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The Shape of a Circle | Everyday Discipleship

The Shape of a Circle | Everyday Discipleship
Author: Brian Hofmeister, Cammie Hronek
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For Disciple Makers: those who are intentional about the commission of Jesus in everyday life, those who want to extend their transformation in Jesus into transformation for others in their everyday circles of relationship, those who want to push the envelope of what it means to gather small groups and missional communities into discipleship. Expect super short equipping episodes on how everyday discipleship is shaped by your everyday relationships.
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If you need more time and more structure, here's how you use more scripture and the book Leading Leaders, in a formal Disciple-Maker-Making phase of growing with Jesus. This episode is one of many on our discipleship grid for discipleship conversations.
If you need more time and more structure, here's how you use more scripture and the book Leading Others, in a formal Disciple-Making phase of growing with Jesus. This episode is one of many on our discipleship grid for discipleship conversations.
If you need more time and more structure, here's how you use more scripture and the book Rooted, in a formal Discipleship phase of growing with Jesus. This episode is one of many on our discipleship grid for discipleship conversations.
If you need more time and more structure, here's how you use more scripture and the book Basic Christianity, in formal Discovery phase of growing with Jesus. This episode is one of many on our discipleship grid for discipleship conversations.
After getting used to talking about Relational, Physical, and Mental Health, you'll see the overflow into Spiritual Health discipleship conversations almost automatically. Now is your time to make sure you have Discipleship Practices in place and ready to share in back and forth discipling of each other. This episode is one of many on our discipleship grid for discipleship conversations.
It's getting personal to talk mental/emotional health! But there are some good questions that get your disciple in there without trying to play amateur therapist. You'll feel like a pro at navigating real conversations at this episode. This episode is one of many on our discipleship grid for discipleship conversations.
Someone once said, "We're not physical beings trying to be spiritual, but spiritual beings trying to be physical." Everything is connected. Your body matters. What you do for work, time, recreation - it all matters to the spiritual being God made you, and we can ask some good questions of discipling each other with that. This episode is one of many on our discipleship grid for discipleship conversations.
Relationships matter most. Family, friends, are always top of list, so lets start there in our informal discipleship conversations. This episode is one of many on our discipleship grid for discipleship conversations.
Relational. Physical. Mental. Spiritual. If you could come up with one question for each category, would it disciple people? Brian and Cammie's favorite and most often used guide to discipleship conversations, is following just that kind of flow. Consider this episode the bread and butter play for the Shape of a Circle! This episode is one of many on our discipleship grid for discipleship conversations.
Discipleship can happen on the fly with as little as 5 minutes and one good question: How Is It With Your Soul? It sounds goofy at first pass, but it's really what we mean when we've been asking How Can I Pray for You? When you have someone on an established track of disciple-making in your circle, let's just cut to the point and ask what we really want to know at a soul level. This concept is one of many on our discipleship grid for discipleship conversations.
Discipleship can happen on the fly with as little as 5 minutes and one good question: How Can I Pray for You? It's a classic question, but answered well and often, it gets us at the heart of discipleship between us and another quickly. This concept is one of many on our discipleship grid for discipleship conversations.
Great, you listened in on having a discipleship grid. Now, where do you find someone to do this with?
We waste time all the time with people. Neighbors, networks, or whoever; hours go by with people talking sports and weather, without asking a real question that would arrive at real discipleship. With a discipleship grid in hand, you can now up the intentionality of shaping everyday conversations into everyday discipleship.
Money is a personal topic. Most don't want to talk about it. Even if Jesus talks about it a lot! Brian and Cammie share two questions that can get anyone talking about money comfortably in a discipleship setting.
The best worship is an everyday life lived for Jesus, so lets take a look at those choices we make every day, and look at how to look at those choices.
It's where you've gone wrong, but also where you've not gone with God. We feel so helpless to truely save ourselves, and that should drive us into a deeper understanding who Jesus is as savior, and what his cross does everyday.
Practicing surrender can fit into your Daily 20 with the help of Saint Ignatious of Loyola and a practice he advocated for - Examen.
Our boys need a lot more from us than the traditional "birds and bees" talk. Boys need dads who take on the big topic of sexuality as a series of age-specific conversations, not just one fire hose experience in fifth grade! What do all these funny words mean when I start hearing on the school bus? How should I use all these new drives and hormones to get closer to a girl relationally and respectively? When I've been dating for a while, how will I know how far is too fa...
"False-Self" is a term with clinical roots and discipleship outlets. It's kind of hard to get a quick one line explanation of what it is, but if you trust the process you'll find a piece by piece discovery of what we made that's other than what God made our self to be, which opens for you a deeper journey of surrendering your whole self to him.
Maybe you're not used to journaling, so Brian and Cammie talk out where, why, and how to start as part of your discipleship with Jesus. It's not as feminine as you may think! Promise.