Podcasts about kansas city underground

In this episode of the Kansas City Underground podcast, Brian and Cory interview Justin Nkundabagenzi from Rwanda, discussing his journey from experiencing the Rwandan genocide to becoming a mobilizer of disciple makers. The conversation explores the importance of prayer, the transition from traditional church models to disciple-making movements, and the current state of the movement in Rwanda, highlighting the significant growth and impact of ordinary people spreading the gospel. Justin emphasizes the need for dependence on the Holy Spirit and the importance of leadership development in sustaining the movement.

​​In this episode, Brian and Cory discuss the evolution of the Kansas City Underground, focusing on the six elements of movement DNA (mDNA) that were developed by Alan Hirsch. The mDNA has shaped and guided who we are as a network, though it's not something we always talk about. We explore the importance of paradigm shifts, the role of community, and the necessity of embodying the principles of disciple-making in everyday life. We take time to give you a high level introduction of (1) Jesus as Lord, (2) the missional incarnational impulse, (3) disciple-making ecosystems, (4) liminality and communitas (5) apostolic environments and (6) the need for organic systems that allow for growth and multiplication within the church.

In this episode, Cory and Brian interview three directors of the Fount Hub, Lori Roy, Amber Jackson, and Jay Cull. We're continuing on in our series of introducing the different Hubs of the Kansas City Underground, hearing their personal stories, the emergence of their Hub identity, and a few personal stories of what's happening within their part of the network. Amber, Jay, and Lori share about the importance of prayer and prophetic guidance within their Hub, and the distinctive way their microchurches have emerged and multiplied. They also highlight the rhythms and structures that support their Hub, emphasizing the importance of persons of peace relationships and shared experiences in their journey.

In this episode Brian and Cory intervew two of the directors of the Serve Hub, Sara Jackaway and Morgan Greer. This is the second interview featuring one of the ten Hubs that currently make up the Kansas City Underground. Sara and Morgan discuss their roles in disciple-making and community-building in Kansas City. They share personal stories, their transition from a predominant model church plant to becoming a Hub in the Underground, and the importance of collaboration and relationships in their mission.

In this episode, Brian and Cory take a yearly pause to invite you to partner financially with the Kansas City Underground, a network of disciple makers and microchurches dedicated to filling our city with the beauty, justice, and Good News of Jesus. We want to encourage you to visit kcunderground.org/tomorrow and check out the initiatives launching by the Hub Teams across Kansas City so that you can pray for these teams and consider how you might partner with us as we fund these new works. 

Rob Wegner, Director of the Kansas City Underground movement of microchurches, shares with us the surprises he has had in his journey of doing ministry differently over the past seven years. Rob explains how decentralization can promote innovation, and what we can do when the best ideas come from outside of us.  www.kcunderground.org / https://starfishinitiatives.com --- www.Dwellings.info

HCP - Ep. 210 - Rob Wegner (Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts)On this podcast, Larry and Drew welcome Rob Wegner. Rob is one of the Directors of the Kansas City Underground in KC, Kansas and is also the co-author of “Finding Your Place”. In his book, Rob helps believers discover their “masterpiece mission” from Eph. 2:10, so they can begin to walk in those good works Paul talks about. Rob breaks down how much like the G.P.S. in your car, God can help each of us triangulate our Gifts, Story and Passions to help us find where it is God wants to use us most effectively in ministry and mission for His glory. To check out Rob's book “Find Your Place” :https://www.amazon.com/Find-Your-Place-Locating-Passions/dp/0310100127/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1RZ00WV4H0ZQ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.TiVk8cNjK2NzWPh7WVE2KQ.uR01ORUwpuT-g5vkgLsO8zbZbbxUWxiAyuQ5nQKkX7A&dib_tag=se&keywords=find+your+place+rob+wegner&qid=1719888587&sprefix=find+your+place+rob+wegner%2Caps%2C200&sr=8-1To check out the free assessment tool Rob mentions on the Podcast go to:https://assessments.giftpassionstory.com/loginFor more on the Kansas City Underground:http://kcunderground.orgYou can email us at info@healthychurchpodcast.com orTo find more information about The Healthy Church Podcast go to:http://www.healthychurchpodcast.comor find us on FaceBook!For a video of today's podcast, you can find it on FaceBook or YouTube!

