What is a Mathetes? Am I implicated? Yes! New Testament Scholar, Author, 3X Pastor and Counselor - Dr. David Pendergrass - joins us to talk about the commonly missing piece in lives of church-goers...and sadly, missing for many Pastors too.

00:00 - 02:30 Intro

02:31 - 09:30 Western Disciples: Are We Missing Something?

09:31 - 11:10 Are We Adding New Disciples - or Pulling From Other Churches?

11:11 - 11:50 Symptoms versus Causes

11:51 - 13:50 Cascade Failure

13:51 - 18:09 Biblical Examples of Discipling

18:10 - 18:40 When We Come Back...

18:41 - 20:45 So, What Do You Want Me to Do?

20:46 - 22:55 Can't Preaching Solve This Disciple Dilemma?

22:56 - 24:50 Pastors: Would You Ask Yourself This Touchy Question?

24:51 - 25:50 Isn't It One More Thing Piled on Pastors?

25:51 - 27:00 Duty: Of Every Believer...

27:01 - 29:25 Unbelieving Disciples?

29:26 - 32:10 Connect With David

32:11 - 34:22 Last Word

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What does hospitality have to do with being an effective Christ follower? What IS hospitality, anyway? "Immoral, Intolerant, Irrational and Irrelevant" - the claims often leveled against the Church - and how does hospitality engage with that? These and more as Faith Radio's Carmen LaBerge joins Dennis to explore "Send Us Out" - a new book by the Reverend Doctor Kathy Hulin of St. John in the Wilderness Church, Flat Rock, NC.

00:00 - 05:31 Introductions
05:32 - 07:33 Do we have a problem? (We do.)
07:34 - 09:26 The book: "Send Us Out"
09:27 - 10:55 What IS (Biblical) hospitality?
10:56 - 17:29 Do we see....really see?
17:30 - 20:30 The world right outside our door
20:31 - 26:54 That "hospitality" thing - how, practically?
26:55 - 30:19 Who was the target for "Send Us Out"?
30:20 - 32:46 The reality - the tangible reality of "Christ in us"
32:47 - 35:24 Immoral, Intolerant, Irrational, Irrelevant
35:25 - 40:30 "Send Us Out" meets "The Reconnect"
40:31 - 42:21 What "Send Us Out" aims to achieve
42:22 - 44:16 Wrap Up

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Bill & Stacy Spencer founded The Narrow gate in Duck River, TN. That's interesting because Narrow Gate is an ENTERPRISE (Think coffee, leather goods, wood beams, artists, and a lodge...) and it MAKES disciples, one at a time. How do they do that? Here's an episode on that!

00:00 - 01:40 Introduction

01:41 - 03:59 Often-ignored, but not so secret disciple making

04:00 - 05:43 Stacy's home invasion!

05:44 - 07:12 Identity. Passion. Purpose.

07:13 - 09:01 Gen Z and Identity

09:02 - 10:35 Who I truly am?

10:36 - 14:48 The Enterprise, The Individual, The Disciple (All together now...)

14:49 - 16:34 Work = Disciple Making??

16:35 - 17:49 Whadd'ya mean "replicate"?

17:50 - 20:43 Deny? Die? The fine print of Christianity

20:44 - 22:26 What if I can't come to Narrow Gate?

22:27 - 23:59 Where are the women??

24:00 24:49 Haunting words

24:50 - 25:52 Contact Bill & Stacey / Wrapup

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