The Dip Is Not a Sign You Picked the Wrong Model

Save Your Free Seat at the Zoom December 2026 Four Fields Intensive: ⁠https://covomultipliers.com/s/mgstty⁠You started making disciples, sharing the gospel, and gathering people, but now you've hit a wall you don't know how to get past. Do you need a better strategy, another book, or is something deeper holding you back?In this episode, Mark and Dave share why the biggest breakthroughs often come when practitioners wrestle with real challenges together and rediscover the simple, repeatable patterns of Jesus. You'll learn how to move beyond theory, recognize the barriers in your own thinking, and find a way forward rooted in Scripture rather than the latest ministry trend.

Is it faith, or are you just overdoing it? When you're juggling work, family, and making disciples, how do you know whether you're stepping out in faith or simply taking on too much? The pressure to do more can leave you exhausted, frustrated, and wondering whether your limitations are holding back God's Kingdom.In this episode, Dave and Mark wrestle with why God might actually use those limitations to shape your character, deepen your faith, and lead you toward multiplication. Discover why faithful consistency, investing in a few, and trusting others with responsibility might accomplish more than constantly pushing past your limits.LEARN ABOUT OUR UPCOMING OKC IMMERSION: https://covomultipliers.com/s/uscrhkSave Your Seat for "What’s Holding Back Your Disciple-Making?" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: ⁠⁠https://covomultipliers.com/s/zeqn4f

What do you do when other Christians are reaching people and making disciples, but their ministry methods look nothing like yours? Too often, our commitment to a particular model keeps us from partnerships that could advance the Kingdom in our cities. Dave shares how his work with Christian Business Men's Connection (CBMC) in Oklahoma City has challenged him to collaborate without compromising his convictions, using a simple framework called Teaming Circles. You'll discover how to build meaningful partnerships, navigate differences with integrity, and influence others without needing to control how they do ministry.Watch Dave's CBMC Interview: https://covomultipliers.com/s/wgf7t4LEARN ABOUT OUR UPCOMING IMMERSIONS: https://covomultipliers.com/s/uscrhkSave Your Seat for "What’s Holding Back Your Disciple-Making?" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: ⁠https://covomultipliers.com/s/zeqn4f

What actually makes someone a leader in the Kingdom of God? We often look for titles, positions, or exceptional gifting, but Jesus modeled something different. In this episode, Mark explores why initiative and responsibility are the real signs of emerging leadership, and why rushing to appoint leaders can actually undermine their development.You'll discover how to recognize leadership in everyday disciples, embrace the messy process of growth, and raise up leaders who have already proven faithful in the field.LEARN ABOUT OUR UPCOMING IMMERSIONS: https://covomultipliers.com/s/uscrhkSave Your Seat for "What’s Holding Back Your Disciple-Making?" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: https://covomultipliers.com/s/zeqn4fApply to Join our CoVo WhatsApp Field Room: https://covomultipliers.com/s/6Wanp8

You can learn every disciple-making tool and still struggle to make disciples. Why? Because making disciples requires more than learning what to do; it requires becoming someone who lives it. In this episode, Mark and Dave unpack Commitment, Focus, and Consistency (CFC), a simple framework for turning good intentions into daily practices, including a real story from a New York City basketball court.Discover how counting the cost, changing your priorities, and depending on the Holy Spirit can help you move from knowing the tools to actually multiplying disciples.LEARN ABOUT OUR UPCOMING IMMERSIONS: https://covomultipliers.com/s/uscrhkSave Your Seat for "From Intention to Disciple-Making Traction" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: ⁠https://covomultipliers.com/s/bg7h84Apply to Join our CoVo WhatsApp Field Room: https://covomultipliers.com/s/6Wanp8

What if your job or business isn’t competing with your calling, but is actually part of it? Jonathan shares stories from Africa and Asia showing how ordinary businesses are helping disciple makers meet people, support their families, plant churches, and reduce unhealthy dependence on outside funding. We unpack the sacred-secular divide, why “full-time ministry” may be the wrong category, and how sustainability affects whether movements can actually reproduce beyond the first generation. If you’ve ever wondered how work, money, mission, and multiplication fit together, this conversation will challenge some assumptions.LEARN ABOUT OUR UPCOMING IMMERSIONS: https://covomultipliers.com/s/uscrhkSave Your Seat for "From Intention to Disciple-Making Traction" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: ⁠https://covomultipliers.com/s/bg7h84Apply to Join our CoVo WhatsApp Field Room: https://covomultipliers.com/s/6Wanp8

You can teach someone disciple-making principles for hours and still leave them unsure what to actually do. In this episode, Mark and Dave unpack why disciple-making is more than knowledge transfer, it’s skill transfer that requires seeing, participating, and reflecting. They explore how Jesus formed disciples through a repeated rhythm of modeling, experience, questions, and debriefing. If you want people to move from understanding disciple-making to actually reproducing it, this conversation gives you a practical way forward.LEARN ABOUT OUR UPCOMING IMMERSIONS: https://covomultipliers.com/s/uscrhkSave Your Seat for "From Intention to Disciple-Making Traction" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: ⁠https://covomultipliers.com/s/bg7h84Apply to Join our CoVo WhatsApp Field Room: https://covomultipliers.com/s/6Wanp8

You can stay so focused on local ministry that you lose sight of the larger work, or spend so much time coordinating others that you stop making disciples yourself. Fresh from Kathmandu, Mark and Dave wrestle with how to remain rooted in your own field while responding when God opens doors elsewhere.They explain why Kingdom growth rarely follows a clean strategy and how relationships, collaboration, and “boat time” create opportunities you could never plan. You’ll learn how to trade control for stewardship while staying faithful to the people and places God has actually entrusted to you.Save Your Seat for "From Intention to Disciple-Making Traction" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: ⁠https://covomultipliers.com/s/bg7h84Apply to Join our CoVo WhatsApp Field Room: https://covomultipliers.com/s/6Wanp8

Disciple making often feels easiest right before reality strips away your confidence. Mark and Dave unpack the “dip,” when complicated people and disappointing results tempt you to quit, change methods, or return to what feels safe.Through Peter’s failures and Jesus’ response to struggling disciples, they show how relationship, vision, and hands-on help move people forward. You’ll learn to identify what a disciple needs in their head, heart, or hands so you can help them reach maturity and multiplication.Save Your Seat for "From Intention to Disciple-Making Traction" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: https://covomultipliers.com/s/bei8ykApply to Join our CoVo WhatsApp Field Room: https://covomultipliers.com/s/6Wanp8

Church is more than a meeting you attend. In Acts 2, the first believers devoted themselves to shared practices that actually formed them into a new kind of people. Mark and Dave unpack how Scripture, fellowship, breaking bread, and prayer become the engine that shapes identity and produces generosity, worship, spiritual power, and multiplication. If you want disciples who actually live differently, not just attend faithfully, this episode gets practical about what has to change. Save Your Seat for "The Church Circle Tool" 45 Min Zoom Lab next month: ⁠https://covomultipliers.com/s/g4ka8dApply to Join our CoVo WhatsApp Field Room: https://covomultipliers.com/s/6Wanp8