A Breakout Track Sneak-Peek – 2025 National Disciple Making Forum
Dear Discipleship-first Friends,
We’re excited to give you an early look at the powerful breakout tracks featured at the 2025 National Disciple Making Forum in Houston on May 7th & 8th.
This year’s theme centers on the best practices of disciple making churches and covers a gambit of effective practices from church leaders who bleed intentionality to those who focus everything in the church around disciple making.
This year’s dynamic breakout sessions are led by movement leaders who are pioneering innovative, biblically grounded approaches to disciple making.
Here’s a snapshot of what’s coming:
Church Project:
The Church Project breakout track at the Forum, led by Jason Shepperd, presents a compelling return to the essence of the Early Church, focusing on a decentralized and disciple-centric model of church life. Through four sessions, participants explore how Jesus and His earliest followers lived out “E-DNA”–the essential DNA of the church–emphasizing diverse, intergenerational House Churches, shared pastoral leadership among everyday believers, and a strategic approach to cultivating vibrant House Church communities. Each workshop invites leaders to reimagine church not as a centralized institution, but as a network of spiritual families rooted in the practices and relational rhythms of the New Testament Church
Deeper Walk:
The Deeper Walk International breakout track, led by Dr. Marcus Warner and the Deeper Walk team, delves into the critical intersection of spiritual formation and spiritual warfare in the discipleship journey. Through four insightful sessions, attendees will learn why spiritual warfare is not just a peripheral issue but a central component of spiritual growth, essential for breaking spiritual bondage and fostering true transformation. The track explores the necessity of adopting a “warfare worldview” rooted in kingdom values, equips leaders with practical tools for addressing spiritual strongholds, and provides guidance on launching effective freedom ministries within their churches. This holistic approach underscores that genuine disciple-making involves not only teaching but also spiritual deliverance and healing.
Discipleship.org:
The Best Practices of Top Disciple Making Churches breakout track, hosted by Discipleship.org, brings together leaders from some of the most effective disciple-making movements across the country and globe. In four dynamic sessions, attendees will hear practical, proven strategies from leaders like Joey McLaughlin (Elevate City), Ed Kang (Acts 2 Network), and Shodankeh Johnson (Disciple Making Movement Leader), who share how their churches and networks are intentionally making disciples through contextually effective models—including the globally impactful Disciple Making Movement (DMM) principles. The track concludes with Bobby Harrington outlining the foundational five steps pastors and ministers must take to shift their churches into vibrant, disciple-making communities. This series offers both inspiration and actionable guidance for leaders ready to implement best-in-class disciple-making practices.
E3 Partners:
The Disciple Making Movements (DMM) breakout track by e3 Partners offers a comprehensive journey through the principles and practice of gospel-centered multiplication. Across four core sessions and an additional lunch workshop, attendees will be equipped to envision, embrace, engage, and execute a disciple-making strategy that goes beyond addition and leans fully into exponential impact. Leaders like Joshua Spinks, Bryan King, Don Waybright, and David Kaufmann unpack the biblical foundations, training methodologies, and organizational strategies necessary to catalyze movement-level growth—empowering every believer to actively participate in prayer, evangelism, disciple making, church planting, and leadership development. This track is ideal for church leaders seeking a paradigm shift from passive programs to active, multiplying discipleship.
Lionshare Leadership Group:
The Mobilizing Marketplace Disciple Makers breakout track from Lionshare Leadership Group explores the powerful potential of vocational discipleship—equipping everyday leaders across sectors like business, education, government, and media to live as disciple makers within their spheres of influence. Led by Dave Buehring, Dr. Greg Campbell, and Lauri Jarvis, this track highlights how churches can shift from merely serving marketplace leaders to missionizing them for cultural transformation. The sessions unpack practical ways pastors can disciple marketplace leaders, cast vision for vocational impact, and foster reproducing discipleship across generations. A dedicated lunch session further dives into discipling children, ensuring a lifelong journey of spiritual formation and kingdom influence across both age and vocation.
Relational Discipleship Network (RDN):
The Small Group Discipleship track by the Relational Discipleship Network champions the depth, intentionality, and transformative potential of relational discipleship within small groups. Anchored in the model of Jesus, this series—led by veteran disciple makers like Jim Putman, Brandon Guindon, and Mark “Moose” Bright—offers a practical and inspiring roadmap for creating groups that don’t just gather, but multiply mature disciples. From embracing slow, deep disciple making (Session 1), to tactical tools for assessing spiritual growth (Session 2), to showcasing real-life transformation through relational connection (Session 3), and finally to leadership replication through group mentorship (Session 4), this track equips churches to turn small groups into engines of Great Commission impact—developing leaders and changing lives from the inside out.
RENEW.org:
The Jesus on Disciple Making breakout track by RENEW.org calls churches back to the core of Jesus’ teaching on discipleship—obedience-based, gospel-rooted, and radically reproducible. With guidance from leaders Bobby Harrington, Bill Hull, David Young, Jason Henderson, Brett Andrews, and Preston Conder, this series of sessions presents a comprehensive picture of what it means to make disciples the way Jesus did. From clarifying the Discipleship Gospel that shapes true followers (Session 1), to reclaiming obedience as central to the Great Commission (Session 2), to offering a simple, scalable model for disciple making (Session 3), and finally to radically engaging and equipping the next generation (Session 4), this track gives both theological clarity and practical tools. A dedicated lunch session offers a warm introduction to RENEW.org’s network and resources, uniting thought leaders around Jesus-centered disciple making for today’s church
SmallCircle:
The One-to-One Discipling track from SmallCircle centers on the most intimate and often most transformative setting for discipleship: the table for two. Led by Steve McCoy, this track introduces a globally proven, deeply relational model that leverages the power of one-to-one mentoring to foster transparency, accountability, and true life-change. Participants explore why God designed us for intimate relationships (Session 1), how to build a disciple-making culture through strategic intentionality (Session 2), and how to move beyond information transfer to real-life, transformative “Lightbulb Learning” experiences (Session 3). With the innovative SmallCircle 4.0 app featured in the final session (Session 4), the track demonstrates how digital tools can enhance—not replace—human connection in discipleship. Complementary lunch sessions further explore culture-building and immersive learning, making this a highly practical and visionary path for leaders seeking to multiply disciple-makers through relational depth and digital accessibility.
CLICK HERE to reserve your spot at the Discipleship.org 2025 National Disciple Making Forum today.
We can’t wait to see you in Houston!
For King Jesus!
The Discipleship.org Team
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