The Practitioners Podcast: Applying Jesus Style Disciple Making in Every Day Life

Takeaway: No one can mature for you.   Action Step: Pick one area of your spiritual life—and train it.    Show Notes:   Watch Us On YouTube  Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Follow2Lead Podcast

Takeaway: Disciple-making culture grows when people know the aim, have the skill, and take ownership.   Action Step: Ask where your church is weakest — clarity, training, or ownership — and start there.    Show Notes: Watch Us On YouTube  Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Follow2Lead Podcast

Takeaway: Depth in Scripture is not merely personal devotion — it is ministry preparation.   Action Step: Assess your Scripture engagement, is it sufficient to handle it skillfully with others?    Show Notes: Watch Us On YouTube  Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Follow2Lead Podcast

Takeaway: God calls us to suffering. Partnering w/ God as someone suffers is costly but not complicated.   Action Step: Pray and show up for the suffering you see in the world around you, and give thanks to God for the opportunity.     Show Notes: Watch Us On YouTube  Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Follow2Lead Podcast

Takeaway: One on two builds shared formation, not solo growth.   Action Step: Consider trying a one on two discipling triad and see for yourself!     Show Notes:   Watch Us On YouTube  Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Follow2Lead Podcast

“When Scripture calls God’s people a kingdom of priests, it’s describing a way of life. Disciple-making is what priesthood looks like when it’s lived out in ordinary relationships. Takeaway: Disciple-making is what priesthood looks like when it’s lived out in ordinary relationships.   Action Step: Live out your priesthood this week by identifying your parish, sharing God’s Word w/ at least one person, and caring them in prayer to God.”    Show Notes: Watch Us On YouTube  Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Follow2Lead Podcast

Anecdote: Why we are doing this 1st ever book review: This isn’t a book that’s going to lead to wide spread disciple making progress in your church. Takeaway: Good book about discipleship, not great for disciple making.   Action Step: Regularly read DM books!    Show Notes:   Justin’s Book Notes on Practicing the Way   Watch Us On YouTube  Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Follow2Lead Podcast

The solution isn’t abandoning systems—it’s recovering personal ownership.   Takeaway: A church system that does not explicitly require relational obedience will unintentionally produce passive Christians.   Action Step: Examine your church’s outcomes and identify which ones require relational obedience versus which ones do not.    Show Notes: Watch Us On YouTube  Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Follow2Lead Podcast

Takeaway: Transformation precedes transmission. What hasn’t changed you can’t change others.   Action Step: Walk the road to greater fruitfulness by becoming more like Jesus.    Show Notes:   Join Justin at the Disciple Making Summit!    Watch Us On YouTube  Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Follow2Lead Podcast

Takeaway: One-to-one discipling works best when it’s clear, connected, and multiplying.   Action Step: Take a step towards discipling one person by praying, starting a conversation, or sharing a meal.    Show Notes: Watch Us On YouTube  Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Follow2Lead Podcast

Takeaway: Disciples are shaped through prayer.    Action Step: Evaluate how you pray for those you disciple. Make the changes that need to be made.    Show Notes:   Get The Free Prayer Guide HERE   Watch Us On YouTube  Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Follow2Lead Podcast

Takeaway: Transformation starts with a clear vision, that moves us to action, and ends with completion.   Action Step: Ask God to help you see what He’s forming in you. Write down one area where your “old map” is still guiding you, and pray for a new one.      Show Notes:   https://www.justingravitt.com/blog/3demands-of-transformation   Watch Us On YouTube  Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Follow2Lead Podcast

Anecdote: https://www.justingravitt.com/blog/2disciple-making-roads   Story: The road you choose shapes the disciples you make.   Takeaway: Choose your path, don’t drift down it.   Action Step: Map your current DM Path and evaluate if that’s where you want to be.    Show Notes:   https://www.justingravitt.com/blog/2disciple-making-roads   Watch Us On YouTube  Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Follow2Lead Podcast

Takeaway: Methods are meant to multiply disciples, not manage them. (The right method is the one that releases disciples to reproduce, not binds them to that one model.)   Action Step: Pray over your method and ask for a fresh vision.(Begin with prayer: “Lord, show me where my method is missing You.)    Show Notes:   https://www.justingravitt.com/blog/7tests-disciplemakinghow   Watch Us On YouTube  Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Follow2Lead Podcast

Takeaway: One decision can change everything.   Action Step: Develop your convictions on HOW you will disciple moving forward.    Show Notes:   Article on this Topic Watch Us On YouTube  Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Follow2Lead Podcast

Takeaway: Know His priority. Focus yours.   Action Step: Spend time in the Word searching out God’s #1 priority, reflect on how your priorities and DM may need to change.    Show Notes: https://biblehub.com/topical/g/glory.htm#:~:text=Biblical%20Usage%20and%20Themes:,1.   Watch Us On YouTube  Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Follow2Lead Podcast

