Episodes
Thursday Mar 21, 2019
Cutting Through the Slew
Thursday Mar 21, 2019
Thursday Mar 21, 2019
Attendees will learn and discuss what the apostle Paul calls the “elementary principles of the world.” We will seek to understand how this phrase describes basic human motivation, discern its relevance for disciple-making and learn how to apply the gospel to what we discover. Speaker: Josh Reed
Tuesday Mar 19, 2019
Loving Our Neighbors Who Struggle with Addiction
Tuesday Mar 19, 2019
Tuesday Mar 19, 2019
North Carolina has a segment of its population that few pastors and churches are equipped to engage with the gospel, and this population is growing at an alarming rate — individuals struggling with drug and alcohol addictions. This breakout session will provide participants with a greater understanding of this growing segment of our population, a system to respond to addicts and their families that reach out to your church for help, as well as other resources to help you assist those struggling with addiction. Speaker: Matthias “Matty” Ponce-de-Leon
Thursday Mar 14, 2019
Loving Our Neighbor in the Context of Discipleship
Thursday Mar 14, 2019
Thursday Mar 14, 2019
During this session, we will discuss how to love our neighbors in the context of discipleship by addressing the biblical texts of Luke 10:25- 37, John 15:7-10 and 1 John 2:1-6. We will answer three questions: Who is my neighbor? What does loving and discipling my neighbor mean? And how do I disciple them? Speaker: Josh Malek
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
How to Develop a Group Strategy that Engages People Outside of Church
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
The assumption of most church programming is “People go to church and when they go to church, we want them to come to ours.” However, evidence indicates that this is no longer true. Learn how to connect with people who are far from God and help them take their first steps to follow Jesus. Speaker: Jay McGuirk
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Christ and the Clash of Converging Cultures
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
How do believers and churches engage culture with the gospel and how do they navigate conflicts inherent in converging cultures? This session will help you better understand the impact of culture to the mission of God and the implications for evangelism and disciple-making. Speaker: James Weddington
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Compelled by the Gospel to Love People and Hate Sin
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
In a culture that increasingly calls what is evil good and what is good evil, we must learn to engage unbelievers with love. As disciple-makers, we must understand that it is unloving to fail to address sin. Loving others requires confronting their sinfulness. Speaker: Jeff Holder
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
How to Connect with Neighbors Who Are Different from You
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Oftentimes we ask people to connect with Jesus, and we haven’t even connected with them. Experience a highly participatory, active and fun session to learn the first step of connecting with your neighbor to build a loving relationship. Also, learn how you can be trained to teach “The Six Stages of Cultural Mastery” to leaders in your church. Speakers: Ken Tan & Neal Eller
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Basic Tools for Gospel Conversations
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
There are a million ways to get into a gospel conversation, but the question is: Do you know what to do once you are in one? In this session, you will gain practical tools both to share and train others in telling your story and God’s story competently, confidently and humbly. You will also spend time practicing in the session. Speaker: Caleb Sprinkle
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Discipling the Whole Person: A Guide to Living and Thinking Well in the Real World
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
If we have been commissioned to make disciples by teaching them everything that Christ has commended and the greatest commandment is to love the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, what kind of implications does this have for our discipleship process? Join us for a conversation on how these two commands work together and how to move towards a discipleship process that shepherds the whole person unto life in Christ. Speaker: Yana Conner
Thursday Mar 07, 2019
Pastor as Disciple-Maker
Thursday Mar 07, 2019
Thursday Mar 07, 2019
This session will equip the pastor to be a disciple-maker and provide him with a structure to create a disciple-making culture in his church. Speaker: Sandy Marks
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
Bondage and Freedom: Pornography Addiction and the Local Church
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
This session will be an honest discussion about the plague of pornography and the way it devastates men and women in our churches. The session will also provide some handles for helping people find freedom from pornography. Speaker: Scott Hildreth
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
Cultural Backdrop: How Did We Get Here?
