The Disciples Made Podcast

We are Disciples Made, and we multiply disciples that make the world a better place. We challenge every co-dependant disciple-making effort that keep disciples from truly being MADE. We honor, partner with, and promote leaders that release people into their masterpiece mission.

The Disciples Made Podcast is a religion podcast hosted by Disciples Made, with 91 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Disciples Made hosts The Disciples Made Podcast, a religion show with 91 episodes published.

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  Episode #4

  S6 Episode 3: The Power of Daily Habits (You Reproduce Who You Are)

  Sep 30, 202622 minS6

  What if the habits shaping your church are really the habits shaping you? In this episode of the Disciples Made Podcast, Jason Phelps and Brian Phipps unpack why disciple multiplication starts with the leader before it ever becomes a church strategy. They explore the difference between simply engaging Scripture and actually abiding with Jesus, why repeated practices shape who we become, and how personal rhythms eventually become cultural expectations. You’ll hear why sermon preparation is not the same as personal abiding, why leaders reproduce more through what they embody than what they explain, and how healthy disciple-making becomes reproducible when people learn to hear from Jesus, respond in obedience, and help others do the same. In this episode: • Why you reproduce who you are • How practices become habits and habits become rhythms • The difference between preparing from Scripture and abiding in Scripture • Why church leaders can spend time around the Bible without personally abiding with Jesus • How personal discipleship becomes church culture • Why preaching alone cannot create an abiding culture • What makes disciple-making reproducible • The question every leader should ask: What is my life currently reproducing? The goal is not to reproduce copies of ourselves. The goal is to help people develop rhythms of dependence on Jesus that form them into His likeness and equip them to help others do the same. This week, identify one rhythm Jesus may be asking you to strengthen—and start there. COMING SOON: BREAKING THE ADDITION ADDICTION This season of the Disciples Made Podcast is built around ideas from the upcoming book Breaking the Addition Addiction by Brian Phipps, Craig Watson, and Ed Wilgus. The book is being written for church leaders who want to move beyond simply adding more people, programs, and activity—and build cultures where disciples actually make and multiply disciples. Breaking the Addition Addiction is not available for purchase yet, but throughout this season we’ll be giving you an early look at the principles, stories, and practices behind the book. Learn more about Disciples Made and explore resources for disciple multiplication at disciplesmade.com . It’s time to break the addition addiction and start designing for multiplication.

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  Episode #3

  S6 Episode 2: Designing for Becoming

  Sep 23, 202622 minS6

  What happens at your church on Sunday morning? That question is usually easy to answer. But here’s the harder one: What is supposed to happen inside a person because they were there? In Episode 2 of Season 6, Brian Phipps and Jason Phelps unpack the difference between designing ministry for attendance and designing ministry for becoming. Worship services, classes, groups, student ministries, and serving opportunities can all accomplish their event objectives without necessarily accomplishing a formation objective. The deeper question is not simply, “Did people participate?” but, “Who are they becoming because they participated?” Brian and Jason explore the Disciples Made formation target: Character × Calling = Impact. Character is who we are becoming as Jesus forms His life in us. Calling is how we join Jesus in His work in the places and relationships where He has uniquely positioned us. When those grow together, disciples increasingly become people through whom Jesus impacts the world. In this episode, you’ll discover: • Why attendance and information are not the same as transformation • What makes an Intentional Disciple-Making Environment truly intentional • Why truth must move toward practice, obedience, reflection, and repetition • The difference between disconnected programs and a clear discipleship pathway • How the Explore → Develop → Influence pathway reflects the way Jesus formed His disciples Before your next leadership meeting, take your three most important ministry environments and ask: Who is this designed to serve? What are we hoping they become? How will we know transformation is happening? What is their next step? If you cannot answer those questions clearly, you may have an event—but not yet an intentional pathway. Learn more and explore resources for disciple multiplication at disciplesmade.com . Breaking the Addition Addiction is a Disciples Made podcast hosted by Brian Phipps and Jason Phelps.

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  S6 Episode 1: You Designed This… or Inherited It?

  Sep 18, 202624 minS6

  Vision Before Strategy Before Tactics You may not have designed the church you’re leading. But you can help shape what it becomes. Season 6, Designing for Multiplication, begins with a question every church leadership team needs to answer: What kind of person are we actually trying to form? Jason and Brian explore why choosing a curriculum, launching a program, or changing your groups can’t resolve an unclear vision. They lay out the order that guides intentional disciple-making: vision first, strategy second, tactics third. IN THIS EPISODE • Define the destination: Fully Alive disciples growing in both character and calling. • Explore the equation Character × Calling = Impact. • Learn why culture change begins with a few leaders experiencing transformation themselves. • Consider how Head, Heart, Hands, and Habits shape leader development. • Examine whether your calendar, budget, and staff time support the disciples you hope to form. YOUR NEXT STEP Take one sheet of paper and write three headings: • Vision: What kind of person are we trying to form? • Strategy: How are leaders becoming those people and helping others become them? • Tactics: Do our programs, calendar, budget, and staff time serve that strategy and vision? Bring those questions to your leadership team before redesigning anything. FIND CLARITY WITH MISSION MAPPING Need help finding clarity together? Mission Mapping helps your leadership team examine your current reality, clarify your disciple-making vision, and identify practical next steps. Explore Mission Mapping Follow the podcast for the rest of Designing for Multiplication. Next episode: the Intentional Disciple-Making Environments that help people grow.

