How Local Is Your Faith? | Becoming a Global Disciple Ep. 5
Global discipleship does not pull us away from local faithfulness. It sends us deeper into it.
Jason Watson closes Becoming a Global Disciple by asking a vital question: How local is your faith?
This episode explores why we need the local church, why the local church needs us, and how global discipleship becomes real through ordinary faithfulness in our communities.
A global faith must be locally rooted.
Episode 5 of Becoming a Global Disciple
A Lausanne Movement series on global faith, local church, and practical discipleship.
Episode Outline
00:00 Opening
00:54 How local is your faith?
01:09 Global discipleship and local discipleship
01:37 Jesus lived locally with a global vision
02:57 Locally rooted like Jesus
03:30 Why we need the local church
05:11 The body of Christ needs every part
05:31 I need the local church to thrive
06:08 The local church needs us too
07:52 Bringing global discipleship into your local church
08:38 The Great Commission gap
09:41 Become a bridge to the global church
09:53 Take one step in your local context
10:39 Information becomes transformation through application
11:03 Imagine a local church with global vision
12:01 It begins with one simple step
12:25 Go follow in Jesus’ footsteps
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Speaker's Bio
Jason Watson
Director of Content
Jason Watson serves as the Director of Content for the Lausanne Movement and hosts the Lausanne Movement Podcast. With over a decade of experience in pastoral ministry among millennials and Gen Z in Pretoria, South Africa, he is deeply committed to equipping the next generation to follow Christ and engage in God’s global mission. Jason previously served as campus pastor at Eastside Hatfield Church and holds a degree in theology from the Baptist Theological College of Southern Africa. He holds a Master’s in Organizational Leadership from California Baptist University.