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What do you do when other Christians are reaching people and making disciples, but their ministry methods look nothing like yours? Too often, our commitment to a particular model keeps us from partnerships that could advance the Kingdom in our cities. Dave shares how his work with Christian Business Men's Connection (CBMC) in Oklahoma City has challenged him to collaborate without compromising his convictions, using a simple framework called Teaming Circles. You'll discover how to build meaningful partnerships, navigate differences with integrity, and influence others without needing to control how they do ministry. Watch Dave's CBMC Interview: https://covomultipliers.com/s/wgf7t4LEARN ABOUT OUR UPCOMING IMMERSIONS: https://covomultipliers.com/s/uscrhkSave Your Seat for "What’s Holding Back Your Disciple-Making?" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: ⁠https://covomultipliers.com/s/zeqn4f

What actually makes someone a leader in the Kingdom of God? We often look for titles, positions, or exceptional gifting, but Jesus modeled something different. In this episode, Mark explores why initiative and responsibility are the real signs of emerging leadership, and why rushing to appoint leaders can actually undermine their development. You'll discover how to recognize leadership in everyday disciples, embrace the messy process of growth, and raise up leaders who have already proven faithful in the field. LEARN ABOUT OUR UPCOMING IMMERSIONS: https://covomultipliers.com/s/uscrhkSave Your Seat for "What’s Holding Back Your Disciple-Making?" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: https://covomultipliers.com/s/zeqn4fApply to Join our CoVo WhatsApp Field Room: https://covomultipliers.com/s/6Wanp8

You can learn every disciple-making tool and still struggle to make disciples. Why? Because making disciples requires more than learning what to do; it requires becoming someone who lives it. In this episode, Mark and Dave unpack Commitment, Focus, and Consistency (CFC), a simple framework for turning good intentions into daily practices, including a real story from a New York City basketball court. Discover how counting the cost, changing your priorities, and depending on the Holy Spirit can help you move from knowing the tools to actually multiplying disciples. LEARN ABOUT OUR UPCOMING IMMERSIONS: https://covomultipliers.com/s/uscrhkSave Your Seat for "From Intention to Disciple-Making Traction" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: ⁠https://covomultipliers.com/s/bg7h84Apply to Join our CoVo WhatsApp Field Room: https://covomultipliers.com/s/6Wanp8

What if your job or business isn’t competing with your calling, but is actually part of it? Jonathan shares stories from Africa and Asia showing how ordinary businesses are helping disciple makers meet people, support their families, plant churches, and reduce unhealthy dependence on outside funding. We unpack the sacred-secular divide, why “full-time ministry” may be the wrong category, and how sustainability affects whether movements can actually reproduce beyond the first generation. If you’ve ever wondered how work, money, mission, and multiplication fit together, this conversation will challenge some assumptions. LEARN ABOUT OUR UPCOMING IMMERSIONS: https://covomultipliers.com/s/uscrhkSave Your Seat for "From Intention to Disciple-Making Traction" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: ⁠https://covomultipliers.com/s/bg7h84Apply to Join our CoVo WhatsApp Field Room: https://covomultipliers.com/s/6Wanp8

You can teach someone disciple-making principles for hours and still leave them unsure what to actually do. In this episode, Mark and Dave unpack why disciple-making is more than knowledge transfer, it’s skill transfer that requires seeing, participating, and reflecting. They explore how Jesus formed disciples through a repeated rhythm of modeling, experience, questions, and debriefing. If you want people to move from understanding disciple-making to actually reproducing it, this conversation gives you a practical way forward. LEARN ABOUT OUR UPCOMING IMMERSIONS: https://covomultipliers.com/s/uscrhkSave Your Seat for "From Intention to Disciple-Making Traction" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: ⁠https://covomultipliers.com/s/bg7h84Apply to Join our CoVo WhatsApp Field Room: https://covomultipliers.com/s/6Wanp8

You can stay so focused on local ministry that you lose sight of the larger work, or spend so much time coordinating others that you stop making disciples yourself. Fresh from Kathmandu, Mark and Dave wrestle with how to remain rooted in your own field while responding when God opens doors elsewhere.They explain why Kingdom growth rarely follows a clean strategy and how relationships, collaboration, and “boat time” create opportunities you could never plan. You’ll learn how to trade control for stewardship while staying faithful to the people and places God has actually entrusted to you. Save Your Seat for "From Intention to Disciple-Making Traction" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: ⁠https://covomultipliers.com/s/bg7h84Apply to Join our CoVo WhatsApp Field Room: https://covomultipliers.com/s/6Wanp8

Disciple making often feels easiest right before reality strips away your confidence. Mark and Dave unpack the “dip,” when complicated people and disappointing results tempt you to quit, change methods, or return to what feels safe.Through Peter’s failures and Jesus’ response to struggling disciples, they show how relationship, vision, and hands-on help move people forward. You’ll learn to identify what a disciple needs in their head, heart, or hands so you can help them reach maturity and multiplication. Save Your Seat for "From Intention to Disciple-Making Traction" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: https://covomultipliers.com/s/bei8ykApply to Join our CoVo WhatsApp Field Room: https://covomultipliers.com/s/6Wanp8

