Ralph is a a veteran practitioner in disciple making and church multiplication, and one of NewBreed's key trainers and thought leaders.
Disciple Making Drift: How Speed Reshaped Our Expectations of Spiritual Growth
We expect fruit faster than formation allows. The church has learned to think in short timeframes. Eight-week sermon series. Six-month small groups. One-year leadership tracks. Bounded experiences help people enter, participate, and move on. They’re efficient. They’re manageable. And they fit the pace of modern life. Even when we talk about disciple making, speed is…
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Disciple Making on the Front Lines: Michigan
Disciple making is unfolding in living rooms, around kitchen tables, and inside public schools. We asked one of our Discipology users in Michigan to reflect on how her thinking and practice have shifted. She asked to remain unnamed, but what follows are her words. Before Discipology, she described her approach to disciple making this way:…
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Two Workshops. One Time Slot. Choose Your Track.
While you’re at Exponential Orlando, our team is leading two simultaneous workshops during session 1 (Tuesday, March 17 from 2:30 to 3:30pm) each tackling disciple making from a different angle. You’ll need to pick one, but you really can’t go wrong. Workshop Option 1 How Jesus & Paul Made Disciples: Time, Teaching, and Tactics Speaker:…
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“You Give Them Something to Eat”
How Jesus Used Tactics to Hand Responsibility to Disciples Before They Felt Ready It’s getting late. The crowd is still there-thousands of them-spread across the hillside. They’ve been listening all day. Watching. Waiting. No one has moved. The disciples are doing the math. There’s no food. There’s no plan. There’s no way this ends well.…
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Principles of Time: Why Formation Requires Proximity
By Peyton Jones If the patterns of Jesus’s life show us how he spent time with his disciples, the principles of time explain why that time mattered. Jesus did not simply accumulate hours with people. He was not aimlessly available. His use of time was purposeful, relational, and deeply formative. Time, in Jesus’s hands, was…
Read More 5 Ministry Trends That Will Flip the Church on Its Head in 2026
Ministry as we know it is shifting-and fast. The methods that built yesterday’s churches are no longer enough to meet the demands of today’s world. From cultural shifts to technological breakthroughs, the church is being forced to rethink how it connects with people, equips believers, and expands the Kingdom. The question isn’t whether change is…
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