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The Dare to Multiply Podcast

Cynthia Anderson

The Dare to Multiply Podcast is a weekly show on discipleship and disciple-making, hosted by Cynthia Anderson — a movement pioneer who has helped launch 24 disciple-making movements worldwide — alongside co-host Jenn Chang, a discipleship practitioner based in Thailand who brings a Southeast Asia field perspective to the show. Each episode brings field stories, practical tools, and honest conversation for two audiences at once: Western pastors and church leaders who want their discipleship to actually multiply, and global DMM/CPM practitioners working in unreached and oral cultures. From simple, reproducible discipleship processes to leadership culture, obedience, and the Holy Spirit's role in multiplication — this is a show for anyone who wants to see ordinary believers become disciples who make disciples.

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  • #171
    Tuesday · 48 min

    Why Disciple-Making Dwindles Without a Team or Church Culture to Support It

    Disciple-making rarely fizzles because people stop caring — it fizzles because nothing around them supports what they're trying to do. In this episode Cynthia Anderson and Jenn Chang explore why team and church culture are essential to sustaining multiplication, what leaders get wrong, and one honest diagnostic question every practitioner needs to sit with. Practical, story-driven, and for anyone who wants to build something that outlasts them. 📖 Free guide mentioned in this episode: 3 Mindset Shifts That Unlock Multiplication — resources.daretomultiply.com/3mindsetshifts

  • #170
    September 1 · 41 min

    Can a Jesus Movement Begin in a City? With David Broodryk

    David Broodryk's mind left the building one Sunday morning, mid-sermon. He tells it like it's the most ordinary thing in the world — like of course that's how God finally got his attention. His mind rose up over the ten million people packed into the sprawl between Johannesburg and Pretoria, and he heard himself ask a question he'd never asked before: not how do I grow my church, but what would it actually take to reach this city? David's insights on complexity, relational poverty, and finding your own person of peace will give you something practical to carry into this week. Learn more or connect with David at davidbroodryk.org

  • #169
    August 4 · 39 min

    Going Green: Justin Long on the New 200-Million Movement Data

    Two hundred million. That’s the number of believers now worshiping and being discipled inside movements around the world — double what researcher Justin Long reported the last time he joined me on this podcast. Justin serves as Director of Research for Beyond and plays a key role in the 24:14 Coalition, the global collaboration working toward a movement strategy for every unreached people and place. In this conversation, he walks me through how that number actually gets verified — a story that involves a room full of practitioners, stacks of paper, and one very content introvert who traded his conference “fun day” for a weekend with spreadsheets. We talk about why 24:14 is retiring the old “2% reached” benchmark for a tougher new standard called “going green,” and why the goal was never meant to be a countdown to Jesus’ return, but simple obedience to what He already told us to do. Wherever you’re leading — a congregation in the Midwest or the first handful of believers in a place that’s never had a movement before — you’ll walk away with a sharper prayer list and a next step for getting relationally connected to what God is doing. Stick around after the interview for our Diving Deeper segment with Justin, available for Dare to Multiply members, where we go further into the trends, the risks, and the research disagreements shaping the movement world right now. Learn more or get in touch with Justin at justinlong.org or 2414now.net.

  • #168
    July 28 · 25 min

    How AI Could Help or Hurt Disciple-Making

    Nearly half of practicing Christians already trust AI with their spiritual growth. This isn't the "should we use it" debate — that's settled. It's an honest look at where AI helps the real work of multiplication, and where it quietly substitutes for the thing disciple-making can't do without: a person, present, calling another person toward obedience. Read the companion blog post: "The Line AI Can't Cross in Disciple-Making" Join the Dare to Multiply community: multipliersmindset.com/dtmmembership

  • #166
    July 14 · 21 min

    How to Disciple People Who Will Actually Disciple Others

    A young woman Cynthia discipled in Nepal went on to lead a friend to Christ — who became a church planter among a people group that had never had a gospel witness before. In this episode, Cynthia breaks down the four specific things she did that let that chain keep multiplying, traces the same pattern through Paul, Priscilla, Aquila, and Apollos in Acts 18, and makes the case that most discipleship in the West never gets the chance to multiply because it never leaves the classroom. 🎁 Grab the free 3 Mindset Shifts guide: resources.daretomultiply.com/3mindsetshifts

  • #165
    July 7 · 32 min

    Hidden Keys for a Powerful Discovery Bible Study

    In this episode, Jenn shares practical lessons learned from years of facilitating DBS groups among both believers and nonbelievers in Thailand. You'll hear how DBS empowers ordinary believers to make disciples, answers to common concerns, and why trusting the Holy Spirit is often harder—and more important—than having all the answers.