In this episode Brian, Cory, and Darryl Answer discuss the importance of coaching ordinary people within the context of New Community, a Hub within the Kansas City Underground. Darryl shares his background and the various roles he plays, including being a coach and a hub director. We talk about the challenges of coaching, such as finding time to connect and overcoming the mindset of waiting for permission. Darryl emphasizes the need for imagination and the role of a coach in helping people step back and see the bigger picture of what God is doing.

In this episode, Brian and Rob discuss the concept of building light agile structures within organizations and microchurches. We explore the importance of flexible grammar and the need for organizations to be willing to restructure in response to emergent practices. We introduce the concept of the Lightload Leader Starfish, which emphasizes the importance of organic systems and circle cells in building agile structures. We also discuss the Kansas City Underground as an example of embodying lightweight and agile systems. The conversation explores the themes of conflict resolution, network expansion, and organizational restructuring within the context of the Underground network. We also touch on the postures and skills needed for leaders in a decentralized structure, including humility, equality, and a co-laboring mindset.

Haley Miller and Cory Ozbun discuss the work of Zero Hour, the student arm of Kansas City Underground, in equipping high school students to live as disciple-makers in their schools. They emphasize the importance of focusing on the few to reach the many and the need for students to have a team and mentor to support them in their mission. They also highlight the unique challenges and opportunities of reaching the post-Christian generation and share stories of the fruit and transformation they have witnessed. The conversation concludes with a discussion on training camps and the importance of creating ecosystems for gospel saturation.Takeaways

Have you ever thought about doing church differently? Or felt the desire to try something different in your ministry, but didn't have the context for it? If so, today's episode is for you. In this Wednesday episode, we talk with Brian Johnson, Reproducing Churches Champion and integrator for NewThing, and leader in the Kansas City Underground, a microchurch network in KC. Robert and Brian discuss the importance of empathy and support in dealing with tragedies and collective emotions, church expansion, spiritual practices, microchurch networks, coaching pathways, future projects, and the way of Jesus. Just a few nuggets of wisdom in this jam-packed episode! Listen in! Find more from the Church Planter Podcast on instagram @churchplanterpodcast, on Facebook at Church Planter Podcast, and twitter @cPlanterPodcast. To learn more about the Kansas City Underground, click here. To learn more about NewThing, click here. For information on the Microchurch Conference, click here. Mentioned in this episode:This episode was brought to you by ChurchWebBuilder. If you've been meaning to scrap your terrible Wordpress church website, or you just need to actually sit down and make your church plants' website, let this be a sign to you. With CWB's library of church specific templates and integrations, and the included all-in-one marketing and communication platform, a beautiful new website is literally sitting there, waiting for you to take it. Go to www.churchwebbuilder.io and use the code PLANTER at checkout. You'll get 50% off your entire first year.

In this episode you'll meet Cory and Suz Ozbun who live and serve in the Kansas City area. Cory serves as a catalyst, mobilizer, and trainer, and Suz is a full-time Family Medicine Physician. The Ozbuns are passionate about seeing new disciples and spiritual families emerge in every neighborhood and network in their city. In addition to hosting a microchurch with their own neighbors and friends, Cory and Suz helped launch the Kansas City Underground in 2018, a network of reproducing disciples and microchurches throughout the KC metro. To learn more about the KC Underground click here.

Rob Wegner, founder of the Kansas City Underground, is our special guest today, bringing a powerful testimony and teaching on living God's mission.

Rob Wegner, founder of the Kansas City Underground, is our special guest today, bringing a powerful testimony and teaching on living God's mission.

Today we wanted to invite you to consider financially partnering with the Kansas City Underground. This is not something that we have made a practice with this podcast, nor will we regularly do this into the future. We did want to take this moment, this year, to invite you to consider a one-time or recurring gift to the KC Underground on Giving Tuesday. Thanks for your continued support for the work we're doing to multiply disciples in this city and beyond. 

Cory and Brian set up the second observation from the Two Four Eight research on disciple-making movements in urban contexts: Emphasize Affinity Group Engagement in Cities. This is a topic we are passionate about in the Kansas City Underground. Our focus comes primarily through an emphasis on discovering your masterpiece mission. We always ask, "To whom have you already been sent?" and "Where do you have a reason to exist?"

