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Season 4 of The Red Letter Disciple is back! Starting on June 6th, get ready for 12 power-packed weekly episodes featuring world-class guests. In this season, we’ll discuss a variety of topics including but not limited to how to be great disciples in the midst of a digital age. We’ll even talk how AI and robots are changing the world and what we can do about it. We’ll have some great discussions about how to take your story back, how to turn your pain into your purpose, how to fight against racism, how to make disciples in your church, and much, much more. Don’t miss it. You can follow along at www.redletterpodcast.com. 




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Matt Gonzalez, Janine Bolling, and Josh Salzberg are founders and leaders of Lutherans for Racial Justice. They discuss the church’s involvement in racial injustice, why fighting racism is discipleship, and the practical next steps for individuals and organizations. It’s a really important conversation that hopefully stirs all disciples into action. To learn more about the podcast or access the show notes, visit www.redletterpodcast.com. 

Today’s episode is brought to you by Red Letter Living. At its core, Red Letter Living creates resources to challenge all people to be greater disciples of Jesus. One of our integral FREE resources is a Red Letter Challenge Assessment. It only takes 7-10 minutes to complete. 




Are you following Jesus? 




Many want to be greater followers of Jesus but don’t know how. So we extensively studied everything Jesus commanded of us and located five key targets to which Jesus invited His followers. The five targets are Being, Forgiving, Serving, Giving, and Going.




In partnership with LifeWay Research, we created a Red Letter Challenge Assessment that will measure you according to these five targets. And the best news of all: it’s free! You will get results back immediately and be presented with the following steps to help you become an even greater follower of Jesus.




You can take the FREE Red Letter Challenge Assessment here. 




Resources mentioned in the episode: 




Lutherans For Racial Justice

The (Im)partial Church

Dear Church…It’s Time by Pastor Matt Gonzalez

A Time For Burning 1966 American Documentary 

Urban Christianity: Restoring Black Dignity with the Gospel by Eric Mason

Reading While Black by Esau McCaulley

The Color of Compromise: the truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism Jemar Tisby

I am Not Your Negro Documentary by James Baldwin




Key insights from the episode: 




When it comes to racism, there is a disagreement on what the problem is. - Janine Bolling




We are taking an issue that should primarily be addressed from a faith perspective and making it political. - Matt Gonzalez




History has been ‘whitewashed.’ - Josh Salzberg




We are trying to preserve our own culture, people, and family. - Josh Salzberg




Racism is driven by fear. - Matt Gonzalez




God wants to chill with his people. - Matt Gonzalez




When we are segregated in our own little circles, it’s not what new creation is. - Zach Zehnder




Consider an assumption you have, then dig into it to see if it’s true. - Janine Bolling




Lutherans for Racial Justice’s Challenge of the Week: Do one thing this week to learn about racial justice. 




Lead yourself (and your church) to find freedom in forgiveness. 




Before we can truly bring reconciliation to others in the world, we first need to be reconciled back to God. Thankfully, He doesn’t withhold His grace of forgiveness from anyone of us. It’s time to receive the freedom that comes in the forgiveness of God. Because, a forgiven person becomes a forgiving person!




We’d love to introduce you to the 40-Day Forgiving Challenge.




The Forgiving Challenge takes you on a life-changing journey to experience the gift of God’s grace so that you can share it with others. It also helps you identify and walk through the five phases leading to freedom. 




You can learn more about the challenge here!




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Bryan Rose is passionate about families. Not only does he share his family’s story of infertility and adoption, but he has also devoted his life to mentoring other families as they incorporate discipleship into their everyday lives. Architect turned pastor, Bryan knows what it is like to do a 180 degree turn. He helps churches create a vision for their ministry and breakthrough in their churches. To learn more about the podcast or access the show notes, visit www.redletterpodcast.com. 

Today’s episode is brought to you by Red Letter Living. At its core, Red Letter Living creates resources to challenge all people to be greater disciples of Jesus.




Pastors and church leaders, enjoy a FREE resource called Growing Your Church Challenge: 10 Ideas to Grow Your Church that Cost Little to No Money. Enter the code “PodcastPastor” at checkout to receive this totally FREE! This offer is good up until Easter 2023 (4/9/2023). These ten ideas are going to be extremely practical, and not vague ideas like "preach better" and "be kinder." I trust you already do that. So, go, grab this FREE resource and let’s grow our churches for the glory of God.




Resources mentioned in the episode:




life re.defined by Bryan Rose

Auxano Church Consulting

My Ministry Breakthrough Podcast 

@thebryanrose

For more on the Family on Purpose, email bryan@auxano.com. 