  • #164
    June 30 · 39 min

    Everywhere: The Surprising Places God Is Multiplying Disciples with Steve Addison

    Steve Addison has spent decades tracking what actually makes disciples and churches multiply — and his conclusion is simple: movements rise and fall on how closely they follow the life and ministry of Jesus. In this conversation, Cynthia Anderson talks with Steve about his book Everywhere, the ordinary people who carry these movements, the only thing that truly multiplies, and the honest cost of pursuing it. A hopeful, grounded conversation for pastors, practitioners, and anyone longing to see multiplication right where they are. Go deeper with Diving Deeper: multipliersmindset.com/dtmmembership

  • #163
    June 23 · 18 min

    The System You Built For Addition Won't Get You Multiplication

    You can be busy. You can even be growing. And still not be multiplying. In this episode, Cynthia talks honestly about what it actually costs to move from addition to multiplication — not the theory, but the moment you have to let go of a system you built, invested in, and were proud of, because it wasn't producing what it looked like it should. She walks through two patterns many leaders don't even realize they're still running on: a structure built for slow, careful addition, and a discipleship habit — going deep with one person, alone — that can quietly block the very multiplication it's meant to produce. This works the same whether you're leading a congregation in the Midwest or training leaders in a movement context overseas. The system is just dressed differently. Grab the free 3 Mindset Shifts guide at: resources.daretomultiply.com/3mindsetshifts.

  • #162
    June 16 · 32 min

    The Most Overlooked Step in Building a Multiplying Culture

    We spend enormous energy diagnosing why discipleship isn't multiplying — new methods, better training, stronger leadership pipelines. But there's one step that almost every Western ministry has quietly set aside, and every significant Disciple Making Movement in history points back to it. In this episode, Cynthia Anderson names the two specific prayer practices that movement leaders carry and most Western leaders have traded away: intentional, daily prayer for named lost people, and extraordinary prayer that positions dependence as the real work — not the warm-up. This is honest, practical, and drawn from 35 years on the ground. Whether you're a pastor, a practitioner on the field, or someone working with immigrant and refugee communities in a Western city, the re-entry point is the same. Five names. Start there. Free resource: Grab the 3 Mindset Shifts That Unlock Multiplication guide at resources.daretomultiply.com/3mindsetshifts

  • #161
    June 9 · 43 min

    How to Mobilize the Church to Multiply - an interview with Andy Kampman

    In this episode, we sit down with Andy Kampman to talk about mobilizing churches toward multiplication and cultivating a culture of disciple multiplication within churches — both in the West and among the unreached. In this conversation, we discuss: How to partner with churches toward multiplication Why vision casting from Scripture matters Stories of disciple multiplication overseas Building a culture of life-on-life discipleship The importance of abiding in Jesus and patience in ministry Why we should love the church instead of criticizing it If this episode encouraged you, be sure to like, subscribe, and share it with someone passionate about disciple-making and missions.

  • #160
    June 2 · 42 min

    What Movements, Pruning and A New Grandson are Teaching Me

    What does 30+ years of cross-cultural ministry actually look like from the inside? In this solo episode, recorded on her 59th birthday, Cynthia Anderson gets honest — about the surprises, the valleys she never would have chosen, and the convictions that have only deepened over three decades of disciple-making work across Nepal, India, Thailand, and Africa. This isn't a highlight reel. It's a real look at what sustained obedience costs, what it produces, and why the pattern of valleys leading to breakthrough doesn't stop. In this episode: Why God's love is not contingent on your fruit — and why that's still disorienting after all this time What Cynthia would do differently (margins, meetings, and what she wishes she'd said no to) The valley-to-breakthrough pattern traced across 30 years of field work A 1 Corinthians 13 rewrite that reframes what success in ministry actually looks like Why Caleb at 85 is still her model for what's next 🎂 Birthday Sale — June 2–10:2 5% off annual Dare to Multiply membership. Exploring Further: $52/year | Diving Deeper: $74/year 👉 daretomultiply.com/birthdaymembershipsale