Welcome to Keeping It Simple Season 3 Episode 16 with our good friend Rob Wegner of the Kansas City Underground. The Kansas City Underground is a micro church network and disciple making movement in Kansas City that seeks to fill Kansas City with the beauty, justice, and good news of Jesus. Additionally, Rob works for NewThing and Leadership Network. Rob is a husband and a father who desires to see disciple making movements emerge in North America. Rob co-authored The Starfish and the Spirit (check out Season 1: Episode 16 for a full interview on the book). In this episode, Luis sat down with Rob to discuss global trends in the micro church world and specifically in the United States of America. Rob has years of experience living on mission and training other believers to live the gospel incarnationally in their everyday life. This episode is worth the listen, get a pen and paper out or open up your phone notes section, there is wisdom in what Rob has to say. To learn more about Rob and his work, click the links he mentioned toward the end of the episode (32:02). https://newthing.org/ https://leadnet.org/microchurch-next/ https://saturatetheworld.com/ https://www.bravecities.com/ https://www.undergroundnetwork.org/ ⁠https://churchprojectnetwork.com/⁠ https://kcunderground.org/ Thank you for listening! Please like, share, and subscribe to Keeping It Simple. To be in contact with us please email media@simplechurchcollective.com or visit simplechurchcollective.com for more information! Stay tuned for more episodes!  Music produced by Jesse Calentine, find him on Instagram: @Jessecalentine

This is the final week of our miniseries with Darryl Answer, one of the directors of New Community, a Hub of the Kansas City Underground. This miniseries focuses on the 4Ps of spiritual family. These practices help us live with greater incarnational intentionality. In this final episode, we'll focus on People. The question we ask with People is, "Who will go with you?" This episode not only explores how we build teams, but we'll also look at how all of these Ps can inform the way we live at a micro and macro level. "Jesus never wanted us to do life in isolation."

We are in week three of a miniseries with Darryl Answer, one of the directors of New Community, a Hub of the Kansas City Underground. This miniseries focuses on the 4Ps of spiritual family. These practices help us live with greater incarnational intentionality. In this third episode, we'll focus on Place. The question we ask with Place is, "Where has God placed you?"

We are in week two of a miniseries with Darryl Answer, one of the directors of New Community, a Hub of the Kansas City Underground. This miniseries focuses on the 4Ps of spiritual family. These practices help us live with greater incarnational intentionality. In this second episode, we'll focus on Purpose. The question we ask with Purpose is, "What has God given you?"    "Every person has been created in the image of God, so every person has a purpose."

This week begins a four-part interview with Darryl Answer, one of the directors of New Community, a Hub of the Kansas City Underground. The 4Ps are practices that help us live with greater incarnational intentionality. In this first episode, we'll do a high-level overview of the 4Ps and get into Prayer. The question we ask with Prayer is, "What is God saying to you?" Darryl will share how this framework has influenced their larger spiritual family and guides the way they live in and love well the East Side of Kansas City.   "Prayer is the activity to go to that feeds every other thing we do." 

Rob Wegner, leader of the Kansas City Underground, brings a fire hose of energy to the studio to ignite our hearts for reimagining the Church as a missional movement and encouraging us toward carrying a lighter load that will yield greater impact.

Welcome to Season 3: Episode 2 of Keeping It Simple. This season our focus is on the everyday person on mission. We will have interviews with different practitioners, especially normal people living and leading in the micro church space. In this episode, Scott and Luis interview Ashley Barnett of the Kansas City Underground. Ashley helps lead a micro church amongst the homeless population in Kansas City. Ashley is a person who loves to serve and see God move in places that other people may not go. She desires to live every day representing Isaiah 58. This is a great interview with an everyday person following the call of Jesus on their life. Enjoy the episode! Stay tuned for more episodes to come! Please like, share, and subscribe to Keeping It Simple. To contact us, please email media@simplechurchcollective.com or visit simplechurchcollective.com Music produced by Jesse Calentine, find him on Instagram: @Jessecalentine

In this episode, Cory and Brian interview David and Cheryl Johnson. David and Cheryl are founding members of the Kansas City Underground. They are disciple-making and microchurch leaders in a couple of different contexts from neighborhoods to the state prison. We'll talk through why this paradigm is so important to them, how their microchurches have emerged, and the real stories that have shaped these extended spiritual families. Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

Cory and Brian talk through the definition of a microchurch for the Kansas City Underground. We say that the KC Underground is a network of missionaries and microchurches, but what do we mean by that. In this episode we'll talk about the biblical foundations for microchurches, what we mean when we use the word, and what we don't mean. Over the next few weeks, we'll hear from local microchurch leaders to see how our definition is fleshed out on the ground. "There's no such thing as church planting in the New Testament. There's disciple-making that leads to the church emerging in new contexts." Cory Ozbun Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

Kansas City, MO: Eddie was at the Kansas City Underground races last weekend, he gives his recap!

