Designing for Multiplication.
What if your church is getting exactly the results it was designed to get? Season 6 explores the systems, rhythms, environments, and leadership decisions that actually form disciples who multiply.
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Follow Season 6 as Brian and Jason explore how churches can move beyond good intentions and intentionally design for formation, calling, leadership development, and multiplication.
Eight conversations about designing what you want to reproduce.
You Designed This (...or Inherited It?)
Before you redesign your systems, get clear on what you are designing them to produce.
- Vision → Strategy → Tactics
- Fully Alive disciples
- Calendar & budget
Designing for Becoming
Move from event attendance and information transfer toward environments that intentionally form identity, character, and calling.
- Character × Calling = Impact
- Intentional environments
- Formation over information
The Power of Daily Habits
We reproduce who we are—and our rhythms are shaping who we become long before they become part of a ministry strategy.
- Abiding before leading
- Practices → habits → rhythms
- Personal rhythms become cultural rhythms
Multiplication Takes Time: Building a Spiritual Family Tree
Multiplication is generational. Explore what it means to move from spiritual children to spiritual parents and grandparents.
- 2 Timothy 2:2
- Four generations
- Why addition stalls at G1
Assimilation Pipelines vs. Disciple-Making Pipelines
Examine the difference between pipelines that fill volunteer roles and pipelines that release everyday believers into calling and multiplication.
- Volunteers vs. multipliers
- Decentralized leadership
- Calling over competency
Measuring What Matters
If transformation matters, leaders need ways to recognize, discuss, and measure spiritual vitality and multiplication.
- Measurable transformation
- Assessment culture
- Data as a discipleship tool
Designing Environments That Reproduce
Reproducibility cannot be bolted on at the end. It must be designed into an environment from the beginning.
- Leadership decentralized
- Next steps clarified
- Reproduction designed in
Mapping the Shift
Bring the season together by moving from insight to implementation and identifying the clearest next step for your church.
- Mission Mapping
- Clarity before coaching
- Insight → implementation
Six seasons. One disciple-making conversation.
Go deeper into the ideas, tensions, and practices shaping a movement of Fully Alive disciples who make disciples.
Breaking the Addition Addiction
Examine the scoreboards, assumptions, leadership questions, and cultural patterns that can make a church active and growing without actually producing multiplying disciples. Season 5 diagnoses the problem that Season 6 begins redesigning.
6 Necessary Trends in Disciple-Making
Explore six unlikely but necessary shifts for disciple-making—from surface-level moralism toward Fully Alive discipleship, healthy accountability, dying to self, loving enemies, and more.
Your Small Groups Don’t Need to Suck
Discover how small groups can become environments that actually multiply disciples through better invitations, intentional leader development, coaching, and a clear disciple-making plan.
5 Necessary Shifts We Can’t Ignore
Explore five necessary shifts COVID-19 left the Church unable to ignore and what those disruptions revealed about how we form, equip, and multiply disciples.
Intentional Disciple-Making Environments
Learn the DNA of an Intentional Disciple-Making Environment and how an outcomes-focused approach can move people beyond participation toward measurable transformation and multiplication.
The Fully Alive Blueprint
These 12 foundational conversations unpack the core ideas behind living Fully Alive—growing in character and calling and helping others do the same.
Built from real disciple-making work.
Brian Phipps and Jason Phelps bring practical experience helping churches and leaders move from discipleship language toward measurable transformation and reproducible disciple-making.
Expect honest tension, practical frameworks, and conversations focused on what leaders can actually do next.
Brian Phipps
Founder · Disciples Made
Brian helps leaders see the systems shaping their culture and build practical pathways for multiplying Fully Alive disciples.
Jason Phelps
Podcast Host · Coach
Jason helps translate disciple-making vision into clear conversations, practical leadership decisions, and actionable next steps.