Matthew 28:19-20 - Go and make disciples of all nations…   HOW do we do this?? Explicit, Excited, and Expectant!   Be Explicit about the CALL– the WHY again and again - How can you reach the nations from here?  Be Excited about and call out who they are BECOMING! Be Expectant about the realities of the Kingdom. God is at work! God cares about this more than both of us! We can expect Him to SHOW UP!   Personal, local, and global.     Global : How can you reach the nations from here?     Local : What would it take to reach this city?     Personal: Who is God calling you to become? Why? Why is there such a distance between YOU now and who YOU envision yourself being? God wants to reach into you and then through you.    Must work it through each of these levels.    Story: One of the most important parts of disciple making that people don’t talk enough about.   Takeaway: A strong vision gets the disciple to GO!    Action Step: Evaluate your own vision? Evaluate how you’re doing setting vision in those you disciple!    Show Notes: Watch Us On YouTube  Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Follow2Lead Podcast

Shift Age (no longer the information age). Everything is shifting.    We live in an age of disruption. Disruption means things disconnect.     We live in an age of disconnection:  Morals have been disconnected religion Gender has been disconnected physical bodies Relationships have been disconnected from both physical presence & intimacy   “When disciple making gets disconnected, the results are shallow, fragmented, and lacking power.”   Takeaway: In a season of shift, we must be careful not to drift.   Action Step: Pay attention to what’s being disrupted and disconnected    Show Notes:   Watch Us On YouTube  Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Follow2Lead Podcast

So excited to be back with you! Join Justin and Tony as they get us all caught up and share a bit of vision about where the podcast is heading this year.      Watch Us On YouTube  Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Follow2Lead Podcast

In this episode of the podcast Justin and Tony share about their summer, the current status of the podcast, and the future of the pod!    Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries

Takeaway: Faithful people come from faithful tending.    Action Step: Are you faithful? If so, who are you tending?   SUMMER BREAK for the PODCAST COMING!    Show Notes:   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Show Notes:   Centerville Grace Disciple Making   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Takeaway: You have what you need to make disciples right now!   Action Step: It’s time to face the fear, get on the disciple making bike and become a disciple maker!    Show Notes:   Get The Bicycle Illustration   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Takeaway: Disciple making doesn’t have to be weird or awkward. It’s held together by proper framing!   Action Step: Memorize the two triangles and what they stand for.    Show Notes:   Get The Bicycle Illustration   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries

Story: The front and back wheel.    Takeaway: The power of your life as a disciple comes from your relationship with God.   Action Step: How is the air in your tires? (Go Download the Pdf!) Get The Bicycle Illustration     Show Notes:  Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries Follow 2 Lead Podcast

The Goal: His life in ours…   Little Christ   Gal. 2:20, “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave his life for me.”   HOW TO HELP ANOTHER DO IT? Disciple’s cultivate their appetites and interests Modeling Vision casting Pruning / Challenge   Takeaway: Disciples cultivate their lives to grow the love they have for the Master.   Action Step: Self- assess and ask at least one other about what they see in your loves and interests.    Show Notes:   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Follow 2 Lead Podcast

Takeaway: You may not always need an active discipler, but you do need people in your life to speak God’s wisdom.    Action Step: Evaluate your council and evaluate your definition of disciple making.      Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries Follow 2 Lead Podcast

Summary of 3 Episodes: Pathway won’t make disciples, but it will provide direction and movement. Steps to a Pathway: Step 1: Determine Your Values.  Step 2: Describe the destination.  Step 3: Discuss the Reality of Your Current Culture.  Step 4: Decide what practices everyone will do.  Step 5: Design a step-by-step process that outlines WHAT will happen WHEN.  Step 6: Dig up and discard barriers.  Step 7: Discern how to continually improve your pathway.    Takeaway: Every movement faces mistakes, don’t be surprised when you see one.    Action Step: Evaluate your discipleship pathway, put it on paper, and share it with your team of disciple makers.    Show Notes:   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Takeaway: Every pathway begins with the first step be bold enough to take it!    Action Step: Evaluate where you are in developing a disciple making pathway–and take your next step!   Show Notes: Step 1: Determine Your Values.    Step 2: Describe the destination.  Step 3: Discuss the Reality of Your Current Culture.  Step 4: Decide what practices everyone will do.  Step 5: Design a step-by-step process that outlines WHAT will happen WHEN.  Step 6: Dig up and discard barriers.  Step 7: Discern how to continually improve your pathway.    https://www.justingravitt.com/blog/marks-of-a-disciple-making-culture-discipleship-pathway    Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Takeaway: The first step of building a disciple making pathway is to develop clarity on what problems you expect it to solve.   Action Step: Take the time to evaluate or plan your pathway. Get clear about what you expect from it once it’s complete?    Show Notes:   A Discipleship Pathway Solves THIS Problem, but not THIS One    Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast  

