The Whole Disciple Podcast

To be a healthy disciple of Jesus, you must live your life in and with a church family because God made us for family and made a family for us.
God made us for family, and specifically to share in his communion of love. Romans 8:5-17 explains how we have received the Spirit of adoption, and we cry to the eternal Father, as our Father and because of that, we know and the Spirit knows that we really are now children of our Father, God. Children, we share in the benefits of his Son, Christ, with whom we are now heirs.
God made a family for us–the church. The Bible’s story of God creating a family starts way back with God’s promise to Abraham to be the father of many nations that was fulfilled in Jesus. That by faith in Jesus, we join God’s family.
So, when we believed in Jesus, we received everyone else who has trusted him as brothers and sisters, and ought to live that out by living with the local church as family.

Thank you so much for listening to Season 2 of The Whole Disciple Podcast! We hope this podcast is helping you grow deeper spiritually and also as a disciple of Jesus Christ. Share these episodes with family and friends to help them grow as well!
Season 3 of The Whole Disciple will be back early next year with our Family Member season! Stay tuned!

Discipleship happens in relationships, and we want to help! We’ve put together a discussion guide for you to facilitate conversations just like this one with the biblical community in your life!
Worshiper Identity Conversation Guide #6

In this episode, Christy sits down with Josh Ingram and Gus Pacheco for meaningful conversation about baptism and communion. They talk through why baptism and communion are some of the most exciting practices in the church, as well as discussing practical tips for how everyone can engage in a way that helps us all grow together to be more like Jesus.

In this episode, Christy rounds out her teaching on the ordinances by focusing on communion. Communion is the church’s gospel meal with two components: bread and wine. And the Bible says that as we eat the bread and drink the wine, we remember and proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
Christy walks through the significance of bread, wine, remembrance, and proclamation in communion and ends with some practical tips for how to engage in communion in a way that helps you grow to be more like Jesus.

In this episode, Christy teaches about the God-ordained practices of baptism and communion.
She explains that baptism and communion are God-ordained gospel responses for us to grow to be more like Jesus. Baptism is our gospel portrait, and communion is our gospel meal.
These practices are gospel responses that we experience not just with our minds and hearts, but with our bodies. 
Christy then dives deep into how baptism is about the gospel and talks about God’s plan to use baptism to make his church more like Jesus.