Episode 07 was first recorded on Tuesday, January 30, 2024. It features a conversation with two lay leaders from Heart of the Shepherd Lutheran Church in Howell, Michigan.
The conversation is a kind of guided brainstorming session designed to help Katie and Bob expand the discipleship culture at their church. They have both been through the Disciple Like You Mean It online training, and now their pastor has asked them to help spread the impact of the tools and attitudes in that course.
After a brief introduction and opening prayer by Next Step Press founder Justin Rossow, you will get a little background on both of these lay leaders, including their impression of the course.
Three words seem to rise to the top in this conversation: Prayerful, Invitational, and Intentional. Those three keys to expanding your discipleship culture help these leaders imagine some ways to create new relationships as well as engage existing groups with insights from the Next Step discipleship process.
Along the way, you will hear Katie say that she is using Visual Faith® Ministry tools and taking a group to a Visual Faith® Ministry event in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She'll be using that common experience to springboard more engagement with ongoing discipleship and grow toward a DLYMI Triad.
If you are in the area on March 16, 2024 from 9am-1pm, you can sign up for that VFM event here: www.tinyurl.com/visualprayer101. Then keep your eyes open for Katie and Justin, and make sure you say hi!
CHOOSE YOUR FAITH ADVENTURE
If you choose to explore Visual Faith® Ministry, download one of their many free resource from their webpage: https://www.visualfaithmin.org/.
Justin, Bob, and Katie all make reference at different times to important concepts from the Disciple Like You Mean It training. Justin mentions Resonance from the acronym SMART. If you decide to take a SMART next step, turn to this blog.
Katie talks about Non-Judgmental Noticing at one point. If that sparks your interest and you choose to find out more, choose from find several resources related to that concept on the Next Step Community blog:
- Non-Judgmental Noticing, a podcast with Jamie Wiechman from Breathe Life Ministries.
- How Are You Today? a blog about noticing emotions with a teenager.
- Noticing Yourself With God, a blog from Steve Wiechman.
- Noticing Your Emotions, With Jesus, a tool from the DLYMI course.
- Noticing Your Non-Judgmental Noticing, a podcast with Pastor Sam Fink (Katie and Bob's pastor at Heart of the Shepherd).
Finally, all three talk about the importance of a GPS attitude instead of GPA approach to discipleship. If your next step relates to your GPS, you have options:
- Orientation vs Performance: GPS or GPA?
- Mary and Martha, GPA or GPS?
- My Next Step, Volume 1 (the one with the compass on the cover)
The intro and outro music comes from Peter Prochnow's rendition of the hymn, "Awake My Soul and With the Sun" and is available from the Michigan District of the LCMS atwww.thehymnalproject.com. Used by permission.
If you choose to explore taking a Triad through the Disciple Like You Mean It course, visitthis page.
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