#194: How Crosspoint Changed Its Culture & Started a Movement Across the Global Methodist Church

Key takeaways

Faith-powered movement: Leading with faith and taking the next faithful step are essential for creating a disciple-making movement that God can bless and multiply.
Focus on individual roles: Helping people discover and live out their unique roles in God's mission transforms lives and leads to a healthier, more effective church culture.
Cultural shift requires repentance and humility: Leadership involves recognizing past shortcomings and faithfully moving toward a new vision inspired by Jesus' call to make disciples.
Ambitious goals can inspire action: Big, audacious goals like 2,000 roles and 500 churches motivate and guide movement-building efforts, trusting God for the results.
God’s faithfulness exceeds expectations: Small, faithful steps aligned with hope can lead to enormous spiritual impact over time, as exemplified by Crosspoint’s journey.

Summary

The Heart of Crosspoint’s Transformation

This section explores the foundational shift at Crosspoint Church towards a disciple-making culture. Jeremy Smith shares his personal journey, which began with a reflection prompted by a question about the kind of disciples being made, leading to a profound period of repentance and cultural change. The church transitioned from program-centric growth to focusing on making disciples who make disciples, emphasizing the importance of multiplying disciple-makers rather than just increasing numbers. The narrative highlights the commitment to move from a traditional church model to a movement rooted in Wesleyan disciple-making principles, and the leadership’s faith-driven approach to setting ambitious goals, such as the 2035 dream for spiritual renewal and church multiplication.

Leadership and Cultural Shift at Crosspoint

Jeremy Smith and Jagger Eastman discuss their leadership transitions, emphasizing humility, trust, and faith. Jeremy reflects on the challenge of stepping behind a beloved founding pastor, and Jagger shares how the process revealed his gifting for systematizing and implementing vision. Both leaders talk about the importance of D-Group multiplication, disciple story methodology, and the role of teaching and leadership gifts in fostering a movement of disciple-making. They emphasize the necessity of faith—taking the next faithful step—and how their efforts have led to measurable growth in disciple roles, public professions of faith, and church planting. Their story illustrates a shifting paradigm from program management to empowering individuals in their unique roles in God's mission.

The Reawakening Initiative and Future Visions

The core motivation behind the Reawakening Initiative is to revive the Wesleyan DNA of disciple-making within the church. Crosspoint and its leaders have partnered widely across the Global Methodist Church, with ongoing conferences and training that focus on re-igniting the church's mission at every level. Jeremy and Jagger share inspiring stories of personal and community transformation—such as individuals discovering their unique roles, stepping into new leadership areas, and impacting their families and communities. They detail their big goals for 2035, including 2,000 unique roles named and lived out, 3,000 first-time professions of faith, and 500 churches actively involved in disciple-making movements. The leaders emphasize the importance of faith, obedience, and the next faithful step, trusting that God’s provision and blessing will accompany their efforts.

Show notes

In this episode, Jeremy Smith and Vick Green are joined by Jagger Eastman to share the story of Crosspoint Church’s growth and realignment around disciple-making. Discover how addressing misalignment and simplifying strategy helped their church move toward a more unified and effective disciple-making culture.

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