The Disciple Maker‘s Podcast Engage with Multiplication Training | e3 Partners
Feb 4, 2026
Don Waybright, an experienced disciple-making practitioner with E3 Partners, teaches simple, reproducible tools for gospel sowing and church formation. He explains movement phases and risks of formalization. He outlines a five-part missionary framework, repeatable entry tools like Three Circles, obedience-based discipleship, and models for releasing authority across the church.
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Four Phases Explain Church Decline
- Movements follow four phases: unreached, movement, formalization, institutionalization.
- Kingdom DNA (priesthood, gospel sowing, obedience-based discipleship) is lost as movements institutionalize.
Bike-Riding Example For Coaching
- Don compared discipleship to teaching his granddaughter to ride a bike using model-assist-watch-launch.
- The child gains confidence, then joy, when the trainer gradually releases control.
Institutionalization Creates Cultural Distance
- Institutional churches shift authority to pastor-teachers and build systems that measure 'butts and bucks.'
- That shift creates church culture distant from the language and needs of lost communities.