There is a lot of confusion about how to find and engage with spiritually interested people in our unique western culture. In this episode, Jeremy and Joe interview Brian and Cory from Kansas City Underground and discuss how to find spiritually hungry people in our affinity-based culture in the U.S. This episode is a teaching from our coaching intensive, "Made For Mission". To learn more about this coaching intensive, visit 1kh.org/madeformission For more resources, tools, and event info, visit 1kh.org To give to 1KH, click here

Cory, Cory, and Brian talk through an update with the Zero Hour Hub of the Kansas City Underground. This Hub is specifically engaging the next generation in disciple-making within the area high schools of Kansas City. We discuss what the Zero Hour team has learned over this last year, what's new, and where they're headed. "Gen Z is hungry to lead!" - Cory McElvain Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

Cory and Brian interview Matt Barnes, disciple-maker and microchurch leader in the Kansas City Underground. Sarah and Matt Barnes helped launch the KC Underground in 2019 and currently lead the elder task force, creating training for governing elders within the KC Underground network. Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

In this episode, Jeff Vanderstelt talks with Brian Johnson and Rob Wegner, leaders with the Kansas City Underground, about how they equip everyday people for disciple-making in everyday life leading to MicroChurch expressions so that all of Kansas City will one day be filled with the presence of Jesus.

Cory and Brian spend a third week with Chris Caputo, the director of Relational Wholeness within the Kansas City Underground. This week is all about partnering with the Holy Spirit in Gospel Movements. "Wherever the gospel goes there are signs and wonders. Some are dramatic, some are mundane. We believe in a full gospel demonstration and gospel proclamation. Sometimes the demonstration is the proclamation." Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

Cory and Brian interview Chris Caputo, the director of Relational Wholeness within the Kansas City Underground. We continue the conversation around the importance of the prophetic within disciple-making movements, specifically the need for emotional maturity. Chris explains why the relational wholeness team exists and how they serve leaders in the city and around the country. For more information go to https://heseddiscipleshipnetwork.com/ Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

Cory and Brian interview Chris Caputo, the director of Relational Wholeness within the Kansas City Underground. In this episode we explore the role of the prophetic within the fivefold. Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

Cory and Brian interview Rick and Alice Bush who are missionary leaders with the Kansas City Underground. While serving with the Share the Hope community, Jesus invited them into a new context with the homeless community in Kansas City. Rick and Alice don't just "do ministry for" the people to whom they've been sent. They do ministry with the people in their context. They followed the Missionary Pathway and have seen a microchurch emerge. Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

Welcome to Season Two: Episode 27. In this episode, our great friend, Brian Johnson, area director of the Kansas City (KC) Underground rejoins to help close the apest series. The apest series is based on Ephesians 4:11-12, "11 And he [Jesus] gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ" (ESV). Apest is an acronym for apostle, prophet, evangelist, shepherd, and teacher. In this episode, Brian introduces the idea of voice order, an idea from the book "5 Voices" by Jeremie Kubicek and Steve Cockram. Voice order is an extra-biblical idea that might help shape leadership structures and organizations to work together for the highest fullness of each person. 5 voices to apest: nurturer to shepherd, guardian to teacher, connector to evangelist, creative to prophet, and pioneer to apostle. You can find the book "5 Voices" by Jeremie Kubicek and Steve Cockram on amazon or any major retailer. You can follow Brian Johnson and the Kansas City Underground at https://www.kcunderground.org/ or on social media @kcunderground Thank you for listening! Please like, share, and subscribe to Keeping It Simple. To contact us, please email media@simplechurchcollective.com or visit simplechurchcollective.com and stay tuned for more episodes! Music produced by Jesse Calentine, find him on Instagram: @Jessecalentine

