Before You Follow Jesus, Read the Fine Print: Step 001
Dad Tired
Jerrad Lopes
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
What if following Jesus actually costs you everything?
In this first episode of our new 7-part series, The Seven Steps of Discipleship, Jerrad unpacks Step One — Count the Cost — and challenges men to slow down, read the small print, and honestly consider what it means to follow Jesus.
You’ll learn why Jesus told the crowds to “count the cost” before following Him, what it looks like to build your faith on a real foundation, and how to take a personal inventory of what discipleship might cost you.
Later in the episode, Jerrad sits down with his friend Ryan, who shares his real-time story of moving from compartmentalized faith to full surrender — and what it looks like when God takes the head seat at the table of your life.
This is Part 1 of the Seven Steps of Discipleship:
1️⃣ Count the Cost
2️⃣ Brotherhood
3️⃣ Address Wounds
4️⃣ Build Habits
5️⃣ Cherish Your Spouse
6️⃣ Raise Your Kids
7️⃣ Live the Bigger Calling
Resources Mentioned:
Dadology Parenting Conference
Donate To The Ministry
FREE PDF worksheet
The One Year Bible
Lectric Bikes
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| 0:00.0 | For those of you that missed the email that I sent out this week, we are doing our first ever |
| 0:04.6 | Dad Tired parenting conference called Dadology. |
| 0:07.9 | It's going to be on April 24th to 25th in San Diego, April 24th to 25th, 2006. |
| 0:14.5 | That's going to be in San Diego. |
| 0:15.9 | Registration for that is officially open right now. |
| 0:18.3 | If you go to Dadtire.com, you can click the dadology, the parenting |
| 0:21.8 | conference, sign up for that. It's going to be an amazing two-day conference. We definitely want you to be |
| 0:27.1 | there. So if you have not signed up or check that out, make sure to go to dadtire.com and click |
| 0:32.0 | the parenting conference, Dadology, April 24th to 25th, 2026 in San Diego, California. |
| 0:39.2 | There's this verse in Philippians that says, |
| 0:41.7 | be confident of this very thing, |
| 0:43.8 | that he who began a good work in you will complete it |
| 0:47.2 | until the day of Christ Jesus, |
| 0:50.4 | which is such good news, man. |
| 0:52.6 | A couple of things in that verse give me such hope, I've really clung on to over the last few years. One is he's the one that began the good work in me. Like, this is his job, and he's the one who said he's going to finish it, which praise God, it's not up to me. Praise God that the verse doesn't say, God began a good work in you, and now it's up to you, man, |
| 1:12.6 | like pull yourself up by your bootstraps. You better figure this thing out. If you want any chance |
| 1:16.6 | of figuring this thing out, of finishing this race, you better get your stuff together. Instead, |
| 1:23.1 | he says, I began this good work in you, and I will finish this good work in you. It's all on him. |
| 1:28.3 | He takes ownership of all of it from the start to finish. This is his job. He'll complete it. He's going to finish what he started in you. Praise God. That's the good news. The bad news is sometimes that feels painstakingly slow. |
| 1:40.3 | And you're going through week after week, month after a month, year after year, and you're like, week after week month after month year after year and you're like |
| 1:46.6 | man i am not growing as a man as a husband as a father as a disciple of jesus at the speed |
| 1:54.9 | of which i feel like i would want to and you just have to keep coming back to you like all right god |
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