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The Disciple Dilemma Podcast

The Disciple Dilemma Podcast

By: Dennis Allen
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We've been hacked! Western Christian discipleship has been infiltrated by an 1,800 year-old virus - a hacking that's eroding our ability to do what Christians are destined to do. Conversational podcasts with thought leaders of all types and stripes in business, the arts, the media, the academies, the churches - about the dilemma.

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  • Coaching Disciples - Who Make Disciples. Preston Conder - on The Disciple Dilemma
    May 15 2025

    What does the NFL, College Football and Coaching have to do with discipleship? Collegiate Quarterback, SEC Football Coach and now Pastor Preston Conder joins Dennis along with the Founding Chaplain in the NFL and the NBA - Dr. John Tolson to answer all that!

    00:00 - 03:48 Intro

    03:49 - 05:57 "Doing" Church ISN'T Discipleship

    05:58 - 11:15 Evangelism? Or Disciple Making?

    11:16 - 14:31 Secrets of a Disciple-Maker

    14:32 - 16:30 Disciples Serving in the Lives of People Around Them

    16:31 - 18:05 The Crux of It - Making Disciples

    18:06 - 19:36 Is Gen Z Discipling Different?

    19:37 - 21:33 Wrap Up


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    22 mins
  • Discipleship in Portugal - Croatia - America...Different? Cru's Denis Ribic on The Disciple Dilemma
    Mar 20 2025

    Marko Romanjik, from Osijek, Croatia cohosts with Dennis to interview Cru's Denis Ribic - in Portugal.

    Is making disciples different in Europe than in America? Is the West in a unique struggle to restore discipling? How do disciples deal with tough questions?

    00:00 - 06:52 Intro
    06:53 - 08:55 Denis' "Rap Sheet"
    08:56 - 12:28 Explain "Disciple"
    12:29 - 15:30 Is the West The Only One Off in Discipleship?
    15:31 - 19:08 How Does Europe "Do" Discipling?
    19:09 - 23:26 Is Christianity Getting Better (Or Worse) in Discipleship?
    23:27 - 27:57 I'm Not Trained to Disciple! Am I Off The Hook?
    27:58 - 31:11 How to Answer Tough Questions
    31:12 - 32:58 What to do With Combative Questioners?
    32:59 - 34:53 The Power of Understanding the Person
    32:54 - 39:09 Discipling Generation Z (Is Different)
    39:10 - 41:26 Advice for New Disciples
    41:27 - 47:54 Wrap Up

    #disciplemaking #discipleship #disciples #christianleadership #christianpodcast

    Join us at The Disciple Dilemma for videos, blogs and more conversation about the "hack" facing Western discipleship!

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    43 mins
  • Beauty & Discipleship - Dr. Ken Boa - on The Disciple Dilemma
    Mar 7 2025

    Writer, Speaker, Scientist and Theologian - Dr. Ken Boa - The President of Reflections Ministries speaks into the concept of beauty - its relationship to science and to the disciple's understanding of God.

    00:00 - 02:49 Introductions
    02:50 - 04:39 Transcendental beauty - what is that?
    04:40 - 06:12 How can science and beauty cohabit in reasoning?
    06:13 - 08:05 How can discipleship, beauty and science co-exist?
    08:06 - 09:37 How is discipleship in the West going?
    09:38 - 14:32 "Vo-Tech" discipling
    14:33 - 17:06 Must effective disciples be intellectuals?
    17:07 - 18:53 Evangelism makes Disciples : Disciples make Evangelism
    18:54 - 20:55 What do you want from me?
    20:56 - 23:26 Wrap Up

    #disciplemaking #apologetics #christianleadership #christiandiscipleship #christianpodcast

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    23 mins

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