The purpose of having a clear picture of a disciple BEFORE a pathway!    Takeaway: You can’t make it or be it if you can’t see it.   Action Step: Take time to collaboratively develop and share your picture of a disciple.    Show Notes:   Picture of a Disciple Article   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Recalibrate: to calibrate again. To check or adjust by comparison with a standard. To mark the scale of a measuring instrument.  “We may want God, but we want something else more, and we will get what we want the most.” AW Tozer   “We fail to reach our goals, not because of obstacles, but because of a clear path to lesser goals.” -Robert Brault   Takeaway: Recalibration is essential to abiding. It involves resting, rooting, and pruning   Action Step: Take at least 3-4 hours to recalibrate this holiday season.    Show Notes:   Jer. 17:7-8   Emotionally Healthy Spirituality - Scazzero   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

We are trying to make CREATIVE DISCIPLES, not simply PROFICIENT DM. Concepts: Open Faith, Open Bible, Open Life   Takeaway: Disciple making requires us to become something and for us to help others become something.   Action Step: What are you doing to become an equipped disciple maker?    Show Notes:   Disciple Towards Proficiency or Creativity? Consumerism Articles from Justin    Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast  

   Disciple making DID NOT happen outside of an INVITATION, A CONFIRMATION, A DESTINATION, and a MISSION OF REPRODUCTION (we cannot reproduce what happens below the water line of our awareness).   Takeaway: Common context creates common movement which creates common culture.   Action Step: Evaluate the context of your disciple making relationships.    Show Notes:   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Takeaway: Jesus’ style matters because His style is to be our style.   Action Step: Discuss with the person you are in a DM relationship with: Do you engage Jesus as a true disciple would? Do you disciple others like Jesus would?    Show Notes:   Ray Vander Laan Practicing the Way - John Mark Comer   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Developing Appropriate Tension in a Disciple Making Relationship HOW: 1. Listen - For values, priorities, how time in being spent, beliefs about self and God  2. Ask Questions - About time with God, those they are discipling, inconsistencies/incongruences you hear. Places where they can do something/more to make a difference. 3. Walk them to the application. What are you going to do about it? What are you taking with you from our time today? Revisit those when you get back together.    Takeaway: If your disciple making relationship doesn’t have dynamic tension in the relationship you’ll end up stuck.    Action Step: Evaluate the level of the tension in the disciple making relationship, what tools do you need to start using?     Show Notes:   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Takeaway: Friendship and disciple making are not the same, but they may overlap. It’s important to understand the difference!   Action Step: Evaluate your disciple making relationships and make sure you aren’t stuck in the friend zone.     Show Notes:   Matthew 4:19 Luke 10:1   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast  

4 Things We Know God Does in Disciple Making:  Entrusts someone to us. (John 17:6,”I have revealed you to those you gave me out of the world. They were yours, but you gave them to me and they obeyed your every word.”)   Moves their heart. (Proverbs 21:1, “The king’s Heart is in the hand of the Lord, He directs it like a watercourse wherever he pleases.)    Guides, Counsels, and Convicts from within through the Holy Spirit.  (John 14:26, “But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.” John 16:8, “...he will convict the world of sin and guilt in regard to sin, righteousness, and judgment.”)   Provides Growth.        ( 1 Cor. 3:5-6 What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe--as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.”)   2 Tim. 2:21 (“Those who cleanse themselves from the latter will be instruments for special purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.”)   Takeaway: The work of making disciple makers is one that God shares with us. He will occasionally do it on His own, but it’s intended to be a collaborative work.   Action Step: Pray and Trust God to do His part in those you are discipling.    Show Notes: John 17:6, Prov. 21:1, John 14:26, John 16:8, 1 Cor. 3:5-6, 2 Tim. 2:21   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Takeaway: The person God wants you to disciple is someone you probably already know.   Action Step: Set an alarm on your phone for 10:02 am or pm (from Luke 10:2, “the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few) as a reminder to pray for your oikos map -Believers who need to be discipled -People far from God in your life    Show Notes:   Luke 10:1-11 John 17:20 Acts 17:26-27   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Takeaway: Finding someone to disciple takes intentional prayer and discernment.     Action Step: Pray about who in your life is ready to be discipled, then make a list of a couple of names that you can begin praying over.     Show Notes: Luke 16:10, 2 Tim. 2:2   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