Church is more than a meeting you attend. In Acts 2, the first believers devoted themselves to shared practices that actually formed them into a new kind of people. Mark and Dave unpack how Scripture, fellowship, breaking bread, and prayer become the engine that shapes identity and produces generosity, worship, spiritual power, and multiplication. If you want disciples who actually live differently, not just attend faithfully, this episode gets practical about what has to change. Save Your Seat for "The Church Circle Tool" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: ⁠https://covomultipliers.com/s/g4ka8dApply to Join our CoVo WhatsApp Field Room: https://covomultipliers.com/s/6Wanp8

Most leaders talk about multiplication, train for it, and send people to pursue it without ever experiencing it themselves. Rodger explains why people rarely go further than their trainer, how he moved from fast addition to fourth-generation churches, and why even that was not enough to reach a city. He breaks down how to find potential catalysts through prayer, relationships, character, burden for the lost, and a God-sized vision. If you want to raise multipliers or build a hub that can equip others, this episode exposes the gap that theory cannot close. Save Your Seat for "The Church Circle Tool" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: ⁠https://covomultipliers.com/s/g4ka8dApply to oin our CoVo WhatsApp Field Room: https://covomultipliers.com/s/6Wanp8

Most Christians agree with the Great Commission but still don’t know how to begin. This episode shows how four questions, why, who, how, and when, turn disciple-making intentions into action. You’ll learn why simple tools build competence, repeated practice builds confidence, and both are necessary for multiplication. Mark also explains how the 4-1-1 moves ordinary disciples from using a tool to forming a habit and eventually living from a disciple-making identity. Save Your Seat for the "4 Questions to Get Started Making Disciples" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: ⁠https://covomultipliers.com/s/UvpegxApply to oin our CoVo WhatsApp Field Room: https://covomultipliers.com/s/6Wanp8

Most disciple-making efforts don't fail because of bad intentions. They fail because they unknowingly reproduce the wrong DNA. In this episode, Mark and Dave unpack why the habits, culture, and rhythms you establish from day one will determine what the disciples become years later. You'll learn how to protect a harvest culture, avoid consumer Christianity, and build groups that naturally multiply. Save Your Seat for the "4 Questions to Get Started Making Disciples" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: ⁠https://covomultipliers.com/s/UvpegxApply to join our CoVo WhatsApp Field Room: https://covomultipliers.com/s/6Wanp8Find Dave on Substack: ⁠⁠⁠https://substack.com/@damillertime⁠⁠⁠⁠And Mark on Substack: ⁠https://substack.com/@multiplyingdisciples⁠

How Do People Discover They’re Leaders? Most leaders try to recruit people into a vision, but Jesus modeled something harder: do the work, open your life, and let the right people recognize themselves in it. Mark and Dave unpack why emerging leaders need more than an invitation. They need a visible model, shared values, and space to discover that they genuinely want to lead. If you’re tired of convincing reluctant people or wondering why no one is joining you, this episode will show you how to become a leader others can actually find. Save Your Seat for the "4 Questions to Get Started Making Disciples" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: ⁠https://covomultipliers.com/s/UvpegxJoin our CoVo WhatsApp Field Room: https://covomultipliers.com/s/6Wanp8

You can stay busy making disciples and still have no idea what you’re trying to produce. Mark and Dave explain why defining “done” gives you the focus to develop people without controlling them or keeping them dependent on you.They unpack how Jesus could call his work finished even though his disciples were still imperfect and growing. You’ll learn how to recognize when someone has enough skill, character, and ownership to carry the work forward. Save Your Seat for the "4 Questions to Get Started Making Disciples" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: ⁠https://covomultipliers.com/s/UvpegxFind Dave on Substack: ⁠⁠⁠https://substack.com/@damillertime⁠⁠⁠⁠And Mark on Substack: ⁠https://substack.com/@multiplyingdisciples⁠

If you want multiplication, you can’t just aim at mature disciples or healthy churches and assume the other will magically appear. In this solo episode, Mark argues that leaders are the missing link between disciples and churches, and real leaders are formed through responsibility, not just information. The episode presses into why charisma creates false starts, why faithfulness has to be proven locally, and why disciple-making DNA and church stewardship both matter. If you’re tired of training people who can explain the vision but don’t actually carry the work, this one gives you language and a diagnostic.- Save Your Seat for the "The Aquila and Priscilla Pattern" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: ⁠https://covomultipliers.com/s/Re6np6- Find Dave on Substack: ⁠⁠⁠https://substack.com/@damillertime⁠⁠⁠⁠- And Mark on Substack: ⁠https://substack.com/@multiplyingdisciples⁠

This episode pushes into the tension many practitioners feel: should you aim at making disciples, starting churches, or both? Mark and Dave argue that what you aim for is usually what you reproduce, so vague language creates vague outcomes. They unpack why disciple-making without a church pathway often stalls before leadership, and why church planting without disciple-making DNA creates gatherings that don’t multiply. You’ll walk away with a sharper way to diagnose your work, clarify the goal downstream, and build a pathway from lost to leader and from church start to church health. Save Your Seat for the "The Aquila and Priscilla Pattern" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: ⁠https://covomultipliers.com/s/Re6np6Find Dave on Substack: ⁠⁠⁠https://substack.com/@damillertime⁠⁠⁠⁠And Mark on Substack: ⁠https://substack.com/@multiplyingdisciples⁠