Making Disciples with Robby Gallaty

In this episode of the Making Disciples podcast, Chris and Robby take even more listener questions based on a recent e-mail survey. Links The Disciple-Making Pastor Discipleship Essentials Transforming Discipleship Growing Up Personal Discipleship Lifeway Leadership Podcast Network Group Answers Podcast Time Stamps 00:00: Introductions 02:00: Making Muscles with Robby Gallaty? 02:50: How do I get my pastor get onboard? 06:30: It’s not an add-on ministry 12:45: Top Down Approach 14:45: How do you get your people onboard?

In this episode of the Making Disciples podcast, Kandi Gallaty joins the show to talk about discipling your family. If you enjoy the show, please share it with your friends and rate it on Apple Podcasts. Links Lifeway Leadership Podcast Network Healthy Church Workshop Time Stamps 00:00: Introduction 02:25: What does discipleship in the family look like? 04:15: Teachable moments 05:15: Intentional time 09:10: Redeem your commute 09:50: Family D-Group 11:20: Failures and successes 12:55: Be consistent 13:50: You’re raising your grandkids 17:00: What gets cultivated gets replicated

In this week’s episode of the Making Disciples Podcast, Robby and Chris answer additional questions from listeners. Links EST.church Podcast Lifeway Leadership Podcast Network Growing Up Leader’s Guide 00:00: Introduction 01:10: Lifeway Leadership Podcast Network 02:54: Question 1: Can I do more than 1 group at a time? 09:25: The year of the super group 11:20: Question 2: Is Cherry Coke Zero better than Coke Zero 13:30: Replicate Cohort - January 2019 15:00: What happens if your group won’t multiply?

In this episode of the Making Disciples podcast, Robby Gallaty and Chris Swain take listener questions. Links Replicate Cohort - Annual Option Replicate Cohort - Monthly Option Ask Me Anything Podcast 00:00: Introduction 01:45: Question 1: How do we deal with challenging group members? 13:20: Lifeway Leadership Podcast Network 14:45: Question 2: What should we do if we keep running out of time? 22:30: Replicate Cohort 2019

In this episode of the Making Disciples podcast, Robby Gallaty and Chris Swain continue the discussion of the Discipleship Pathway. In this episode, they talk about “the crowd”. 00:00: What is “the crowd” 02:00: Why not start with the crowd? 02:45: Escalator Evangelism 04:15: Out the back door 06:00: Stop trying to grow your church 07:10: Outward focused and inward focused. 08:40: Start with your community 10:00: Biblical disciplemaking focuses evangelism and discipleship 11:00: Have you heard of the great commission? 12:15: When discipleship can be anything, discipleship is nothing 13:10: Define the terms 14:30: Changing the focus 16:15: Home Depot approach to ministry 17:40: Setting the goals 19:00: Next steps

In this episode of the Making Disciples podcast, Robby and Chris continue to look at the Discipleship Pathway. In this week, they look at the D-Group. 00:00: Multiplying from within 02:00: Two Pronged Approach 04:00: Paul and Timothy 06:00: Greenhouse for D-Groups 08:00: Karate Kid 12:00: The Basics 14:40: D-Harmony 18:00: The problem with being event-driven 19:30: How do you add discipleship to an existing schedule?

In this episode of the Making Disciples podcast, Chris and Robby continue the series on Discipleship Pathway. In this episode, they dive deeper with community. What are the differences between a community group and a discipleship group? 00:00: Introduction 02:30: Sermon based Life Groups 03:20: Replication through Life Groups 05:50: Gathering through scattering 08:00: Apply the information or it’s meaningless 08:45: Discipleship is the course of your life 10:45: We’re reaching lost people through Life Groups 12:20: Two categories of friends 13:30: People will come to an event, but won’t come back 17:00: Why do you need both?

In this episode of the Making Disciples podcast, Chris and Robby continue the discussion of the Discipleship Pathway by looking at the role of life group/community groups. Links Deliberate Simplicity: How the Church Does More by Doing Less 00:00: The Discipleship Pathway 03:00: The Journey 03:30: Community 06:00: How are you spending your time? 07:00: Do we get rid of Sunday School? 08:40: Pastors need to be in life groups 09:20: What is a community group? 11:30: How do you keep applying more and more information? 13:00: Moving from a lecture model to a circle model 15:55: One Pathway

In this episode, Chris and Robby continue the discussion on the Discipleship Pathway by looking at the “One Event” most churches have. Links Preaching for the Rest of Us: Essentials for Text-Driven Preaching Building a Healthy Home Sermon Spark Conference Discipleship Blueprint 00:00: The One Event 01:40: How Jesus spent His time 03:30: How to communicate the Word of God 05:50 What is an Expository sermon? 07:00: The Author’s Intended Meaning 10:00: The First 5 Minutes 13:00: Training up people 14:00: The Role of Preaching and Discipleship 17:40: Role of Invitation in Next Steps 20:00: Air Attack

In this episode, Chris and Robby begin a discussion about the Discipleship Pathway. Links The Discipleship Pathway 00:00: What is the Discipleship Pathway? 01:40: What is expository preaching? 03:10 The method of Jesus 05:00: The congregation 05:25: The three 06:55: The Pathway 09:00: The 2-pronged ministry approach 11:30: Benjamin Franklin story 13:00: Wesley’s Classes and Bands 16:25: Map vs Menu

In this episode, Chris and Robby work through how to sustain a discipleship movement in a church. 00:00: Home Depot Church 03:30: Season your sermon with discipleship 04:15: Preach sermons on discipleship 06:15: Maintaining ministries 08:00: NextSteps Area 09:30: Spiritual journey is a process (not a point) 11:45: Walking together 13:00: Ongoing long term training 15:00: Syncing your ground attack with air attack in discipleship 16:25: Celebrating wins and changing the scorecard 18:30: Where on the pathway are your recent baptisms?