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
Many in our churches and world today wonder how our society and culture arrived where we are currently. How can we better understand society in order to reach those who are far from God with the gospel of Jesus Christ? Ministry does not take place in a vacuum, and culture affects how people think and respond to the gospel. This session will provide an understanding of how society moved from a modern to postmodern culture. Speaker: Ashley Allen
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
Finding Joy in Your Work
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
The single most effective place to meet people where they are and lead them into a living relationship with God is at work. Develop a new way of thinking about how finding joy in your work - whether you're a housewife, business owner, pastor, employer or employee - builds relationships, produces results and leads to flourishing. Changing the way you work can change the world for Christ. Speaker: Boomer Brown
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
Disciple-Grid: Evaluating Your Discipleship Strategy
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
We all desire to be part of God's mission of making disciples, but sometimes we get overwhelmed with how to go about ensuring that we are accomplishing this great objective. This session looks at how to build models that help us accurately assess how we are doing in this ultimate kingdom enterprise. Speaker: Walker Armstrong
Friday Mar 01, 2019
Gospeling: Recognizing opportunities & Transitioning Conversations
Friday Mar 01, 2019
Friday Mar 01, 2019
This session was designed to equip participants to recognize gospeling opportunities in their everyday rhythms of life and then focus on how to transition those conversations from the mundane to the Master through asking relevant questions, listening and ministering to the whole person. Speaker: George Robinson
Thursday Feb 14, 2019
Loving Our Unchurched Neighbor in Rural NC
Thursday Feb 14, 2019
Thursday Feb 14, 2019
Is it possible that many churches have plateaued or are declining because we have forgotten the art of neighboring? We are aware of urban churches that are multiplying, but what can rural churches do to reach their neighbors? Learn from a rural North Carolina pastor who will share simple, yet intentional, ways to reach neighbors in the natural daily rhythms of life. Speaker: Jonathon Blaylock
Tuesday Feb 05, 2019
Basic Tools for Gospel Conversation
Tuesday Feb 05, 2019
Tuesday Feb 05, 2019
Learn and practice two basic tools for conversational evangelism. We will also discuss transitions into sharing the gospel, as well as calling people to decision. Speaker: Josh Reed
Thursday Jan 31, 2019
Contextual Awareness in Discipleship
Thursday Jan 31, 2019
Thursday Jan 31, 2019
When shepherding young believers from different races and cultures, it is important to ask the question, "How can I lead this person to become more like Christ without causing them to jettison their culture?" Come learn how to pass along the “faith once for all delivered to the saints” to those who are called to walk in faithfulness in different cultures. Speaker: Walter Strickland
Tuesday Mar 06, 2018
Recognizing Opportunities and Turning Conversations
Tuesday Mar 06, 2018
Tuesday Mar 06, 2018
Josh Reed - Ever wonder why Jesus talked to some people and not to others? And why did He often use questions when He was talking to people about the kingdom of God? In this session, you will explore some case studies and develop some responses regarding getting to the heart of the matter with people without being argumentative.
Tuesday Mar 06, 2018
Disciple-Making in the World
Tuesday Mar 06, 2018
Tuesday Mar 06, 2018
Sarah Davenport - Second Timothy 2:2 teaches us to think about being reproducible in all we teach. In this session, we will walk through some ways to make disciples across the globe with chronological Bible storying and Henna storying.
Tuesday Mar 06, 2018
Competence and Confidence in Personal Evangelism
Tuesday Mar 06, 2018
Tuesday Mar 06, 2018
Josh Reed - There are a million ways to get into a gospel conversation. The question is, do you know what to do once you are in one? In this session, you will gain practical tools to both share and train others in telling your story and God's story competently, confidently and humbly. You will also spend time practicing these things in the session.
Monday Feb 26, 2018
Life Communities
Monday Feb 26, 2018
Monday Feb 26, 2018
Many churches operate on a “come and see” model rather than with a “go and serve” mindset. What if we could empower every family in the congregation to use their sphere of influence to reach their friends and neighbors for Christ? Come learn more about missional communities and how they can be used to impact and reach your neighborhood.
Monday Feb 26, 2018
How to Keep Your Bible Study Group from Losing Its First Love
Monday Feb 26, 2018
Monday Feb 26, 2018
Sometimes in our Bible study groups, we get so busy doing good things that we abandon the best thing — love for Jesus. Discover practical principles on returning to your first love.
Monday Feb 26, 2018
Monday Feb 26, 2018
There is a lot of talk about the methods and the tools for making disciples, and that is a good thing. Yet, with all of the training and equipping, there is still a hesitancy to engage in sharing the gospel and making disciples. Have sincere, but misplaced, motives caused this reluctance? We explore a practical way to help motivate disciples to make disciples by seeing how the Great Commandment fuels everything in the life of a disciple.
Saturday Nov 11, 2017
With: A Disciple-Making Relationship
Saturday Nov 11, 2017
Saturday Nov 11, 2017
Learn four key principles of disciple-making (inspiration, equipping, training and mobilization) and hear examples of each in the context of a normal relationship. Every believer will be inspired to be and make disciples to the glory of God.