Discipleship in the urban context with Dr. Sarita Lyons

Show Highlights:

• Dr. Sarita’s vocational story (4:35)

• The cost of discipleship (12:15)

• Discerning needs inside and outside the church (18:45)

• Serving from an informed place  (20:00)

• Rooting ourselves in a Christian worldview  (29:35)

• Holistic Discipleship  (33:10)

• Paradigm Discipleship (36:13)

• How Dr. Sarita shares her life (44:50)

• The Good of the black church & dignity (48:35)

• Problems of The Church (51:29)

• Women in Redemptive history (57:49)

• Discipling the most vulnerable women (59:13)

• The Church being trauma-informed and pursuing continuity of care (1:00:40)

Resources Recommended:

• Deep Discipleship: How the Church can make whole disciples of Jesus, J.T. English 

• Among Wolves: Disciple Making in the City, Dhati Lewis

• Relational Intelligence: The people skills you need for the life of purpose you want. 

• Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: It’s impossible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature, and Emotionally Healthy Discipleship: Moving from Shallow Christianity to Deep Transformation (released March 30th), Pete Scazzero

• Friends in the Journey/ Encouraging and Equipping Women to Disciple others, G. Bursa, R. Forbes, Diane Manchester

• Anybody Home: In Search of the Titus Woman, Rosalyn Hickman

• Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hand: People in need of change helping people in need of change, Paul Tripp

• The Village Gate Keeper: African American Christian Women, Eddie Lane

• Sexual Sanity for Women: Healing from sexual and relational brokenness, Harvest USA, Ellen Dykas

• The Vine Project: Shaping your ministry culture around disciple-making and The Trellis and the Vine: The Ministry Shift that changes Everything, Colin Marshall and Tony Payne 

• Shepherding Women in Pain: Real Women, Real Issues, and what you need to know to truly help, Beverly Hislop

• Out of the Saltshaker and into the world: Evangelism as a way of life, Rebecca Manley Pipert

• On the Threshold of Hope: Opening the door to healing for survivors of sexual abuse, Diane Langberg

• Adorned: Living out the beauty of the gospel together, Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth 

• Rose Guide to Discipleship, Rose Publishing

Scriptures Referenced in Podcast:

Genesis 22

2 Samuel 9

Luke 9:24

1 Thessalonians 2: 7-8 *KEY VERSE*:  Instead, we were like young children among you. Just as a nursing mother cares for her children, 8 so we cared for you. Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well.

Quotes:

• “Discipleship is life and living informed by the Word of God.” 

• “If discipleship is surging up the foundation of your biblical faith, then what we have are spiritualized buddy systems.”

• “Raise up people that don’t just know the Word, but know how to have the Word operate in their lives.”

• “You gotta spend time with people for them to become dear to you.”

• “Racism has impacted discipleship not in domination, but in ignoring.”