Welcome to Season Two: Episode 25, we are in the midst of our apest series based on Ephesians 4:11-12, "11 And he [Jesus] gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ" (ESV). Apest is an acronym for apostle, prophet, evangelist, shepherd, and teacher. This week's episode is about the S, the shepherd. Scott and Luis had the joy of interviewing Bre Wiebe of the Kansas City Underground! Breanna Wiebe serves as one of the founders and directors of the Kansas City Underground, a mission agency and decentralized network of missionaries and microchurches in Kansas City. KCU's forty-year vision is to have a missionary on every street and a microchurch in every network of relationships, connecting with training Hubs throughout the city, saturating Kansas City with the beauty, justice, and Good News of Jesus. Breanna's primary role is to multiply and equip coaches for missionaries and microchurches within the KC Underground network. Her other passion is supporting adults with special needs in their community-based employment in her co-vocation with WillowTree Supports in Shawnee, Kansas. Breanna and Ryan live as missionaries with their two kids in their neighborhood, seeking to build an extended spiritual family there. You can contact Bre at breannawiebe@kcunderground.org or follow the Kansas City Underground at KCunderground.org We hope you enjoy this episode and the apest series in an effort to build up the body of Christ in the Greater Seattle Area. Here is a resource to learn more about your apest giftings: fivefoldministry.com Thank you for listening! Please like, share, and subscribe to Keeping It Simple. To be in contact with us please email media@simplechurchcollective.com or visit simplechurchcollective.com and stay tuned for more episodes on the APEST. Music produced by Jesse Calentine, find him on Instagram: @Jessecalentine

Welcome to Season Two: Episode 21! We are beginning a new series on the apest. Apest stands for apostle, prophet, evangelist, shepherd, and teacher. The concept of the apest is based on Ephesians 4:11-12 which says, "11 And he [Jesus] gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ" (ESV). This series will help define the team structure of the Simple Church Collective. Brian is one of the Kansas City local directors who started the Kansas City Underground. The Kansas City (KC) Underground is one of the major influences of the Simple Church Collective. During this episode, Scott, Luis, and Brian discussed each gifting the apest. What are the strengths? How do we see the giftings in the scope of a team? What does it mean to be prophetic? We did not answer all of these at this time, but we started the conversation on each gifting. We hope this frames the conversation for the episodes to come. Stay tuned for the particular gifting(s) that resonate with you or give you insight into other people! Here are resources from the episode: https://5qcentral.com/tests/ https://www.kcunderground.org/ Thank you for listening! Please like, share, and subscribe to Keeping It Simple. To be in contact with us please email media@simplechurchcollective.com or visit simplechurchcollective.com and stay tuned for more episodes on the APEST. Music produced by Jesse Calentine, find him on Instagram: @Jessecalentine

In 2019, about 80 followers of Jesus left the prevailing church structures to be the seeds for a grassroots movement in Kansas City.  They believe God's people are made for more.  It is the birthright of every child of God to be a loving missionary and disciple-maker where they live,  work, learn and play. Their aim was to plant the gospel in networks of relationships across the city, see disciples made and witness the church emerge in new contexts. At KC Underground, they function with a two-entity structure, a mission agency and a network of microchurches. The mission agency equips everyday people to be loving missionaries and effective disciple-makers in new contexts. As new disciples are made in a new context, a microchurch emerges.  Microchurches are extended spiritual families, that live in everyday gospel community, they're led by ordinary people, not paid professionals, and they own the mission of Jesus in their network. For some, this is a very specific pocket of people or corner of culture. For other, this is a geographic network of relationships often defined as a neighborhood. Listen to Episode 15 of the podcast and access the show notes below. Future Church Insights: 1. Rob explains “microchurch” Rob says that a microchurch is a spiritual family led by “ordinary people who live in everyday gospel community and own the mission of Jesus in a network of relationships.”  2. Rob talks about the way they structure KC Underground: Rob talks about “Hubs” – an equipping team – and how those team then include teams of people. For example, he mentions the “Personal Discovery” team that help others to discover their personal calling. He also talks about Startup Coaching, the seven week pathway, financial services and the ongoing coaching they provide micro churches. 3. Rob speaks to the differences in a traditional model and what KC Underground is doing First, he talks about planting the gospel where people currently are, not extracting them out for a professional sermon or service. Then he talks about discipleship and evangelism coming out of relationships that have already been built and established. Finally, he speaks about seeing every person as a disciple maker. Goals and Desired Outcomes of KC Underground The activation of a new Hub in north Kansas City Kansas that is focused on gospel saturation among all the ethnic groups in our city (90+). This particular part of the city has great diversity in ethnicity in a relatively small geographic region of the city. A Kingdom breakthrough here would be a microcosm of the coming Kingdom, where every tribe, tongue and nation is gathered into the global family of God. The activation of a new Hub in the heart of Kansas City Missouri, a few blocks from Troost Avenue. Historically, Troost Avenue has been a racial dividing line in Kansas City. A Kingdom breakthrough here would speak a story of Hope to our whole city. The activation of new missionaries, new Discovery Bible Studies, new disciples, and new microchurches in those two regions of the city. We are intentionally pursuing a full embodiment of all of Expo's key frameworks. The Kansas City Underground is pioneering a sustainable and multiplicative approach to Gospel Saturation in a city via mobilizing all of God's people God's way as missionary disciple-makers in every sector of society who are living out their Masterpiece Mission. Therefore, we are likely a particularly interesting case study for the Expo community, as we are boots on the ground. Links:  www.kcunderground.org More of a reader? Download the transcription here. Key Quotes from the episode from Rob Wegner: “Jesus said Go, but most churches are built around Come.” (21:06) “I think the other main thing is instead of seeing people as volunteers, attenders, inviters, members, you need to look at every single person and go, they're a disciple maker.” (24:02) “It's not actually less meetings, it's life together.

