Episode Overview
Corey and Brian wrap up the Missionary Pathway series with the final tool: What’s Next? Whether you've completed a Missionary Pathway training or are simply looking to continue growing as a disciple maker, this episode explores practical steps for ongoing fruitfulness in mission.
Key Takeaways
1. The Missionary Pathway is a Starting Point, Not the Finish Line
The 7-week training is a launching pad to embrace a disciple-making lifestyle, not a guarantee of immediate multiplication.
Fruitfulness often emerges over time as you pray, live on mission, and persevere in the journey.
“Low bar: You know your missional context. Huge win: You’re praying intentionally and seeing God at work.”
What’s Next? Practical Steps to Continue the Journey
Step 1: Identify Your Team and Community
Continue as a Team: Could your Missionary Pathway group become a team or microchurch? Who can you keep journeying with?
Join a Coaching Group: Find ongoing coaching and accountability for support, prayer, and encouragement.
Why Coaching Matters:
Encourages perseverance (stick-to-itiveness).
Provides accountability: “How are you and Jesus? How are you on mission?”
Keeps your mission focused and intentional.
“Disciple making is not an individual sport—it’s a team journey.”
Types of Teams (based on context and relationships):
Partner Up: Start with one or two others (spouse, close friends, etc.).
Shared Mission Team: Partner with others in the same missional context (e.g., neighborhood, workplace).
Scattered Mission Team: Gather for support and prayer, then scatter to various contexts.
Prayer Team: If you’re on your own, build a team of people who will cover you in prayer.
Step 2: Join a Coaching Group
Coaching provides ongoing community, accountability, and tools to keep moving forward.
Practical Benefits of Coaching:
Encouragement when you feel stuck.
Real-time problem-solving for challenges in your mission.
A place to share wins, pray together, and grow.
Step 3: Re-Engage with the Missionary Pathway
Take It Again: Go through the Missionary Pathway with a new group—invite others to join you.
Facilitating for others deepens your own learning and helps you reproduce disciple makers.
Why Repeat the Pathway?
Reinforces a missional lifestyle.
Creates momentum for disciple-making multiplication.
“As you teach others, you grow yourself. Facilitation helps you embrace the lifestyle even more deeply.”
Step 4: Form a Missional Team
Build a team around a shared context, vision, and strategy.
Use the Missional Team Checklist to clarify your purpose and rhythms:
Where has God sent us?
How are we joining Him?
What rhythms of prayer and engagement will we commit to?
Simple Steps to Launch a Team:
Build a team around a clear vision and mission.
Develop shared rhythms of prayer, accountability, and action.
Be specific about how you’ll engage your context and live on mission together.
“Don’t just say, ‘We’ll love people.’ Be specific: What does the kingdom look like in this place? How will you engage tangibly?”
Real-Time Stories of Multiplication
From the Harvest: A young woman reading a family Bible in a coffee shop gets connected with a disciple maker, learns about Jesus, and begins reaching her own friends.
Natural Multiplication: A microchurch member invites a friend to experience their gathering with the intent of starting a new group with their own community.
“Multiplication happens naturally when disciples are empowered to start where they are, with the people they know.”
Key Reminders
Find Your People: You can’t do this alone—form a team or coaching group.
Be Patient and Persistent: Fruitfulness takes time. Keep praying, listening, and joining God where He’s at work.
Embrace the Long Game: Missionary Pathway isn’t a sprint—it’s a way of life. Keep enduring and trusting God for the harvest.
🔗 Resources Mentioned:
Missionary Pathway: missionarypathway.com
Toolkit: kcunderground.org/toolkit
Missional Team Checklist: Included in the toolkit for team building and vision clarity.
