Discipleship, Billy Graham, and the pocket Bible
- Can you name a guy that makes disciples?
A discipleship riff: stop using Billy Graham (the stadium preacher) as the mental model of disciple-making — the right answer to "name a guy that makes disciples" is Jesus. A host (addressed in the audio as "Dan") jokes he once hoped for eight weeks of terminal illness to fill auditoriums; another recalls his dad's highlighted pocket New Testament with handwritten page-number notes as his disciple-making tool — "choose your own adventure Bible" — with garbled references to the Philippians road and "some dude got dunked in some water." They close the bit with the "are you from all nations?" joke.
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Should following Jesus feel more comfortable as time goes on?
- Should following Jesus feel more comfortable as time goes on?
A host asks whether following Jesus should feel more comfortable as time goes on — noting the low-level tension many feel around am-I-doing-enough and the stigma that contentment equals laziness.
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Confetti and lasers: what should God's people be known for?
- Do we want to be known as the confetti and lasers people?
- What should God's people be known for?
Ben redirects to the docket's denomination question: when someone hears Silas's church described as 'the confetti and lasers people,' should that sting?
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- Can recovery ministries replace a chemical high with a spiritual high, and is that sustainable?
A long pastoral discussion starting from recovery ministries, which tend to come from charismatic backgrounds: the risk of trading a chemical high for event-driven spiritual highs.
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What does it mean to make disciples
- What does it mean to make disciples — is it just giving information, or does it involve accountability and structure?
The hosts take up the third topic: two extremes of disciple-making. On one side, being only an information provider and leaving everything to the Spirit; on the other, running…
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