S3E7 You Can't Disciple Everyone
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Marty and Bruce discuss the challenges of discipling more people than one can handle and the importance of training others for effective ministry.
What do you do when there are more people to disciple than you can possibly handle? In this episode, Marty sits down with Bruce to wrestle with one of the biggest challenges in ministry: how to faithfully disciple people without bottlenecking growth. As their campus ministry has grown from zero to hundreds of students, they've had to rethink what it really means to make disciples. They explore the tension between depth and breadth, the necessity of training others, and why multiplication—not just personal investment—is essential for gospel ministry. This conversation challenges the common instinct to "just go deeper with a few" and instead calls leaders to think bigger about raising up more gospel workers. Sign up for emails Follow on Instagram Leave a review on Apple What You'll Learn Why one-to-one discipleship alone isn't enough The difference between making disciples and making disciple-makers How to think about growth without compromising faithfulness Why "chasing numbers" isn't necessarily unspiritual The importance of training and deploying others How to handle the tension between quality and capacity Why multiplication is essential in any ministry context Key Ideas from…
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