we cannot reproduce what happens below the water line of our awareness).   Takeaway: Common context creates common movement which creates common culture.   Action Step: Evaluate the context of your disciple making relationships.    Show Notes:   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Takeaway: Jesus' style matters because His style is to be our style.   Action Step: Discuss with the person you are in a DM relationship with: Do you engage Jesus as a true disciple would? Do you disciple others like Jesus would?    Show Notes:   Ray Vander Laan Practicing the Way - John Mark Comer   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Developing Appropriate Tension in a Disciple Making Relationship HOW: 1. Listen - For values, priorities, how time in being spent, beliefs about self and God  2. Ask Questions - About time with God, those they are discipling, inconsistencies/incongruences you hear. Places where they can do something/more to make a difference. 3. Walk them to the application. What are you going to do about it? What are you taking with you from our time today? Revisit those when you get back together.    Takeaway: If your disciple making relationship doesn't have dynamic tension in the relationship you'll end up stuck.    Action Step: Evaluate the level of the tension in the disciple making relationship, what tools do you need to start using?     Show Notes:   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Takeaway: Friendship and disciple making are not the same, but they may overlap. It's important to understand the difference!   Action Step: Evaluate your disciple making relationships and make sure you aren't stuck in the friend zone.     Show Notes:   Matthew 4:19 Luke 10:1   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast  

4 Things We Know God Does in Disciple Making:  Entrusts someone to us. (John 17:6,”I have revealed you to those you gave me out of the world. They were yours, but you gave them to me and they obeyed your every word.”)   Moves their heart. (Proverbs 21:1, “The king's Heart is in the hand of the Lord, He directs it like a watercourse wherever he pleases.)    Guides, Counsels, and Convicts from within through the Holy Spirit.  (John 14:26, “But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.” John 16:8, “...he will convict the world of sin and guilt in regard to sin, righteousness, and judgment.”)   Provides Growth.        ( 1 Cor. 3:5-6 What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe--as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.”)   2 Tim. 2:21 (“Those who cleanse themselves from the latter will be instruments for special purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.”)   Takeaway: The work of making disciple makers is one that God shares with us. He will occasionally do it on His own, but it's intended to be a collaborative work.   Action Step: Pray and Trust God to do His part in those you are discipling.    Show Notes: John 17:6, Prov. 21:1, John 14:26, John 16:8, 1 Cor. 3:5-6, 2 Tim. 2:21   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Takeaway: The person God wants you to disciple is someone you probably already know.   Action Step: Set an alarm on your phone for 10:02 am or pm (from Luke 10:2, “the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few) as a reminder to pray for your oikos map -Believers who need to be discipled -People far from God in your life    Show Notes:   Luke 10:1-11 John 17:20 Acts 17:26-27   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Takeaway: Finding someone to disciple takes intentional prayer and discernment.     Action Step: Pray about who in your life is ready to be discipled, then make a list of a couple of names that you can begin praying over.     Show Notes: Luke 16:10, 2 Tim. 2:2   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

So excited to kick off season four of the podcast!    Vision, Heart, and Skill in DM.  Several Series: Finding someone to disciple, DM Pathway, Bicycle Illustration, Jesus' Way of DM.     Show Notes:   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast  

Justin and Tony discuss four important truths to help church leaders build a disciple making culture. Towards the end, they are joined by Pastor Mike Tuttle as he shares about the difference a disciple making culture is making at his church.   Show Notes:   Watch Episode on YouTube   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

Check out this bonus episode with Tony on the Disciple Dilemma.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QsVjRKKbOg   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Going small helps us go big!   Takeaway: If you want to reach the world, reach your neighbor.   Action Step:   Who is the ONE PERSON you can add to your funnel?    Show Notes: The Disciple Making Difference Illustration   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

Perfect for: Disciples who get distracted by the demands of life. Takeaway: Don't lose sight of the people Jesus had His sights set on.   Action Step: Identify your non-Christian friends and begin to pray for which relationship can go deeper. Read the article!   Show Notes: Who Cares - General William Booth Luke 19:10 Parable of the Sower   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