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  Season 6 Trailer: Designing for Multiplication

  Sep 16, 202610 minS6

  What if your church is getting exactly the results it was designed to get? Every calendar, budget, leadership system, ministry environment, and scorecard is already producing something. The question is whether those systems are producing disciples who can make and multiply disciples. In this trailer, Jason Phelps and Brian Phipps introduce Season 6: Designing for Multiplication—a practical season for pastors and ministry leaders ready to move beyond diagnosing the problem and start intentionally designing for a different outcome. Because churches do not accidentally drift into multiplication. Multiplication must be designed for. This season will explore how leaders can build systems, environments, habits, pathways, and measurements that increasingly form people in both Christlike character and Kingdom calling—and help them reproduce that life in others. In This Trailer Jason and Brian preview conversations around: Why good intentions alone do not produce multiplication What your calendar, budget, and leadership systems reveal about what you truly value Designing for becoming, not merely attending Why leaders reproduce who they are The role of daily habits and abiding with Jesus in culture formation Moving from spiritual children to spiritual grandchildren and great-grandchildren The four-generation vision of 2 Timothy 2:2 The difference between an assimilation pathway and a disciple-making pathway Why churches need to measure spiritual vitality, calling, and multiplication—not only attendance and giving What makes a disciple-making system genuinely reproducible How leadership teams can begin mapping the shift from addition to multiplication The Big Idea You do not need to eliminate attendance, programs, preaching, serving, or church growth. But those things must ultimately serve the formation, mobilization, and multiplication of disciples. Multiplication cannot simply be added to the end of your existing system. It must be designed into the system from the beginning. If you are a pastor, executive leader, denominational leader, ministry leader, or someone helping shape disciple-making culture, this season is designed to help you answer the question: “We see the gap. What do we actually build now?” Follow the Disciples Made Podcast so you don’t miss Episode 1: You Designed This (...or Inherited It?) And if another pastor or leadership team is wrestling with how to move from addition toward multiplication, send them this trailer. It’s time to stop hoping multiplication happens. It’s time to design for it. It’s time to break the addition addiction.

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  Episode #74

  BONUS: The Power and Pace of Disciple Multiplication with Vick Green

  Jul 22, 202650 min

  Most church leaders want to see disciples multiply. But are they prepared for the patience, perseverance, and cultural change multiplication requires? In this bonus episode of the Disciples Made Podcast, Brian Phipps sits down with Vick Green, CEO of Replicate Ministries, for an honest conversation about what it takes to build a movement-ready church. Vick explains why leaders are often drawn to the power of multiplication but struggle to accept its pace. Multiplication begins slowly. It requires deep investment in a few people, long-term commitment, and the willingness to prioritize personal transformation over immediate activity. Brian and Vick also explore the tension between engagement and empowerment. Strategies that make it easier for people to attend, participate, and connect can be valuable—but when those same strategies are applied to disciple-making, they can unintentionally weaken the commitment, ownership, and maturity required for multiplication. In this episode: • The three elements of a movement-ready church • Why every movement is preceded by a season of readiness • Why multiplication moves at a different pace than traditional programming • The difference between activity and transformation • Engagement metrics versus empowerment metrics • Why incomplete scoreboards create incomplete disciples • How to distinguish timeless principles from contextual practices • Why collaboration matters more than organizational competition • How pastors can begin by investing deeply in a few people The invitation is not to abandon engagement. It is to ensure that engagement ultimately leads people toward transformation, ownership, mission, and disciple multiplication. TAKE THE NEXT STEP Begin with the free Disciple Multiplication Capacity Assessment. It will help you identify where your church is strong, where multiplication may be getting stuck, and what your next faithful step could be. Disciples Made is also offering 25 free Mission Mapping Calls for 25 churches. Complete the assessment, and our team will review your results and help you identify a clear, focused path for your church’s next season. Take the free assessment: https://disciplesmade.com/assessment LEARN MORE ABOUT REPLICATE MINISTRIES Discover more about Vick Green and Replicate Ministries, including resources designed to help churches build disciple-making cultures: https://replicate.org It’s time to break the addition addiction. Let's break it.

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