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Hello there, and welcome to this week’s episode of the unSeminary podcast! I’m thrilled to have Daniel Im with us today from Lifeway Christian Resources. He is the founder/director of church multiplication for NewChurches.com, an author, and a teaching pastor at The Fellowship in Nashville.

Lifeway offers church resources, from books and curriculum to other supplies used in church operations. In addition to that, Lifeway now resources church planting, church multisite and multiplication. Daniel works in that area of Lifeway with NewChurches.com. Today Daniel is with us to talk about his super practical new book, No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts That Will Transform Your Ministry, why he wrote it, and how it can help you in your own church.

• Do self-analysis. // It’s easy to go to a conference, read a book, see what another church slightly bigger than you is doing, and come back with advice on what to do. Often in the church world and leadership circles we tend to focus on what other churches are doing instead of discerning: WHY do I disciple the way I disciple, lead the way I lead, and teach the way I teach? You can’t import what works at another church and expect it to work at yours without doing self-analysis. In his book Daniel provides a number of self-assessment tools to help you understand the shifts he talks about.
• Making discipleship your goal. // We are taught in seminary to devote our time to studying and acquiring knowledge instead of serving and hands-on experience in a church. We spend so much time focusing on sermons, apologetics and knowing scripture that we don’t spend much time actually making disciples. Daniel’s book challenges: what if instead of making maturity our end goal, we made becoming a missionary our end goal? When acting as a missionary and making disciples who make disciples is your goal, maturity will be a byproduct.
• Normalize mission at your church. // Mission isn’t something that just the pastor should do. Making disciples who make disciples is the primary job of every follower of Christ, no matter what they do to earn a paycheck. It’s important to understand where you’re at and how you see the world, so you can integrate the shifts Daniel talks about in his book into a discipleship pathway for your church. Taking these steps will help to normalize living on mission at your church, which ultimately helps people live out the call to be disciple-making disciples.

You can learn more about Daniel’s book at his website www.danielim.com.

In addition, Lifeway has a Pipeline Conference for church leaders October 11-13. You can learn more at www.myleadershippipeline.com.

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Lightning Round

Helpful Tech Tools // Vyte.in

Ministries Following // Mark Jobe and New Life Chicago

Influential Book // Bivo: A Modern-Day Guide for Bi-Vocational Saints by Hugh Halter

Inspiring Leader // Patrick Lencioni

What does he do for fun // Squash, Golfing, Playing with legos and cars with kids

Contact // DanielIm.com