So excited to kick off season four of the podcast!    Vision, Heart, and Skill in DM.  Several Series: Finding someone to disciple, DM Pathway, Bicycle Illustration, Jesus’ Way of DM.     Show Notes:   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast  

Justin and Tony discuss four important truths to help church leaders build a disciple making culture. Towards the end, they are joined by Pastor Mike Tuttle as he shares about the difference a disciple making culture is making at his church.   Show Notes:   Watch Episode on YouTube   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

Check out this bonus episode with Tony on the Disciple Dilemma.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QsVjRKKbOg   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast

Going small helps us go big!   Takeaway: If you want to reach the world, reach your neighbor.   Action Step:   Who is the ONE PERSON you can add to your funnel?    Show Notes: The Disciple Making Difference Illustration   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

Perfect for: Disciples who get distracted by the demands of life. Takeaway: Don’t lose sight of the people Jesus had His sights set on.   Action Step: Identify your non-Christian friends and begin to pray for which relationship can go deeper. Read the article!   Show Notes: Who Cares - General William Booth Luke 19:10 Parable of the Sower   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

  Holiness in Disciple Making is important because it Impacts our:    1. Motivation - Who we are and thus WHY we do.   2. Vision - How we see   3. Reflection - How others see Jesus. Takeaway: You are the chosen instrument by God. How useful you are to do the work correlates to your holiness. Action Step: Seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness.      Show Notes:   Matt. 6:33 2 Corinthians 6:15-18 2 Tim. 2:19-24 2 Corinthians 7:1 Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

Perfect for: Anyone who is or has been confused about the difference between shepherding and disciple making.    Takeaway: Shepherding and disciple making are not the same.   Action Step: “Take some time to evaluate your ministry and ask the question, am I shepherding people or am I making disciples.”      Show Notes: https://www.justingravitt.com/blog/shepherding-vs-disciplemaking John 10:11, John 21:15-17, Hosea 13:6, Psalm 23, Luke 19:10   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

In this episode, we explore the Serving/Training Illustration!  Takeaway: Jesus spent most of His time, focus, and energy training, but He often did it in the context of serving.   Action Step: Take a look at how you use your time, focus, and energy. Does it look like Jesus?    Show Notes: Serving Training Illustration - Downloadable   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

This episode is perfect for someone in or leading culture!  Vision Division Jesus observed that a house divided against itself cannot stand (Matt. 12:25). Unhealthy cultures have division over the vision. When people disagree on the desired destination they are unable to see a shared future. The lack of a common vision and shared future can give birth to every other symptom on this list.    2. Relational Isolation The lack of relational depth and connection contributes to people thinking ME instead of WE. When individuals care more about themselves than the mission, their culture feels prickly. Such cultures choose to regulate rather than relate.   3. Communication Chaos Secrecy, gossip, poorly addressed or unaddressed conflict, and debate about what’s factually true are great examples of communication chaos. There are also well-known elephants and sacred cows around every corner that aren’t discussed or acknowledged. Communication symptoms take many forms, but each one leaves individuals feeling unsafe and vulnerable. At its worst communication chaos leads to a lack of trust and cycles of conflict.   4. Act, Don’t Ask Instead of a culture that invites cooperation and co-creation, unhealthy cultures draw bold lines between the leaders and the led. Leadership isn’t interested in robust dialogue, discussion, or co-creation. Instead their focus is to get people to act and submit to the plan. Some contexts call for such leadership (a battlefield, natural disasters, etc.) Normally though, such cultures suffocate and inhibit personal development. Often such cultures see individual development as a threat to output. Potential is secondary to production 5. Affinity Based Authority marked by leadership being transitioned from one to the next based on personal affinity rather than performance. In such cultures, character and fruitfulness are secondary to current leadership’s similarity and relational connection to future leadership. When authority is affinity-based rather than earned, it leads to inauthentic styles of relating.   Takeaway: Culture is what most people do most of the time. Unhealthy culture will infect the movement you are trying to lead.  Action Step: Do a cultural check-up to examine these aspects of culture and look for symptoms that indicate bigger problems.      Show Notes: https://www.justingravitt.com/blog/5symptoms-unhealthyculture   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast 

  Right Theology leads to Right Living   1 Tim. 4:16, “Watch your life and your doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do you will save both yourself and your hearers.”       Community keeps us from being deceived…   Takeaway: On their own, doctrine and doing are dangerous. Healthy disciples need both doctrine and application to become like Jesus.   Action Step: Watch your life and doctrine closely AND invite others to keep watch with you!    Show Notes: James 1:22 1 Cor. 8:1-3 Matthew 7:22-23 Proverbs 19:2 1 Tim. 4:16   Justin’s Website Tony’s Website Navigators Church Ministries The Reclamation Podcast