  Holiness in Disciple Making is important because it Impacts our:    1. Motivation - Who we are and thus WHY we do.   2. Vision - How we see   3. Reflection - How others see Jesus. Takeaway: You are the chosen instrument by God. How useful you are to do the work correlates to your holiness. Action Step: Seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness.      Show Notes:   Matt. 6:33 2 Corinthians 6:15-18 2 Tim. 2:19-24 2 Corinthians 7:1 Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

Perfect for: Anyone who is or has been confused about the difference between shepherding and disciple making.    Takeaway: Shepherding and disciple making are not the same.   Action Step: “Take some time to evaluate your ministry and ask the question, am I shepherding people or am I making disciples.”      Show Notes: https://www.justingravitt.com/blog/shepherding-vs-disciplemaking John 10:11, John 21:15-17, Hosea 13:6, Psalm 23, Luke 19:10   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

In this episode, we explore the Serving/Training Illustration!  Takeaway: Jesus spent most of His time, focus, and energy training, but He often did it in the context of serving.   Action Step: Take a look at how you use your time, focus, and energy. Does it look like Jesus?    Show Notes: Serving Training Illustration - Downloadable   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

This episode is perfect for someone in or leading culture!  Vision Division Jesus observed that a house divided against itself cannot stand (Matt. 12:25). Unhealthy cultures have division over the vision. When people disagree on the desired destination they are unable to see a shared future. The lack of a common vision and shared future can give birth to every other symptom on this list.    2. Relational Isolation The lack of relational depth and connection contributes to people thinking ME instead of WE. When individuals care more about themselves than the mission, their culture feels prickly. Such cultures choose to regulate rather than relate.   3. Communication Chaos Secrecy, gossip, poorly addressed or unaddressed conflict, and debate about what's factually true are great examples of communication chaos. There are also well-known elephants and sacred cows around every corner that aren't discussed or acknowledged. Communication symptoms take many forms, but each one leaves individuals feeling unsafe and vulnerable. At its worst communication chaos leads to a lack of trust and cycles of conflict.   4. Act, Don't Ask Instead of a culture that invites cooperation and co-creation, unhealthy cultures draw bold lines between the leaders and the led. Leadership isn't interested in robust dialogue, discussion, or co-creation. Instead their focus is to get people to act and submit to the plan. Some contexts call for such leadership (a battlefield, natural disasters, etc.) Normally though, such cultures suffocate and inhibit personal development. Often such cultures see individual development as a threat to output. Potential is secondary to production 5. Affinity Based Authority marked by leadership being transitioned from one to the next based on personal affinity rather than performance. In such cultures, character and fruitfulness are secondary to current leadership's similarity and relational connection to future leadership. When authority is affinity-based rather than earned, it leads to inauthentic styles of relating.   Takeaway: Culture is what most people do most of the time. Unhealthy culture will infect the movement you are trying to lead.  Action Step: Do a cultural check-up to examine these aspects of culture and look for symptoms that indicate bigger problems.      Show Notes: https://www.justingravitt.com/blog/5symptoms-unhealthyculture   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

  Right Theology leads to Right Living   1 Tim. 4:16, “Watch your life and your doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do you will save both yourself and your hearers.”       Community keeps us from being deceived…   Takeaway: On their own, doctrine and doing are dangerous. Healthy disciples need both doctrine and application to become like Jesus.   Action Step: Watch your life and doctrine closely AND invite others to keep watch with you!    Show Notes: James 1:22 1 Cor. 8:1-3 Matthew 7:22-23 Proverbs 19:2 1 Tim. 4:16   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast   

Perfect for: Anyone who is or has been confused about the difference between accountability and disciple making.    Takeaway:  Accountability and disciple making are not the same. Action Step: Take some time to evaluate your disciple making relationship and ask the question, am I making disciples or just doing accountability?      Show Notes: https://www.justingravitt.com/blog/accountability-disciplemaking   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast   

