Walking In The Living Word

Welcome to WALKING IN THE LIVING WORD MINISTRIES; a weekly podcast with your host, Pastor Mike Futrell. Walking In the Living Word is committed to teaching, equipping, and mobilizing the Body of Christ through faithful teaching and the proclamation of God’s Word. Get ready to receive today as Pastor Mike Futrell inspires you on your journey of WALKING IN THE LIVING WORD....

Walking In The Living Word is a religion podcast hosted by Mike, with 62 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Week 11 The Kingdom Knights and Broader Church Foundation

  Aug 26, 202623 min

  As we look at this week's episode we will talk about how a discipleship framework serves the church best when it strengths the whole life of the congregation rather than becoming a silo of committed participants on the side. That is why we must think about broader church formation. Church hear me; if a tool helps a few people while the wider body remains shallow, disconnected, and spiritually undernourished, then something is still missing. The question is not merely whether a framework can run a successful cohort. The question is whether it can help a church become more fruitful, more prayerful, more repentant, more loving, more stable, and more useful in the hands of God over time. Ephesians 4:15-16 teaches that the whole body grows as it speaks the truth in love and as every part does its work under the headship of Christ. Understand the church does not manufacture her own life, invent her own identity, or sustain herself by human energy. Every grace that nourishes the body flows from the risen Lord. Christ gives truth to steady us, gifts to equip us, love to bind us and His Spirit to make obedience possible.

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  Week 10 The Kingdom Knights framework as a Practical discipleship Ministry

  Aug 19, 202624 min

  Main texts for Week 10 are Ephesians 6:10-18; 1 Peter 5:8; Corinthians 10:4-5; Psalm 139:23-24; Mark 10:45 and 2 Corinthians 5:20. I want to begin this week with honesty and a pastoral burden. So far in this series, we have talked about why discipleship matters, what a disciple is, why churches struggle, the model of Jesus, the Great Commission, the foundations of discipleship, the discipleship culture, relational disciple-making, and the need for intentional pathways. But now we have a practical question; what can help the church take all of those convictions and give them shape in a way people can actually remember, practice, and pass it on? That is where a practical framework can serve the church well. Not because a framework saves anyone. Not because a framework is the power of God. But because many believers need help moving from vague good intentions into concrete habits of obedience. I want to say that tenderly, because there are many sincere Christians who truly love the Lord, but they are weary, inconsistent, distracted, and unsure how to move forward. Please listen to this episode and I truly believe it will help you to understand and put handles on the areas of your walk that need help.

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  Week 9 Why the Church Needs an Intentional Disciple-Making Model

  Aug 12, 202618 min

  Welcome to Walking in the Living Word Ministries as we begin week 9. By this point in the series, one truth should be unmistakable; discipleship making cannot remain a vague hope or a secondary concern in the church. It requires intentionality. Church, please hear me carefully or you will miss the whole point of discipleship. If we leave discipleship undefined, unplanned, and unguarded, it will almost always drift to the margins. It will become something we affirm in principle but fail to pursue in practice. Jesus did not merely say, "Be spiritually helpful when you can." He said, "Make Disciples," and He tied that command to teaching people to obey all that He commanded in Matthew 28:18-20. An intentional disciple making model is not a substitute for the Holy Spirit. It is a humble attempt to organize church life around the very work Christ has command. Let me press the weight of that even further. The church is not only invited (commanded) to make disciples; the church is entrusted with the trusted with the stewardship od souls, doctrine, and spiritual formation under the lordship of Christ. Pastors and elders will answer to God for how they feed the flock, guarded the truth, and helped people to grow. If a church knows Christ has commanded maturity, holiness, and multiplication then that church musk ask in sober earnestness how it is actually helping people move in that direction.

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  Week 8 D-Groups, Small Groups, and One on One Discipleship

  Aug 5, 202622 min

  We have worked through 7 weeks of study and now we ask how does that work become personal and practical in everyday relationships under the authority of the local church. Again, this week, I want to say right at the beginning that this week matters as much as the last 7 if not more. The reason is that many believers sit under sound preaching and still remain spiritually isolated. They hear the truth, but nobody helps them apply it. They attend church, but they are not known closely enough to be encouraged when they are weak, warned when they drift, restored when they stumble, or strengthened when they are discouraged. Church, that should burden us because the New Testament assumes a kind of nearness among believers that makes exhortation, confession, burden bearing, and restoration possible. That is why D-Groups, small groups, and one on one discipleship can be such important gifts in the life of the church when they are healthy, biblical, theological, pastoral and rightly connected to the body of the church. They are not replacements for the gathering of the church. They are settings where the gathered church's teaching can become personal, accountable, pastoral and reproducible. These scriptures right here lead us into our study today Hebrews 3:12-14; Hebrews 10:24-25; Galatians 6:1-2; AND James 5:16. These scriptures commands assume proximity. They assume trust. They assume relationships close enough for truth to move beyond the general and into the particular. They assume a body of life where believers are not simply near one another in a room, but near enough to help one another follow Christ.

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  Week 7 Building A Discipleship Culture In The Local Church

  Jul 29, 202618 min

  And let me speak from my heart for a moment. One of the burdens I carry deeply is that many people sit in churches week after week and still do not feel truly known, truly shepherded, or truly helped in their walk with God. They may hear sermons, but nobody is helping them apply the truth. They may attend services, but nobody is walking with them through temptation, discouragement, family struggles, or spiritual confusion. And church, that ought to grieve us. Because the local church is meant to be more than a place people visit on a schedule. It is meant to be a spiritual family where truth is lived, burdens are shared, sin is confronted with love, and believers are helped to keep following Jesus in the real struggles of life. But now we must ask a very practical and searching question: how does a local church become a place where discipleship is not occasional, not peripheral, not limited to a program, but woven into the life of the body? In other words, how do we build a discipleship culture in the local church? Church, hear me: culture is deeper than programming. Culture is what a people repeatedly value, teach, model, expect, celebrate, and protect. Culture is what becomes normal. So if discipleship is going to shape a congregation, it cannot remain a side ministry for a few especially interested people. It must become part of the atmosphere of the church. It must be heard from the pulpit, practiced in relationships, expected in membership, and embodied in leadership. If discipleship is not cultural, it will eventually become optional. And if it becomes optional, it will eventually become marginal. And I want to say this carefully, but plainly: if all we do is gather people, preach at them, and send them back out without ever helping them grow in relationships of truth, prayer, and accountability, then we should not be surprised when believers remain weak and churches remain shallow. My heart is that our churches would become places where people are not just counted, but cared for; not just welcomed, but discipled; not just inspired for a moment, but strengthened for a lifetime of following Christ. That kind of church does not happen automatically. It must be prayed for, taught, modeled, and protected.

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