Raising the Bar: How a 153-Year-Old Church Embraced Radical Discipleship

Pastor DZ of Good Hope Missionary Baptist (Houston) joins the Disciplemakers podcast to share how he shifted a traditional, 153-year-old church from an attractional 'churchtainment' model to a disciple-making culture. He discusses raising expectations for membership, making discipleship a requirement, using life groups and digital tools, and investing in leadership to grow spiritually mature believers who make other disciples. They also talk about the National Disciplemaking Forum, practical first steps for leaders wanting to reset their church’s operating system, and the joy and renewed purpose that comes from aligning ministry with Jesus’ call to make disciples.

You can listen to Raising the Bar: How a 153-Year-Old Church Embraced Radical Discipleship online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

Raising the Bar: How a 153-Year-Old Church Embraced Radical Discipleship is an episode from The Disciple Maker‘s Podcast by Discipleship.org.

This episode is 36:48 long.

This episode was published on Mar 25, 2026.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from The Disciple Maker‘s Podcast when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.