Disciples Made

06/01/2026

What if the problem isn’t your preaching, your programs, or your people?

What if the problem is your scorecard?

Because what you measure is what you build.

If we mostly measure attendance, budgets, activity, and applause, we shouldn’t be surprised when we keep building addition systems — even while talking about multiplication.

The shift from addition to multiplication starts with honest clarity.

Are we measuring activity?
Or are we measuring transformation?

New episode of Breaking the Addition Addiction on the Disciples Made Podcast is out now.

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05/31/2026

Character × Calling = Impact.

It sounds simple, but it gives leaders a different way to think about disciple-making.

Character is Christ being formed in us.

Calling is Christ being expressed through us.

Impact is what happens when both grow together.

The goal is not just more activity, more knowledge, or more church involvement.

The goal is measurable formation — disciples becoming more like Jesus and living sent with His power where they live, work, learn, and play.

That is the heart of healthy multiplication.

Listen to Season 5, Episode 5 of **Breaking the Addition Addiction on the Disciples Made Podcast** wherever you listen to podcasts, or watch the full episode on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/vUFuQ4U8EAE?si=v7_vHpXEyffNnc6-

05/30/2026

Character formed in us.

Calling expressed through us.

Impact multiplied through Jesus.

This is the heart of measurable disciple-making: not just more activity, but disciples becoming more like Jesus and living sent in the places God has already put them.

Listen to Season 5, Episode 5 of Breaking the Addition Addiction on the Disciples Made Podcast.

Watch the full episode here:
https://youtu.be/vUFuQ4U8EAE?si=v7_vHpXEyffNnc6-

05/30/2026

Calling is not just finding something you’re good at.

Calling is Christ expressed through you.

That means discipleship cannot only focus on who we are becoming, and it cannot only focus on what we are doing.

We need both.

Character without calling becomes private spirituality disconnected from mission.

Calling without character becomes giftedness without Christlikeness.

But when Christ is formed in us and expressed through us, impact begins to multiply.

That’s why healthy disciple-making forms both character and calling.

Character × Calling = Impact

Listen to Season 5, Episode 5 of **Breaking the Addition Addiction on the Disciples Made Podcast** wherever you listen to podcasts, or watch the full episode on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/vUFuQ4U8EAE?si=v7_vHpXEyffNnc6-

05/28/2026

What is your church’s scorecard quietly building?

In Episode 5 of Breaking the Addition Addiction on the Disciples Made Podcast, Brian Phipps and Jason Phelps talk about one of the most significant battlegrounds in the shift from addition to multiplication: what we measure.

Attendance matters.
Budgets matter.
Activity matters.

But when those become the dominant measurements of success, they can quietly train a church to keep building addition systems — even while talking about multiplication.

This episode helps church leaders ask a better question:

Are we only measuring activity, or are we measuring transformation?

Watch here: https://youtu.be/vUFuQ4U8EAE?si=2Uc0r0680aQwpX5A

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Episode 5: The Scorecard: The Most Significant BattlegroundBreakin...

05/25/2026

This Memorial Day, we remember and honor the courageous men and women who gave their lives in service to others. May we live with gratitude, humility, and a renewed commitment to bring hope and life to the world around us.

05/22/2026

A church can have a full calendar… and still struggle to produce transformation.

That’s the tension Brian Phipps and Jason Phelps unpack in Episode 4 of Breaking the Addition Addiction.

Because activity and transformation are not the same thing.

“Activity answers the question, ‘What are people doing?’ Transformation answers the question, ‘Who are people becoming?’”

If you’re a pastor or church leader wrestling with discipleship, culture, or over-programming, this conversation will challenge you in the best way.

Watch the episode:
https://youtu.be/OrGDllCjckk?si=91aRaZfxqM2PFkXo

Take the 5-minute Disciple Multiplication Capacity Assessment in the comments.

05/22/2026

If we misdiagnose the problem, we will keep reinforcing the system that produced it.

More programs may create more activity.

Better-packaged events may create more engagement.

But activity is not the same as transformation.

If people are not being intentionally formed into disciple-makers, the answer is not simply to tweak the event. It is to redesign environments around formation, practice, relational depth, and multiplication.

Your system is perfectly designed to get the results you’re currently getting.

So the question is not, “How do we improve the program?”

The better question is:

“What kind of disciples is our current system actually producing?”

In Episode 4 of *Breaking the Addition Addiction*, Brian Phipps and Jason Phelps unpack why church activity can look like momentum without producing real transformation.

Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/OrGDllCjckk?si=tBtSeKBGCRFNsYKD

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05/20/2026

What if your church is incredibly active… but not actually producing transformation?

In Episode 4 of Breaking the Addition Addiction, Brian Phipps and Jason Phelps unpack the difference between keeping people busy and actually forming disciples who become more like Jesus.

Because activity can fill a calendar without reshaping a life.

This episode will challenge the way you think about programs, events, discipleship, and what actually produces multiplication.

Watch now on YouTube/Apple/Spotify — and take the 5-minute Disciple Multiplication Capacity Assessment in the show notes.

What if your church is incredibly active, but not actually producing transformation?In Episode 4 of Breaking the Addition Addiction, Brian Phipps and Jason P...