The Dare to Multiply Podcast
A Shrine, a Waiter, and a Hairstylist: Who’s Really Open to God?
About this podcast
Weekly discipleship and disciple-making with Cynthia Anderson and Jenn Chang, for pastors and global practitioners.
If you are longing to grow in your understanding of how to make and multiply disciples in your own community, this show will provide encouragement, inspiration, super practical insights, and examples of how to move forward toward becoming a disciple who shares God’s Kingdom love in ways you hardly dreamed possible.
Episodes
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- A Shrine, a Waiter, and a Hairstylist: Who’s Really Open to God? · 27 min · Episode 179A huge idol statue. A shrine. Everything about the room said he wasn’t interested. Then he asked me to sit down and tell him a Bible story. In this solo episode of Dare to…
- Why Latino Believers Can Go Where Westerners Can't · 51 min · Episode 178Manny Martinez had just finished teaching 40 Egyptian pastors and church planters when his translator came up with a question from the room. "Your English is so good," they…
- The Level Three Magnet: Why Growing Churches Stop Short of Multiplying with Dave Ferguson · 37 min · Episode 176"How do I grow my church?" Dave Ferguson calls it a good question. It's just not a great one. Dave was lead pastor of COMMUNITY Christian Church in Chicago for thirty years and…
- Living the Kind of Life You Want to Multiply with Josh Benadum · 57 min · Episode 177What kind of disciples are we actually multiplying? Cynthia talks with Josh Benadum, author of A Life That Leads, about the character qualities that hold up under pressure —…
- A Leadership Mindset That Will Either Unlock or Kill Multiplication · 27 min · Episode 175Fear is the exact opposite of faith — and Cynthia says it's never passive. In this episode, she tells her own story from a restricted-access country in Central Asia, shares what…
- Finland's Lesson: People Weren't Activated — They Were Passivated · 53 min · Episode 174In this episode, Pyry Winter gives us a raw, hopeful look at how disciple‑making becomes movement — not through programs, but through ordinary people who refuse to stay passive…
- Living Out Of A John 15 Abiding · 41 min · Episode 173In this episode, Jenn and Steven share about how to live and serve out of an abiding life in Christ. They share their own story of ministry difficult and burnout into discovering…
- How Control Kills Disciple-Making — and Trust Sets It Free · 22 min · Episode 172"It's irresponsible — maybe even unbiblical — to let a brand-new believer lead." Cynthia tackles that objection head-on, unpacking what 1 Timothy 3:6 actually says, two different…
- Why Disciple-Making Dwindles Without a Team or Church Culture to Support It · 49 min · Episode 171Disciple-making rarely fizzles because people stop caring — it fizzles because nothing around them supports what they're trying to do. In this episode Cynthia Anderson and Jenn…
- Can a Jesus Movement Begin in a City? With David Broodryk · 42 min · Episode 170David Broodryk's mind left the building one Sunday morning, mid-sermon. He tells it like it's the most ordinary thing in the world — like of course that's how God finally got his…
- Going Green: Justin Long on the New 200-Million Movement Data · 39 min · Episode 169Two hundred million. That’s the number of believers now worshiping and being discipled inside movements around the world — double what researcher Justin Long reported the last…
- How AI Could Help or Hurt Disciple-Making · 26 min · Episode 168Nearly half of practicing Christians already trust AI with their spiritual growth. This isn't the "should we use it" debate — that's settled. It's an honest look at where AI…
- Inviting Others into Disciple‑Making Without Guilt or Comparison · 28 min · Episode 167Cynthia names the guilt and pressure that can creep into disciple-making — and the tension every multiplier has to hold between fruitfulness and unconditional love.
- How to Disciple People Who Will Actually Disciple Others · 22 min · Episode 166A young woman Cynthia discipled in Nepal went on to lead a friend to Christ — who became a church planter among a people group that had never had a gospel witness before. In this…
- Hidden Keys for a Powerful Discovery Bible Study · 33 min · Episode 165In this episode, Jenn shares practical lessons learned from years of facilitating DBS groups among both believers and nonbelievers in Thailand. You'll hear how DBS empowers…
- Everywhere: The Surprising Places God Is Multiplying Disciples with Steve Addison · 40 min · Episode 164Steve Addison has spent decades tracking what actually makes disciples and churches multiply — and his conclusion is simple: movements rise and fall on how closely they follow…
- The System You Built For Addition Won't Get You Multiplication · 18 min · Episode 163You can be busy. You can even be growing. And still not be multiplying. In this episode, Cynthia talks honestly about what it actually costs to move from addition to…
- The Most Overlooked Step in Building a Multiplying Culture · 32 min · Episode 162We spend enormous energy diagnosing why discipleship isn't multiplying — new methods, better training, stronger leadership pipelines. But there's one step that almost every…
- How to Mobilize the Church to Multiply - an interview with Andy Kampman · 44 min · Episode 161In this episode, we sit down with Andy Kampman to talk about mobilizing churches toward multiplication and cultivating a culture of disciple multiplication within churches — both…
- What Movements, Pruning and A New Grandson are Teaching Me · 42 min · Episode 160What does 30+ years of cross-cultural ministry actually look like from the inside? In this solo episode, recorded on her 59th birthday, Cynthia Anderson gets honest — about the…