  • #159
    May 26 · 57 min

    Are We Getting Deaf Ministry Wrong? #deafministry

    In this Dare to Multiply Podcast episode, Cynthia interviews Deaf disciple-makers—offering a rare opportunity to “hear” directly from Deaf believers about how to effectively minister within their own community. You’ll discover why translation alone isn’t enough, why the gospel is best understood in sign language through Deaf culture, and how Deaf leaders are uniquely equipped to reach others. This conversation will challenge assumptions and reshape how we think about discipleship among the Deaf. Listen, learn, and dare to multiply.

  • #158
    May 19 · 29 min

    Why Reproducibility Matters More Than Performance

    What if the most impressive thing you've ever built in ministry is actually the thing slowing multiplication down? In this episode of Dare to Multiply, Cynthia Anderson unpacks one of the most important — and most overlooked — mindset shifts for church leaders and disciple-makers: why reproducibility matters more than performance, and what happens when we confuse the two.

  • #156
    May 12 · 24 min

    Why Most Churches Say Discipleship Matters—But Rarely See It Multiply

    Most churches say discipleship matters. So why do we so rarely see it multiply? In this episode of Dare to Multiply, Cynthia Anderson explores a tension many pastors, practitioners, and Christian leaders feel—but don’t always name: discipleship is often emphasized, taught, and programmed… yet reproduction rarely follows. This conversation isn’t about blame or better techniques. It’s about re‑examining what Jesus actually did—and what happens when discipleship shifts from information transfer to obedience‑based, life‑on‑life formation.

  • #157
    May 6 · 49 min

    Amazing Multiplication in America's Prisons and the Hope It Gives

    In today’s episode, Cynthia sits down with three seasoned multipliers who have witnessed extraordinary transformation inside America’s prisons. What began with simple obedience has led to inmates coming to faith in Christ, being baptized, forming churches behind bars—and continuing to multiply disciples even after release. These practitioners share the key paradigm shifts that allowed multiplication to emerge in a context often approached with addition‑focused ministry. They reflect honestly on what had to change in mindset, leadership, and practice in order to see sustainable, Spirit‑led fruit. This conversation offers rare, practical insight for anyone involved in prison ministry, disciple‑making, or movement leadership. You’ll hear powerful stories and hard‑won wisdom from those working on the front lines of what may be one of the most overlooked—and significant—moves of God in the United States today. If you’ve ever wondered what disciple‑making looks like in places of confinement—or how multiplication can flourish where hope seems scarce—this episode will both challenge and encourage you.

  • #155
    April 28 · 44 min

    Walking With Survivors Toward Healing & Discipleship

    What does trauma‑aware disciple making actually look like—and how can it still multiply? In this episode of Dare to Multiply, Cynthia Anderson interviews a practitioner who walks closely with trauma survivors and has seen discipleship grow and multiply among them. Together they explore why safety, listening, and patience matter deeply when discipling those who carry trauma—and what this reveals about Jesus’ way of healing, obedience, and restoration. You’ll hear why rushing to Scripture can hinder healing, how grief and brokenness are not barriers to obedience, and how God often uses people who are healing to bless and disciple others. 🔗 Learn more: https://multiplyinghope.org 📩 To contact Hallie: hello@daretomultiply.com

  • #154
    April 21 · 24 min

    The Difference Between Teaching People About Jesus and Training Them to Follow Him

    In this episode, we explore a critical but often overlooked difference at the heart of disciple‑making. Jesus didn’t command us to simply transfer information. In the Great Commission, He tells us to teach people to obey everything He commanded—not just to know it. Using Matthew 28:20, a key Greek word study, and practical disciple‑making insight, we unpack why information‑based teaching often fails to produce transformation—and what it looks like to train people for obedience, practice, and replication. This conversation is especially for pastors, leaders, missionaries, and disciple‑makers who sense that content alone isn’t producing the fruit we long to see.

  • #153
    April 14 · 23 min

    Before There Were Buildings: What Actually Made the Early Church Grow

    What made the early church grow before there were buildings and programs? This episode explores Acts‑based insights on relational growth, obedience‑driven discipleship, and dependence on the Holy Spirit—and what that means for church leaders and movement practitioners today.

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