In this episode, J.D. Greear joins Chris and Robby to discuss the future of the Southern Baptist Convention, church planting, equipping people, and more. Links J.D. Geear Ministries @J.D. Greear The Summit Church J. D. Greear Elected Youngest Southern Baptist President in Decades 80by20 00:00: Introductions 02:00: The Summit Church Strategy 03:15: Interview with Interns 04:05: Church planting done right takes care of discipleship 05:30: To call to be sent is instilled early 06:30: Reproducing small groups 06:50: Discipleship aimed just at education isn’t discipleship 07:40: Disciplemaking Task Force 09:40: It’s more than just making converts 11:00: The job doesn’t stop at evangelism 12:00: Healthy ministries grow deep and wide at the same time 14:00: Discipleship is informal 16:00: Plan A is the local church 17:00: We don’t need a new grand system 17:30: Community context 19:40: Baptism is the starting line

In this episode, Robby and Chris discuss why relying solely on non-Biblical curriculum for making disciples is wrong. Links Foundations/F260 Books - Replicate.org 01:30: Hitching your wagon to the Bible 3:30 Don’t throw out your curriculum just yet 05:00: 3 things that last for eternity 07:00: Secrets to the Christian life 07:25: Why we created the F260 10:00: How we created the F260 13:50: Always read more 17:00: Hearing from God 18:05: New version of Foundations

In this episode, Robby and Chris discuss the most important lead measure for spiritual growth. 02:00 Groups matter a lot 02:50 Bible engagement is the most important lead measure 03:30 What is Bible engagement? 05:00 People who engage the Bible are more evangelistic 07:00 Why D-groups matter 08:00 Unhurried time with the Lord 09:50 What is the highest form of worship 14:55 What is the greatest commandment?

In this episode, Robby and Chris discuss the Disciplemaking Taskforce Report with NAMB, lead measures, and the upcoming Spark conference. 00:30 How to lose 7 million people 01:00 Task Force Report 03:50 Falling Attendance 5:55 How did we lose 7 million people? 9:15: We forgot to grow people on the backend 11:10 How can we change for the future? 13:40 Spark conference Links 80by20 - Task Force Report Spark Conference

In this episode, Robby and Chris are joined by Gus Hernandez, Jr to discuss the role of text-driven preaching in discipleship. 1:35: How did Jesus use preaching in the discipleship process? 1:50: Discipleship Pathway 2:50: What is text-driven preaching? 3:40: Replicate Cohorts 5:20: Sermon driven life-group content 8:15: Informational transactions 11:20: What is expository preaching? 16:20: Teaching people to read the Bible for themselves 18:15: True Love Waits sermon 20:50: Sermon feedback loop Links @gushernandezjr @rgallaty @chrisswain73 Replicate Cohort Preaching for the Rest of Us: Essentials for Text-Driven Preaching

In this episode, Chris Swain and Robby discuss the biggest surprise when you start investing in people through discipling relationships. 01:15 Do you have 2 AM friends? 02:00 Staying on task with the F260 02:40 Accountability for Pastors 04:00 Why do pastors fall? 06:30 Do you want more evangelism in your church? 08:30 Discipleship isn’t about preparing another sermon 11:00 Accountability of reading the Bible Links F260 Bible Reading Plan What is a HEAR Journal?

In this episode, Chris and Robby discuss why disciplemaking isn’t working in some churches. 00:00: What is disciplemaking? 01:15: What is discipleship? 02:00: Discipleship is more than a class 03:00: Discipleship doesn’t happen by accident 03:30: Can you disciple an unbeliever? 06:00: Accountability is key 07:45: Replication is critical 09:00: Churches face difficulty in balancing evangelism and discipleship 11:30: How much are in you investing in evangelism vs discipleship with your budget? 15:00 Taking an inventory of the “success” of your big events 17:00 We’re preaching half the gospel 17:45 Do you need life-groups if you are doing D-Groups?

This week, we talk about how having a process for spiritual growth is key to having a healthy church. If you enjoy the show, please share it with your friends and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. 00:00 Making Disciples, Not Visitors 02:20 Do you have a spiritual process for maturing believers in your church? 03:40 The non-Discipleship Gospel 05:30 Jesus told his disciples to teach them to obey 07:00 We’ve left people to figure out Christianity on their own 09:00 We often compartmentalize our Christian lives 10:25 How are you mobilizing your people? 11:05 Three subtle shifts you can make 13:00 Consumerism to Co-Worker 14:35 Mr. Jimmy Story 17:40: Ministry is the pathway to maturity 18:40: Begin with the end in mind

This week, we talk about how to move your people through a process for spiritual growth. If you enjoy the show, please share it with your friends and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. 00:40: What does the word “disciple” actually mean? 1:00: Math-e-matics or Math-matics? 4:20: What are church onramps? 5:50: The goal of an onramp 7:13: The Discipleship Pathway 9:48: Church Offramps 16:00: How discipleship is beneficial to a believer 19:00: “Mathematics” pronunciation final ruling