Exponential Podcast

In this Exponential 2012 podcast, Rob Wedner and Jack Magruder Speak on how to go from mega to missional. "Missional" For the past decade, the buzzword has been used to describe all things church-missional leadership, missional small groups, missional approach, missional communities. The concept has been written about, studied, argued over, questioned and celebrated. For the past 10 years, Granger Community Church in Granger, Ind., has explored, wrestled with and ultimately embraced what it means to be missional. We look at the potential and the tensions of moving from Megachurch and Missional. How is it that megachurch and multi-site can become a launch pad for a missional movement of God's people into every domain of society and every unreached pocket of people in a community?

In this Exponential 2012 podcast, listen as Shawn Lovejoy, founder of Mountain Lake Church and Leader of churchplanters.com shares his personal story about the damage that can be done when good intentions lead to wrong priorities; and lots of destruction...and how we can re-order our lives, priorities, and ministries.

Aaron Couch launched Real Life Moscow in October, 2007 and, with a core commitment to Relational Discipleship, the church grew within three years to a weekend attendance is excess of 1,000 people. Aaron will tell the story of how he led the church with this commitment to discipleship and how they created a discipleship system from the very beginning that was designed to ensure that everyone was discipled. Since discipleship is the mission, the key question is how do we make this happen for everyone in a practical Real-life setting? Aaron will tell the inspiring story of how a church in Moscow, Idaho made it happen.

Dr. Williams has recently completed a study of 50 church planters who were approved for church planting via the Church Planting Assessment Center between 1997 and 2009. Their original DiSC scores and current DiSC scores were compared to the growth and per capita giving of their respective churches. The results show a clear trend in DiSC scores and church planting.

In this Exponential 2012 podcast, Eric Metcalf and Carter Moss explore how to reach people who are far from God, how to restore our communities to the dream of God and how to reproduce the mission in others.

In this Exponential 2012 podcast, Hugh Halter and Matt Smay will unpack the back story behind The Tangible Kingdom and show how unfunded missionaries can start churches from pure engagement of culture. This session is a must for any church planter who is serious about conversion growth, and finding the balance between scattered incarnational communities and appropriate gatherings.

In this Exponential 2012 podcast, Michael Frost talks about romancing your city. Incarnational mission involves more than just church planting. It involves truly loving your city. We can think of planting like marriage. It is a huge commitment, but we must not forget the everyday decisions to woo our neighborhoods. This workshop looks at missional ways to romance your city, to express the steadfast, generous, life-giving presence of the triune God in concrete terms our neighbors will understand and appreciate.

In this Exponential 2012 podcast, Michael Frost talks about romancing you city. Incarnational mission involves more than just church planting. It involves truly loving your city. We can think of planting like marriage. It is a huge commitment, but we must not forget the everyday decisions to woo our neighborhoods. This workshop looks at missional ways to romance your city, to express the steadfast, generous, life-giving presence of the triune God in concrete terms our neighbors will understand and appreciate.

In this Exponential 2012 podcast, Jim Putman discusses the mission of discipleship. Jim Putman is the founding pastor of Real Life Ministries, one of the largest, fastest growing, and unique churches within the USA in the last 10 years. Building on the concept that discipleship is the core mission of the church, Jim will show how everything in a new church can be based upon a commitment to discipleship. In practical ways, Jim will tell the story of how they do it at Real Life Ministries. Alignment is a key concept which describes how every part of church life needs to focus upon, contribute to, and uphold discipleship. Alignment is making sure that everyone understands what the church is about, where it is going, and how it is getting there. Join Jim to learn how to plant a church and have everything aligned with discipleship.

The local church is on the verge of a massive, category shifting change. For 1700 years, the primary identity of the local church in the West has been "church as institution." Over the last 50 years, the church growth movement has brought much needed reformation within this expression. Although God continues to transform many lives through these prevailing models, it has not stemmed the decline of Western Christianity. We can't settle for winning a battle via contemporary church and multi-site, while losing the larger war. Simply producing more of the same will not be enough. Our times require a different expression of the local church - church as apostolic movement, where every person is living a mission-sent life, where every person is a reproducing Christian, and every church a reproducing church. In this work, Mark Beeson, Tim Stevens, and Rob Wegner will share the story of Granger Community Church as they are making the leap to church as movement. Granger is seeking to keep the best of what church growth

Are missional and attractional by very nature on-compatable? Listen to Mike Breen, 3DM and Greg Surratt, Seacoast Church debate and discuss the either/or and both/and.

This session will introduce people to the missional vision, theology, and processes of the Future Travelers embodied in On The Verge the seminal book written by Alan Hirsch and Dave Ferguson.

Almost 2 years ago God brought these guys together - Greg Nettle, a successful leader of a megachurch and a church planting network, and Alex Absalom, a leading practitioner and author on Missional Communities and discipleship both in Europe and the US. Together they will be sharing from the journey of RiverTree Church in transitioning into a more intentional disciple-making culture, as well as their insights into church planting in a missional mode. You will hear stories from the frontier, earthed in the realities of day-to-day church life, along with lots of practical tips and insights, as well as plenty of time for Q&A!

In this Exponential 2012 podcast, Alan Hirsch discusses the missonal significance on discipleship. This session will explore why focusing on developing disciples and forming people in the Way of Jesus is of strategic significance to the creation, health, and viability of any church or church planting movement.

In this Exponential 2012 podcast, Geoff Surratt discusses developing multi-site leaders. Based on his experience leading the multisite ministries of Seacoast Church and Saddleback Church, as well as connecting with multisite churches around the country, Geoff Surratt will share his Top 10 list of practical ways to develop campus pastor and ministry leaders for campuses.

In this Exponential 2012 podcast, Jo Saxton discusses launching missional communities. If you're interested in learning the nuts-and-bolts of launching, sustaining, growing and multiplying missional communities, this is the workshop for you. While it will start with theology and theory, the goal is for people to walk away feeling more equipped in doing missional communities in real life. The workshop will be led by Jo Saxton, who has been involved in the launching of more than 10,000 missional communities.

In this Exponential 2012 podcast, Larry Osborne discusses truths about spiritual formation and growth. Let’s admit it, most of our current hot button discipleship strategies and methods sound good, but miss the mark – and miss it badly. Larry Osborne will explore eight overlooked truths about how spiritual growth and maturity actually work in the real world.

In this Exponential 2012 podcast, Mike Breen and Doug Paul of 3DM discuss the importance of discipleship to releasing missional movements. Often people see discipleship as a disconnected reality to mission. In this workshop we'll look at the principles Jesus used to disciple people in mission and give you direction on how to do this yourself. In addition, we'll give stories from the United States and around the world along with practical insight on how using the discipleship vehicle of a Huddle has unleashed a missional movement.

In this Exponential Podcast interview, Wayne Cordeiro and Dave Ferguson discuss Wayne's new book "Sifted." Wayne candidly discusses his own journey of sifting.

In this Exponential 2011 workshop, Neil Cole looks at the dynamics of what Neil calls Movementum--exponential growth that births movement. We will examine how it gets started and builds as well as the ways it is easily prevented in the earlier stages but cannot be easily quenched in later phases.