How (and How Not) to Choose Your Next 3 and 12 Disciples

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

Newlifefellowship, Religion & Spirituality, Leadership, Richvillodas, Petescazzero, Emotionallyhealthyspirituality, Christianity, Faith, Peterscazzero, Churchleaders, Spirituality, Emotionallyhealthy, Newyork, Pastor

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🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Pastors and leaders want to make an exponential impact for Jesus.

We often spend our energy on what will affect the most amount of people. So we prepare cutting-edge weekend services, craft sermons for large groups, publish social posts that we hope will have a viral reach, all while squeezing in time for people when we can.

But when we look at the life of Jesus, we see that he focused his time on a few. In fact, he turned the world upside-down by concentrating his ministry on 12 men!

In today's podcast, I answer common questions like "How do I choose just 3 or 12 disciples?", "Who should I be looking for? (and, who should I avoid?), and "What do I actually do with them?"

This is not easy and fast work, but when we get this right, the church will be transformed.

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome everyone to the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast.
0:08.3	So good to be with you today.
0:11.2	And our topic today is how and how not to choose your next three and 12 disciples.
0:19.0	How and how not to choose your next three and 12 disciples. How and how not to choose your next three and 12 disciples. Now,
0:25.0	emotionally healthy discipleship over the years, we talk a lot about what we call an upside down
0:31.3	funnel. And you've got on one side, you've got discipleship done as is done in standard ways around the world today. And that funnel
0:40.1	is got primarily get people into the doors. We put our energy into attend, serve, and give.
0:47.3	And then hopefully out of that comes some disciples. And then the 70 and the 12 and the three and a few people go out.
0:55.7	The Jesus discipleship strategy was the exact opposite.
0:59.3	He focused on the three, Peter, James, and John.
1:01.9	Then he had the 12 disciples, and we called apostles.
1:05.0	Then he had the 70, and beyond that, he had the 500 and the multitudes.
1:09.0	It was upside down.
1:09.9	And so we're here today because of Jesus' discipleship strategy, which actually is the upside down funnel from what we do today.
1:18.6	And so today, and so as a result, we put our best energies, obviously into getting people into the door, getting them connected through small groups or ministries, and then get them serving with their gifts.
1:28.5	The problem is when we got to build the organization and build the infrastructure so people
1:31.9	actually stay.
1:33.3	And we preach with the goal, again, of investing in a lot of people as we're preaching sermons
1:38.5	and teaching classes, et cetera.
1:40.6	The problem is that very often what happens in that model is there's not a lot left over for
1:45.0	discipleship. And so in the Western Church around the world today, we've got a slow, a small
1:52.2	return of the enormous investment of our energies. And again, the idea of disciplining a three
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