Key insights from the episode: 




Clarity isn’t everything you do in leadership, but it affects everything you do in leadership. - Bryan Rose




Our story of becoming parents is a story of brokenness and deep dependence on the Lord. - Bryan Rose




Your mission is the great commission. It’s just contextualized with different words. - Bryan Rose




We want to foster acceptance. - Bryan Rose




Family values are fencelines shapes how you make decisions. Bryan Rose




How do we see every day, everything we do as an opportunity to make disciples? - Bryan Rose




The average church family is over-scheduled and under-discipled. - Bryan Rose




Let’s not excuse the absence of sports families, but equip their presence somewhere else. - Bryan Rose




Lead yourself (and your church) to be more like Jesus. 

For so many Christians, the discipleship process isn’t very clear.




They know they need to go to church, pray, not sin, and maybe attend a small group. While these are great things, they don’t outline a clear path leading people to live more like Jesus. 




We’d love to introduce you to the 40-Day Red Letter Challenge.




When you and your church take the challenge, you’ll have a clear 40-day discipleship path that will help you master five key areas of discipleship.




You can learn more about the challenge here!




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Dr. Joel Hunter has been a spiritual advisor to a congregation and to a President of the United States. In this episode, he will help us understand our role as disciples and how we can be engaged or involved in politics. Plus, he’ll encourage us as disciples to focus on what simple ways we can help each and every day. To learn more about the podcast or access the show notes, visit www.redletterpodcast.com.

Every pastor knows small groups are important, yet a lot aren’t too happy with where their small groups are right now. You can grow your small groups right now. That’s right. We have helped nearly 1000 churches grow their small groups, and it’s not as hard as you think. Our super-simple, easily-doable 5-step guide to grow your small group strategy is found by clicking on this link.

Resources mentioned in the episode: 




Northland Church




Simple Help Movement




Key insights from the episode: 




Jesus wasn’t interested in winning arguments. - Dr. Joel Hunter




The best thing you can do politically is vote and be an example of a healing act. - Dr. Joel Hunter




Politically, it’s not whether you are right or wrong. It’s what kind of relationships you can build with people who disagree with you. - Dr. Joel Hunter 




We are relapsing into political categorizations rather than personal relations. - Dr. Joel Hunter




We now define ourselves by what we are against. - Dr. Joel Hunter




Christians would care for those no one else would care for. - Dr. Joel Hunter




Sometimes we need to lose to let people see that there is something more important than being on top. - Dr. Joel Hunter




Dr. Joel Hunter’s Challenge: Make the world a better place by doing one thing this week.

As Dr. Hunter was talking in this interview, it showed me that what the world needs more is the forgiveness of God.




We’d love to help you and your church discover what freedom in forgiveness feels like by exploring the powerful forgiveness that Jesus offers to each and every one of us.




We’d love to introduce you to the 40-Day Forgiving Challenge.




The Forgiving Challenge takes you on a life-changing journey to experience the gift of God’s grace so that you can share it with others. It also helps you identify and walk through the five phases leading to freedom. 




You can learn more about the challenge here!




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What do you get when you mash up a wilderness guru and a Harvard-graduated neurobiologist? Jessie’s life calling is teaching others about the mind and body connection and how we are wired for discipleship. Jessie believes we’ve complicated discipleship and is on a journey to get us back to what Jesus said about following Him. To learn more about the podcast or access the show notes, visit www.redletterpodcast.com.

Today’s episode is brought to you by Red Letter Living. 




On March 16th, at Noon-1PM Central, I’ll be hosting my father Mark Zehnder in a FREE one-hour webinar called “Setting Your Church up For Leadership Transition Success.”




Half of pastors today either will not retire or have no plans to retire. This is not setting the church up well to move forward. And because of this, 80% of pastoral transitions don’t go well. So, what can we do? How do you know if you are ready to transition, or when to start planning for this? On March 16th, I’m interviewing pastoral transition expert Mark Zehnder to discuss with us how do we know when we are ready to retire? What are the necessary steps? And what can we do today, no matter where we are in our ministry, to be more open-handed in our leading the church into the future?




For further reading, in preparation of this webinar, feel free to visit these blogs that we posted in March 2022.




5 Keys to Healthy Pastoral Succession by Mark Zehnder

There’s a Pastoral Crisis Right Now. Don’t Believe These 5 Lies! by Zach Zehnder

5 Predictions if Pastors Really Did Quit by Zach Zehnder

3 Reasons Pastors Don’t Develop Other Pastors by Tim Ahlman




I'm hosting this webinar to help pastors and church leaders. So, genuinely, I'd love to know what questions you have regarding this topic. Please feel free to email hello@redletterchallenge.com. 




