Maximize Your Summer For Community Impact

06/03/24 • 28 min

Summer is here again, yes! For many involved in a small group or missional community, summer is a time for taking a break from ministry... Don’t do it! Your neighbors and friends are all out looking for fun and relationships this summer. This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we'll show you why and how to take advantage of these summer months to boost your community life and discipleship this fall. In This Episode You’ll Learn:

Why summer's the time to “lean into” new relationships rather than take a break.
Why kids are such a great opportunity for building relationships in the summer.
How to set yourself up for autumn and discipleship with these new friends.
A pile of fun, easy, and practical examples to try this summer in your neighborhood.

From this episode: “After just a few weeks of hosting our Friday night BBQ with our neighbors, we started hearing them say things like, ‘You are giving us the neighborhood we always wanted to have and live in!’ and, ‘Could we start to have this over at our house once in a while too...?’” Each week the Big 3 will give you immediate action steps to get you started. Download today’s BIG 3 right now. Read and think over them again later. You might even want to share them with others...

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Why summer's the time to “lean into” new relationships rather than take a break.
Why kids are such a great opportunity for building relationships in the summer.
How to set yourself up for autumn and discipleship with these new friends.
A pile of fun, easy, and practical examples to try this summer in your neighborhood.

Thanks for Listening!

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A definition for uncorrupted, righteous anger.
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Thanks so much for joining us again this week. Have some feedback you’d like to share? Join us on Facebook and take part in the discussion! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the top of this page or right below. Also, please subscribe and leave an honest review for The Everyday Disciple Podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and we read each and every one of them. Links and Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Coaching with Caesar and Tina in discipleship and missional living. Free Discipleship and Missional Resources

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From this episode: “An idol is whatever you look at and say, in your heart of hearts, ‘If I have that, then I’ll feel my life has meaning, then I’ll know I have value, then I’ll feel significant and secure.’ There are many ways to describe that kind of relationship to something, but perhaps the best one is worship.” Each week the Big 3 will give you immediate action steps to get you started. Download today’s BIG 3 right now. Read and think over them again later. You might even want to share them with others... (Includes the 20 Idol-Crushing Questions from Counterfeit Gods)

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Thanks so much for joining us again this week. Have some feedback you’d like to share? Join us on Facebook and take part in the discussion! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the top of this page or right below. Also, please subscribe and leave an honest review for The Everyday Disciple Podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and we read each and every one of them. Links and Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Gospel in Everyday Life – Free on-demand training Caesar mentioned Counterfeit Gods by Tim Keller Coaching in disciple-making and missional living with Caesar.

Everyday Disciple Podcast - Maximize Your Summer For Community Impact

Transcript

Caesar Kalinowski00:00:01.510

You can do camping, you could do a zoo trips, like we're going to go, you know, every Monday morning, we're going to take the kids to the zoo and, uh, we got a group pass and it's all good or whatever. Um, you can do serving opportunities together. Right. My wife used to take our daughters and their friends, their little Girl Scout friends and brownie friends at that age. And they would go, in rhythm, they'd go pick up cats at the shelter