Exponential Podcast

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Jason Lantz, who planted Love Canton, shares why the principles of "up, in and out" matter if you want to be a disciple who makes disciples. Pragmatic practices that have been proven in the Love Canton church plant.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Alex Absalom, one of the pioneers in the missional movement, shares the value, benefits and Biblical basis for using different group sizes in discipleship as well as practical steps to launch missional community groups.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Greg Nettle, President of Stadia and Senior Pastor of RiverTree Church, shares why relationships, experiences and information are essential to discipleship along with practical tips to jumpstart your discipleship adventure. Real-life practice from RiverTree and Stadia.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Mac Lake talks about creating leadership systems. Leaders encounter a multitude of challenges, problems and decisions everyday. Handling these issues almost always means dealing with people on your team. Having an intentional process to lead can not only reduce problems but maximize the performance of the players on your team. In this workshop Mac Lake will be providing tools and processes for developing an effective system of leadership.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, JR Lee discusses pushing your team towards action. Mobilizing a team requires intentionality, care and vision. Sometimes it is scary for leaders because it challenges tendencies of self-reliance, fear, and control. This teaming approach builds a deeper leadership/followership capacity in the entire team. Discover principles and strategies to empower a team to act boldly and experience extraordinary results.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Jonathan Robbins talks about maintaining healthy relational environments on your team. Even the best teams are only as effective as their relational connections. Talent and skill will only take you so far. Eventually, the relational dynamic of your team will surface and prove to be the difference between a team that thrives and one that merely survives. Discover what makes and keeps a team healthy.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Tony Morgan addresses the six steps to building healthy senior leadership teams. Based on Tony's eBook Take the Lid Off Your Church, this presentation is designed to help you rethink your structure beginning with the senior leadership team. Tony will address several key questions regarding the health of your team. If you feel stuck in your leadership or as an organization, you might want to stop looking at your frontline staff or blaming the people you're trying to reach and spend a little more time evaluating the health of your senior leadership team. This workshop is designed to help you begin that journey.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Dave Ferguson and Jon Ferguson talks about networks and moverments of multi-site. Are you thinking multisite is so "yesterday"? Do you feel like you've heard all there is to say about reproducing leaders, campuses, and churches? Think again. This workshop is for your entire leadership team. You will learn how to lay out a dynamic reproducing strategy, giving practical 'how-to's' for not only reproducing Christ followers, leaders, artists, groups/teams, and sites, we'll also look at the new frontier of reproducing that results in movement: reproducing apostolic leaders and networks. Many church leaders think this new frontier of the missional movement is inspirational, but not something that's achievable. Join us to learn how.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Greg Ligon walks us through some best practices of going multi-site. Is multisite right for your church? What are some of the most innovative practices in multisiste churches across the country? This workshop will explore the foundational multisite models and the latest innovations that have grounded and grown the multisite movement.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Hugh Halter and Matt Smay discuss gathered-and-scattered nature of the church. Learn how to value existing church forms---attracting people to a physical church and releasing people into hands-on ministry ...Bringing together the very best of the attractional and missional models to catalyze a missional movement of incarnational people into the world for Jesus Christ.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Brad Brisco speaks on engaging your first three places. While more and more people are less and less interested in the programs and activities of the church, we must learn how to lovingly engage people in our 1st, 2nd and 3rd Places. In this workshop we will discuss the topics of biblical hospitality in & through our homes (1st place), understanding how God has placed us in a vocation for His missional purposes (2nd place), and what it means to identify, create, and support Third Places in our community.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Lance Ford talks about the posture of servant cultures. Jesus and the New Testament writers spoke of serving 40 times as much as they did leading. Too often the life of Jesus directly contradicts much of what is being imported into the church under the mantra of effective leadership practices. Lance turns the tables on conventional leadership by pointing to the Servant-ship ethos of Jesus.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Matt Smay, Hugh Halter, and Brandon Hatmaker discuss the future of equipping and resourcing the missional church. Every missional leader is challenged to build a framework that establishes a pathway for making disciples and developing leaders. You will be introduced to a strategy that can hold together discipleship and leadership development, while evaluating the use of resources to fuel movement. We'll help you move from missional conversations to missional movement, and you will hear how the Missio team is getting the job done locally.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Hugh Halter unveils the process his team takes every church member through to limit consumerism and create only one pathway forward--The "pathway of missional discipleship."

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Caesar Kalinowski talks about discipleship in the rhythms of life. Over and over again when people begin to engage a life lived on mission they wonder or ask, "How would I ever have the time to DO all of this?!" But God has designed our lives in such a way that we already live in a rhythm of opportunities to both display and proclaim the gospel. It is not a matter of adding new things to our life; it is about living with increasing gospel intentionality. We must shift our thinking from "Additional to Intentional".

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Brandon Hatmaker guides us through the seven steps to engaging need through missional community. We cannot engage culture and ignore the needs of culture. Join Brandon Hatmaker as he discusses not only how to learn to "do right" but also how a socially active Missional Community is a biblical part of making disciples. The result will be communities that stay on mission, a process that is easily reproducible, and a disciple-making culture that increasingly loves mercy and seeks justice.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Jeff Vanderstelt talks about the power, purpose, and plan of the gospel. Discipleship can no longer be seen as an "add on" or optional aspect of the mission of the Church. The imperative of the Gospel is that we make disciples who make disciples. For us to fully grasp this, a full and powerful understanding of the gospel must be seen through two lenses: Power and Purpose. When understood in this way, the gospel is both the power that saves us and it gives us the purpose for which we have been saved.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Jim Putman outlines the five components to becoming a disciple-making church. Take a closer look at how implementing these five key components into your church's culture can help your church achieve the role of making disciples of Jesus who make disciples of Jesus.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Ed Stetzer speaks about why discipleship matters. New (and established) churches need intentional pathways to discipleship, fostered by a culture and systems that facilitate disciple making and multiplication. In this session, Stetzer will address the issues of disciple making in a new church, with research and examples from other new churches and the church he is currently planting.

In this Exponential 2013 podcast, Jim Putman talks about the role Sunday morning plays in making disciples. Weekend worship can be strategically aligned to become a bridge from the community into relationship with others for the purpose of making disciples of Jesus. Discover how to turn your service into a discipleship-shaping catalyst by being intentional with communication, services and events.