Register today for this FREE webinar and please invite other pastors and church leaders to join us in this important discussion.







Resources mentioned in the episode: 




Extraordinary Discipleship Online Course

Ordinary Discipleship by Jessie Cruickshank (Pre-Order)

Solid Rock Outdoor Ministries

www.yourbrainbyjess.com

Twitter: @yourbrainbyjess

God’s Story- Your Story Template 




Key insights from the episode: 




Biology and the Bible and the two things that help me know my way in this world. - Jessie Cruickshank




Discipleship happens organically through stories. - Jessie Cruickshank




It’s science that helps me see the wonder of God. - Jessie Cruickshank




If being a disciple is being changed by Jesus, then a disciple-maker is helping someone else change too. - Jessie Cruickshank




Most of the breakthroughs in science were made by believers. - Jessie Cruickshank




It’s pretty fascinating to me how many scientists believe in God but how few clergies believe in science. - Jessie Cruickshank




Real transformation happens in divine-human encounters. The amazing thing about wilderness is you can’t fake it. - Jessie Cruickshank




Mediocre people can disciple others. - Jessie Cruickshank




Good news is a story of when God came through for you. - Jessie Cruickshank




It takes 20% failure for your brain to learn. - Jessie Cruickshank




Jessie Cruickshank’s Challenge of the Week: Find a way to share your story and the “aha” moments that God has brought into your life. If you’d like to share your story with us, email us at hello@redletterchallenge.com or share on social media using #RedLetterDisciple.




Are you following Jesus? 




Many want to be greater followers of Jesus but don’t know how. So we extensively studied everything that Jesus commanded of us and located five key targets to which Jesus invited His followers. The five targets are Being, Forgiving, Serving, Giving, and Going.

In partnership with LifeWay Research, we created a Red Letter Challenge Assessment that will measure you according to these five targets. And the best news of all: it’

Chris is a recovering addict that now leads a recovery ministry. He is a licensed social worker and sex addiction therapist. Not only will he clarify the difference between sexual brokenness vs. sexual addiction, but Chris shares his own personal story of recovery, how to get help if you need help, and the first step in sexual healing. To learn more about the podcast or access the show notes, visit www.redletterpodcast.com. 

Today’s episode is brought to you by Red Letter Living. At its core, Red Letter Living creates resources to challenge all people to be greater disciples of Jesus. If you are a pastor, consider a 40-day challenge to start directly after Easter. Here’s a blog I just wrote called “Stumped with Post-Easter Plans: 5 Reasons to Launch a 40-Day Challenge.” Let’s partner up. Find out more at www.redletterchallenge.com/join.




FYI I will repost the blog from here and upload it end of February: https://redletterchallenge.com/stumped-with-post-easter-plans-5-reasons-to-start-a-40-day-challenge/. That will be the blog I link to in the above.




Resources mentioned in the episode: 

Rewrite Recovery Counseling 

Restoration Nights

Smarter Everyday Video (Backwards Bike)

The Backwards Bike, Discipline, and Recovery by Chris Burns Rewrite Recovery




Key insights from the episode: 




Sex addiction doesn’t have a lot to do with sex. It’s an inability to be intimate, vulnerable, and authentic. - Chris Burns. 




The way you know if something is an issue is if there is shame. - Chris Burns

 

People who would have never had a sex addiction now do because of devices. - Chris Burns




While we have never had so much opportunity to fail in history before, we also have never had so much opportunity for recovery. - Chris Burns




Powerlessness isn’t weakness. - Chris Burns




Jesus never shames because he is always pointing forward, instead of backward. - Zach Zehnder




Addiction is not who you are, it’s what you’ve done. - Chris Burns




Chris Burns’ Challenge: Take one step to prevent brokenness/sexual integrity.




Lead yourself (and your church) to find freedom in forgiveness.




We’d love to introduce you to the 40-Day Forgiving Challenge.




Zach and Chris were talking in the interview about Peter’s story of redemption which is laid out beautifully in our latest 40-day challenge.




We’d love to help you and your church discover what freedom in forgiveness feels like by exploring the powerful forgiveness that Jesus offers to each and every one of us.




The Forgiving Challenge takes you on a life-changing journey to experience the gift of God’s grace so that you can share it with others. It also helps you identify and walk through the five phases leading to freedom. So many are jumping into this 40-day challenge in 2023. Let’s do this!




You can learn more about the challenge here!




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