Today on the Interview, we have the opportunity to talk with Lance Ford and Rob Wegner and their new book, “The Starfish and the Spirit”. The conversation takes us to power dynamics in the church, leadership structures and adult Snuggies. Lance is an author, church planter, coach and consultant and he has a passion to resource and equip churches and leaders as they develop lifestyles of living on mission. Rob is an author, pastor and is one of the founders of the Kansas City Underground. Check out their book at thestarfishandthespirit.com Also check out their podcast called The Starfish and The Church Theme song “Early Riser” By Night Owl Additional music “Worship” by Yung Kartz For more information about Forge America head to www.forgeamerica.com Feel free to contact us at: Brenna@forgeamerica.com Terry@forgeamerica.com Alan@forgeamerica.com

Today on the show we are talking to Brian Phipps. Brian Phipps is the founder and President of Disciples Made. Brian was the Next Steps (Disciple-Making) pastor at Westside Family Church for nine years where he developed Westside's discipleship and leadership development pathway in which the Disciples Made experiences were created. The Disciples Made experiences incorporate a disciple-making “operating system” Brian designed called the Intentional Disciple-Making Environment. Brian has consulted with many churches in developing their disciple-making process and currently leads multiple cohorts of church leaders in Kansas City. He's the author of the book, Find Your Place: Locating Your Calling Through Your Gifts, Passions, and Story, co-written with Rob Wegner. In addition to being a Next Steps pastor, Brian is also experienced as a church planter and senior pastor. Brian received his BA in Religious Studies from the University of South Carolina, and a Masters of Divinity and M.A. in Counseling from Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. Brian and Carol were married in 1994 and have three children, Hannah, Sam, and Caleb. Brian's passion is to empower every Christ follower to discover, develop, and optimize their character and calling so that they make the biggest IMPACT on the world for Jesus. You can connect with Brian at the disciples made website and on Twitter. We would love to hear what you think about today's episode! Find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. You can also watch today's episode over on our YouTube channel. Next week we talk to Rob Wegner of the Kansas City Underground and the author of 'The Starfish and the Spirit.'

This episode is an interview done by Joshua Johnson of All Nations in Kansas City. You can check out their podcast: Shifting Culture, here. Joshua interviews Rob about the Starfish and The Spirit concept and how it plays out practically with the Kansas City Underground.