In this episode, Tony and Justin explore one of the best tools in a disciple makers toolbox - how to ask good questions!    Takeaway: We can't make disciples like Jesus did if we don't use questions like Jesus did.   Action Step: Develop some regular questions that will help you as you make disciples    Show Notes:   Luke 2:46-47 Mark 8:27-30   Tony's Book   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast   

Perfect for: Anyone who struggles with the sin in their life.   Takeaway: God's grace is big enough to cover the gap between what you know you should do and what you actually do.   That gap should still be    Action Step: Spend some time thinking about the progress you've made in obedience over the past year. Then praise God for His grace to you!   Show Notes: Grace Gap Illustration - Downloadable link 1 Corinthians 15:9-10 Ephesians 3:8 1 Timothy 1:15-16   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

Takeaway: Mature disciples always move towards obedience that's driven by surrender.   Action Step: Reflect and identify which level of obedience best describes your walk with Jesus.      Show Notes: https://www.justingravitt.com/blog/5-levels-obedience Jeremiah 10:23   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries

Perfect for: Anyone who is or has been confused about the difference between coaching and disciple making.    Coaching is non-directive, but disciple making is directive.     Disciple making however is directive, but don't mistake directive with inflexible. Disciple makers are experts/models for what it means to follow Jesus. A disciplee is someone who recognizes his need to learn from the discipler.  Disciple making requires faithfulness to Jesus, coaching requires faithfulness to a process.     A discipler can't develop someone further than she's developed. She must not only be a maturing disciple, she must also know how to help another become a maturing disciple.     Coaching however depends on the process of listening and inquiry. This allows a coach to coach doctors without being a doctor or lawyers without being a lawyer. Coaching assumes you know what you need to know, disciple making assumes you don't.     Disciple making assumes you know some things and don't know others.   Coaching is primarily self-focused, but disciple making is primarily others centered.      Disciple making relationships begin because the discipler wants to help another grow to maturity.   Takeaway: Coaching and disciple making are not the same.   Action Step: “Take some time to evaluate your disciple making relationship and ask the question, am I coaching or am I making disciples.”      Show Notes: https://www.justingravitt.com/blog/coaching-disciplemaking   Luke 6:40, Matthew 4:19, 1 Cor. 11:1   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

This episode is perfect for anyone who wants to see movement in their church or in their life!    Takeaway: God's movements start with our surrender.   Action Step: Go home draw a circle around yourself, get on your knees, and don't leave until He answers.     Show Notes: Hosea 13:6 Matthew 4:17 Acts 1:1-8 2 Chronicles 36:22-23 Proverbs 3:5-6 Gypsy Smith   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

In this episode, we talk about devotionals and time with the Lord.    Takeaway: It's ok to eat differently from others. Action Step: Commit to daily nourishment.    Show Notes: www.instagram.com/navigatorchurch Matthew 6:33, Heb. 11:6  Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

This Episode on Youtube   Justin joins Dennis Allen to discuss “Leaders as Disciples,” which focuses on how church leaders can turn the tide of disciple making in their local church.   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

Perfect for: Anyone who wants to get a firm grasp on the word of God.   Takeaway: Get a firm grasp on the word of God. Action Step: Memorize the Hand and teach it to 2 others.   Show Notes: Matthew 13:19, Rom. 10:17, Rev. 1:3, Acts 17:11, Ps. 119:9-11, Ps. 1:2-3, James 1:22 2 Timothy 3:16-17   https://www.navigators.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/navigators-the-word-hand.pdf   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast   

Takeaway: Every disciple of Jesus is a Christian, but not every Christian is a disciple. Disciples are willing to follow.   Action Step: Consider your language because it will impact your culture!    Show Notes: https://www.justingravitt.com/blog/christian-disciple   Acts 11:26, Matthew 4:19   Bill Hull Books on this topic: The Discipleship Gospel and Conversion & Discipleship    Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

