The Movement Catalysts Podcast

Have you ever wondered if you could start or contribute to a movement? This podcast will give you actionable steps to help you find the right pathway for you to be part of a movement of God.

What if you knew precisely how to focus your ministry efforts for maximum fruitfulness? And what to deliberately neglect? Learn about the 10 factors that block movements, so you can do ministry with laser-sharp focus. #CPM #DMM #movements #catalyst

What if you knew precisely how to focus your ministry efforts for maximum fruitfulness? And what to deliberately neglect? Learn about the 11 factors that boost movements, so you can do ministry with laser-sharp focus.  #CPM #DMM #movements #catalyst

What if ministry fruitfulness did not depend on working more but on growing more? This blog will inspire you and boost your motivation to become more intentional about becoming a person God can use to start a movement. #CPM #DMM #movements #catalyst #leadershipdevelopment #johncmaxwell

Learn about the ministry strategy that most often leads to movement breakthrough. With practical self-coaching questions… #CPM #DMM #movements #catalyst #t4t #zume #davidgarrison #davidwatson

If people are not responding positively to the gospel you and your church are sharing, how much of that has to do with the message you share? This blog revisits the core of the gospel and shows how you can develop a message that appeals to those you want to reach.

If people are not responding positively to the gospel you and your church are sharing, how much of that has to do with the kind of message? This blog revisits the core of the gospel and shows how you can develop a message that appeals to those you want to reach.

If people are not responding positively to the gospel you and your church are sharing, how much of that has to do with the kind of message? This blog revisits the core of the gospel and shows how you can develop a message that appeals to those you want to reach.

To become a more empowering leader, honing your coaching skills is essential. In this blog I offer you a few simple yet powerful coaching questions and a framework helpful for any coaching conversation.

Do you sometimes feel you’re doing little? What if how faithful you are today with the “little” will determine how fruitful you’ll be tomorrow!? The journey of movement catalysts seems to indicate that: they were once faithful over little. Find out how faithful conscientiousness matters.

Feel disenchanted with ministry? Or at times even disillusioned? The mental map I share in this blog has helped me as well as those I have coached and trained to navigate the tensions we experience when pursuing high aspirations in ministry.

When sharing the Good News, before we have even opened our mouth, our listeners have already made judgements about us that greatly influence whether their response to our sharing will be positive or negative; whether they conclude it’s good news or bad news. It’s because the messenger is the message. So the question is: Are you good news?

What if your disciple-making was largely determined by your mindset? My research on the fruitful disciple-making of effective movement catalysts strongly suggests that this is indeed the case. Learn in this blog what kind of mindset enables you to produce mature disciples.

How much do you want to see a movement? It largely depends on your inner drive to achieve. That drive must be strong. Yet not too strong, as my research reveals. Learn how to strengthen your achievement drive while steering it well with your other ministry motivations.

Many people talk about Listening to God, but what is its place in the process of catalyzing a movement? What can we learn from the example of the most fruitful movement catalysts? Listen as Emanuel talks about their three best practices and gives insights into how you can put them into practice. 

What is the “greatest” commandment in movement ministry? Different thought leaders and different practitioners give different answers to this question. What would Jesus say? And what do we find in the lives of effective movement catalysts? Find an answer for your own ministry.

Involved in any sort of training? This formal assessment of movement training reveals a number of best practices that can make any training more transformational.

How important is obedience in those who go on to lead movements? Listen in as Emanuel discusses his findings in  relation to this important characteristic.

How do you communicate your vision for a movement effectively? Listen in as Emanuel explores this question and gives actionable insights that you can use immediately in your ministry.

Is it possible to want a movement too much? Listen in as Emanuel explores that question and challenges the desire of our heart.

Ever got part way through a project and wanted to give up? This month Emanuel explores the importance of persistance when it comes to movements and how we can grow in our ability to persevere.

In this episode Emanuel explores the importance of making disciples for a movement to grow and what needs to be reproducible in our ministry for us to see disciples being made effectively.

As a leader it is essential that we think about those coming up after us and how we can empower them to grow into all God has for them. This month Emanuel considers the best practises of catalysts around the world as they seek to empower their teams.

What does it mean to be a Radical Learner and is it possible to predict the effectiveness of a movement based on how radically a movement catalyst learns? Emmanuel explores these questions as well as providing actionable insights for your ministry to help you move towards becoming a Radical Learner in this months podcast. 

Feeling stuck or like the movement has plateaued? Listen in as Emanuel shares his insights on how to inject new life into your ministry.

Charisma is not something you are born with or without, it is something that you can grow in and in this month's blog Emanuel provides insight into how you can do that for the benefit of your ministry.

In this episode Emanuel discusses miracles and how essential they are for movement breakthrough. Listen in as he discusses the impact they can have and provides actionable ways in which you can have expectant faith for them.

Ever wondered how God's sovereignty and your input work together when it comes to starting movements? Well listen in as Emanuel explores this issue and provides some actionable insights for your ministry.

Emanuel explores how catalysts can be assertive in healthy ways and why that is important for catalyzing a movement.

This week Emanuel explores the competency of Influencing Others' Beliefs, he provides examples of how he has done this, some best practice tips and shares his practical method with you. Listen in to grow in your ability to influence the beliefs of those around you for the gospel. 

In this episode Emanuel explores the prayer life of movement catalysts and makes some surprising discoveries. Listen in as he explores whether the answer is in how much they pray or whether there is another factor at play. As always he provides practical steps to allow you to deepen your own prayer life and connection with the Father. 

Listen in as Emanuel describes how lack of openness to the gospel relates to movement breakthrough. He will show you ways forward when people appear not to be open to Jesus and discuss some realities from movements across the globe that will enable you to reassess your own situation.

Find out why Tangible Love is an essential part of catalysing a movement and how you can express it well in your ministry.

Unpacking how busyness can impede a movement, providing ways out of the problem and sharing proven steps to move from busyness to fruitfulness.

Listen to find out why I had to grow in boldness and how you can too.

Listen to discover the 6 factors that actually start movements and for implementation questions to help you put them into practice.

One quality that marks each and every person who has ever started a movement is what I call “Expectant Faith.” Every effective catalyst who has participated in my studies tells me that they exhibit this quality “frequently if not always.”

Is it the method that a catalyst uses or their own qualities that determine the success of a movement?

My new podcast offers actionable insights from groundbreaking research to movement practitioners like you. I hope this first issue will bolster your faith that God can start a movement ANYwhere and ANYtime. And God does so, irrespective of the receptivity of the people you are reaching, or their lack thereof. And irrespective of how long (or short) you and others have been reaching out to the people where you are ministering.