In this episode Rob Wegner talks about reproducing disciples and micro churches with the aim of gospel saturation across an entire city. As we enter into conversation, Rob shares his story of growing up in an environment of disciple making. We come to the realization that as we put Jesus at the center, we die to ourselves, and embrace authentic community incredible things can happen!Rob Wegner serves as one of the founders and directors of the Kansas City Underground, a mission agency and decentralized network of missionaries and microchurches in Kansas City.  KCUG's forty vision is to have a missionary on every street and a microchurch in every network of relationships, connecting with training Hubs throughout the city, saturating Kansas City with the beauty,  justice, and Good News of Jesus.  Rob also serves on the leadership team of NewThing, helping churches form networks to pursue the Mission of Jesus together.  Rob is also an author, his latest books are Find Your Place: Discovering Your Calling Through Your Gifts, Passions, and Story (Zondervan),Brian Phipps and this theme book for Exponential 2019, Made For More, which he co-wrote with Todd Wilson. His next book is a collaborative work with NYT Bestselling author Ori Braffman, Alan Hirsch, and Lance Ford called The Starfish and The Spirit: Unleashing the Leadership Potential of Churches and Organizations.   Rob's wife, Michelle, and their three daughters, Maddie, Whitney, and Belle, own his heart completely.Rob's recommendations:www.maturityonmission.comDiscipleship That FitsThe MandalorianGo to www.shiftingculturepodcast.com to interact and donate. Every donation helps to produce more podcasts for you to enjoy.Follow on Facebook at www.facebook.com/shiftingculturepodcastSupport the show

Potentially, what can separate a Physical Church from a Digital-Only Church? The ability to disciple people to the point of getting them on-mission… to help them discover their personal mission? This is why I see a similarity between Microchurch Movements and Digital-Only Churches… because we have the opportunity to relationally scale digital to the place of helping find their personal mission. But how do we do that in the Microchurch space? Enter Rob Wegner, one of the leaders of Kansas City Underground and co-author of The Starfish and The Spirit, Rob has experience discipling, equipping and releasing people on Personal Mission across Kansas City. Let's lean in and learn what it looks like in Micro, and figure out how to apply this digitally. Complete Show Notes and Online Video Available at THECHURCH.DIGITAL --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thechurchdigital/message

In this episode, Ed is joined by Rob Wegner and Lance Ford, co-authors of the recent release The Starfish and the Spirit: Unleashing the Leadership Potential of Churches and Organizations, along with Alan Hirsch. As stated on Amazon, this book leverages "the metaphor Ori Brafman popularized in his NYT best-selling book, The Starfish and the Spider, Rob Wegner, Lance Ford, and Alan Hirsch show why the distributed structures of starfish organizations are uniquely fit to the church." Currently, Rob is one of the founders and directors of the Kansas City Underground, a mission agency and decentralized network of missionaries and microchurches in Kansas City. Lance is the co-founder of the Sentralized Conference in Kansas City.

Welcome to Keeping It Simple where we talk about life and mission in ways that are easy to understand. This week Scott and Luis interview a good friend of the Simple Church Collective, Brian Johnson of the Kansas City (KC) Underground! During the interview, we get to know Brian and the Kansas City Underground, one of our biggest supporters! Brian brings forth some challenges for the church in America. Do we live in such a way that our life is accessible to our neighbors or missional context? Do we filter everything through Jesus is Lord? Join us as we unpack these topics with Brian! This is a great conversation that you don't want to miss! Listen and leave a review! We would love to hear from you! Join us on our journey as we seek to plant Simple Churches in the Greater Seattle area, if you want to know more about the Simple Church Collective listen to episodes as they come out each week or email media@simplechurchcollective.com. Visit www.simplechurchcollective.com for more information and subscribe to weekly emails from our team! Enjoy the show!

This is one of the most productive podcast interviews in my short history of these attempts. Rob Wegner is a good friend and a super intellect. Better yet, he understands the way forward after the pandemic taught us all the fragility of church as we've known it since Constantine, and certainly the way it looked so long ago back in 2019.You'll laugh, and perhaps cry, through this interview.Cut the head off a spider and it dies - same result if you cut off a couple of legs.Cut two legs off a starfish and you get three starfish. Sever all five legs and you'll have six starfish. Every cell of the starfish has the ability to regenerate the entire animal. Cut the head off of the typical U.S. church and it dies or at least goes into a slump. We too often look more like spiders than the church Jesus planted. When the head of the church ascended to heaven he sent the Holy Spirit to live in each believer and every cluster where they gathered. When persecution dismembered the church it multiplied like parts of a starfish.Rob Wegner, Lance Ford and Alan Hirsch partnered, with the help of Ori Brafman who wrote the original Starfish and the Spider, to write this amazing challenge to us all to be more than we've imagined.Crucially appearing on the backside of COVID, even the timing of its release was God ordained--the book held up for two years with production delays. This book is perfect for leaders attempting to discern the way forward after the pandemic.For more, check the Kansas City Underground or scope out the book. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.