Perfect for: Any disciple maker who is wondering what to do in your first disciple making meeting.   Takeaway: Every first meeting is the first meeting with that disciple. So prayerfully plan what you will do. Action Step: Write down an ideal plan that you can adapt for your next first meeting.      Show Notes:   S1. Ep. 11 “How to Invite Someone into a Disciple Making Relationship?” S2. Ep. 25 “The Wheel Illustration: Where the Rubber Meets the Road”   https://www.justingravitt.com/blog/whattodo-disciple   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

Ever wonder what to say when you are trying to tell God's story in your life?  We talk about the importance of stories, life on life, and so much more!  Takeaway: God wants to express His truth in your stories.    Action Step: Write out a story from the last week or two where God has impacted your life. Share it with a friend.     Show Notes:   S.2 Ep.8 Why Your Testimony Isn't Enough   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

Tools are helpful when we know them, own them, and share them. This is important because a guide is different from a program. Tools are contextual, they are applied for specific purposes. They do some things well and others not-so-well.   THE  Disciple maker's Loop –   a tool to help them stay focused in disciple making. Teach him what, Tony Tell him why, Justin show him how,  get him started,  keep him going,  help him pass it on.   Takeaway: The DM Loop is a pocket-sized guide to helps you stay focused in disciple making. Action Step: Memorize the tool and teach it to 2 others.      Show Notes: https://www.justingravitt.com/blog/disciplemakers-loop   Enter NCM Church Coaching Contest   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

Perfect for: Someone seeking more clarity around disciple making. Leader or the everyday person who isn't clear on the difference between mentoring/disciple making.    Takeaway: Mentoring and disciple making are NOT the same. Mentoring is about helping someone reach their goals. DM is about helping reach Jesus' goals for them.   Action Step: Consider your language because it will impact your culture!   Show Notes:   https://www.justingravitt.com/blog/mentoring-disciplemaking https://www.justingravitt.com/blog/disciplemakers-offense-defense Matthew 4:19   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast   

This is the perfect episode to listen to if you're curious about what the future holds for the Practitioners' Podcast.   3 Seasons 3 Shelves:  Shelf #1: Season 1 was: Vision - Why, Growth Phases of a disciple, most needed for most people Shelf #2: Season 2 was: Culture, Consumerism, Engagement… Shelf #3: Season 3 WILL BE: Clarity of DM, Tools of a DM, super practical       Takeaway: Going to be a GREAT season. Action Step: Subscribe & share

In the final episode of the season, we sit down to talk about what it means to reflect the Father.    Takeaway:     Every Christian is called to reflect their Father. Action Step:     Identify how and where you reflect your Father and celebrate it with someone you disciple.   Show Notes: Galatians 3:26-29   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

What is the fruit of your disciple making ministry?    Takeaway: Jesus-style disciple making will always move out toward the lost, in towards the Church, and downward in the life of the individual believer. Action Step: Where are you positioning yourself to reach unbelievers? Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

Today's episode is all about the scalability of disciple making. In today's church culture answering the question of: Will it scale? Is super important.   Takeaway: Disciple making will always scale to the level of our faithfulness. Action Step: Evaluate your faithfulness in disciple making: Are you multiplying or just adding?    Show Notes: Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast     

Offense in disciple making is using vision, intentionality, and tools to ensure the disciple ends up as a unique skilled disciple maker. In offensive disciple making we have to make sure that the person we are discipling scores, not that I score. Takeaway: Skilled disciple makers have the vision, the intentionality, and the tools to play offense.  Action Step: Draw up a play and run it with the person you are discipling.   Show Notes: https://www.justingravitt.com/blog/disciplemakers-offense-defense https://www.justingravitt.com/blog/disciplemakingmap-expedition Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

Intentional disciple making requires offense and defense. Today, Tony and Justin embark on a two-part mini-series to talk about what offensive and defensive disciple making looks like in your intentional relationship.  Takeaway: Skilled disciple makers play defense by using life events to move people towards Christ.    Action Step: Find one defensive skill you can improve in your disciple making relationship.    Show Notes: https://www.justingravitt.com/blog/disciplemakers-offense-defense www.navigators.org   Justin's Website Tony's Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast