The Shape of a Circle | Everyday Discipleship

Good questions build good bridges. You don't have to have the same side, to understand how someone arrived at their side. For example: Climate Consciousness, Pro-Life, and LGBTQ. Compassion knows how to find the gospel on either side of today's most polar issues.

Our compassion funnels into so many different choices of generosity, but are we compassionate enough to be generous with our taxes? When would Jesus have us scrutinize the stewardship and recipients of aid, and when would he have us be supportively glad that our taxes are at working doing something (anything) about it?

This week on The Shape of the Circle, Cami and Brian sit down with Troy Cotton to move past the Sunday school answers and get into the "26-part formula" of systemic reality. Using the prophet Amos as a guide, the team wrestles with the gap between righteousness (equity) and justice (the action required to restore it). From the streets of Milwaukee to the suburbs of Muskego, we’re pulling no punches on why some schools feel like state-of-the-art launchpads while others—literally converted from...

If you need more time and more structure, here's how you use more scripture and the book Leading Leaders, in a formal Disciple-Maker-Making phase of growing with Jesus. This episode is one of many on our discipleship grid for discipleship conversations.

If you need more time and more structure, here's how you use more scripture and the book Rooted, in a formal Discipleship phase of growing with Jesus. This episode is one of many on our discipleship grid for discipleship conversations.

After getting used to talking about Relational, Physical, and Mental Health, you'll see the overflow into Spiritual Health discipleship conversations almost automatically. Now is your time to make sure you have Discipleship Practices in place and ready to share in back and forth discipling of each other. This episode is one of many on our discipleship grid for discipleship conversations.

Someone once said, "We're not physical beings trying to be spiritual, but spiritual beings trying to be physical." Everything is connected. Your body matters. What you do for work, time, recreation - it all matters to the spiritual being God made you, and we can ask some good questions of discipling each other with that. This episode is one of many on our discipleship grid for discipleship conversations.

Relational. Physical. Mental. Spiritual. If you could come up with one question for each category, would it disciple people? Brian and Cammie's favorite and most often used guide to discipleship conversations, is following just that kind of flow. Consider this episode the bread and butter play for the Shape of a Circle! This episode is one of many on our discipleship grid for discipleship conversations.

Discipleship can happen on the fly with as little as 5 minutes and one good question: How Can I Pray for You? It's a classic question, but answered well and often, it gets us at the heart of discipleship between us and another quickly. This concept is one of many on our discipleship grid for discipleship conversations.

We waste time all the time with people. Neighbors, networks, or whoever; hours go by with people talking sports and weather, without asking a real question that would arrive at real discipleship. With a discipleship grid in hand, you can now up the intentionality of shaping everyday conversations into everyday discipleship.

The best worship is an everyday life lived for Jesus, so lets take a look at those choices we make every day, and look at how to look at those choices.

Practicing surrender can fit into your Daily 20 with the help of Saint Ignatious of Loyola and a practice he advocated for - Examen.