Finding a Rhythm, (even if you think you have none).
In 1966, after drawing “only” 50,000 fans for a show at Shea Stadium, the Beatles were fed up with touring. In an interview years later with Paul, George and Ringo seated around a table, McCartney said, “We were getting worse and worse as a band while all those people were screaming. It was lovely that they liked us but we couldn’t hear to play.” They could no longer hear the music. When that happened, they lost their meaning. They had to go back to the studio to find their sound again.
When the world screams, how do we still hear the One who loves us most?
How do we follow Jesus when the stage limits the siren song God’s invited US to deliver?
Who reminds you of what’s true and helps you hear again?
Discipleship refers to all sorts of related-but-vague ideas: growing in knowledge, volunteering, sacramental liturgy, advice-giving…but very little discipleship actually equips the saints to spiritually reproduce their life in Christ.
In Greek culture, the focus of learning was WHAT you studied.
The Hebraic model, learning was WHO you studied under.
It’s the difference between knowing and knowledge. It’s being heard, seen, and trusted while both discipler and apprentice grow as they go. Because faith, like relationship doesn’t arrive. It unfolds. It’s dynamic, adapting to every season, circumstance, context, and audience. In the biblical sense, knowing is about the capacity to conceive. New life ushers in new identity. It’s how we discover belonging. I am Yours and You are mine. Making disciples is about reproducing the way a person has come to know, incarnate, and re-orient their life in Christ.
Small-Batch Disciplemaking seeks to return to a relational way to follow and send. It’s less about learning something new but how to give away what you already have in Christ. It’s about earnest Christians able to share the difference Christ is making in them in the hard and the good or ordinary life. It’s coming alongside while orienting our lives as “sent ones.”
…speaking to potential and revealing blindspots.
…Discerning the work of the Spirit while being present and current in each other's lives.
Small-Batch Disciplemaking presents seven rhythms to experience God’s heart and incarnate hope. They’re not spiritually exhaustive but sensible ways to reproduce the life of Christ. It’s finding your natural rhythm of influence and experience – harmonizing with God’s Spirit - that resonates with another to hear and sing God’s redemption song.
