Brad Watson serves as an equipping leader at Soma Culver City in Los Angeles where he develops and teaches leaders to form communities that love God and serve the city. He is the author of multiple books including Sent Together: How the Gospel Sends Leaders to Start Missional Communities. He holds a degree in theology from Western Seminary.
Episode 038: How to Equip a Community to Abide in Christ
In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson and Jared Pickney dive into the powerful calling of Jesus to abide in him. Sharing personal stories, insights, and practical wisdom; this episode will equip everyday disciples and leaders to abide…
Episode 037: The Power of Missional Community Leader Coaching
In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson and David Achata talk about the the powerful tool of coaching for leaders and churches. Then, they dive into a real scenario as David coaches Brad as he would any leader.…
Episode 036: Leading a Missional Community Without “Superstar” Christians
In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson talks with Jared Pickney about how to lead a missional community that has people with varying levels of belief, maturity, and buy-in.
Episode 035: How to Share Leadership in a Missional Community
In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson talks with Jared Pickney about the vision behind sharing leadership and how to practically share roles and responsibilities in a missional community. Check out this free resource: Missional Community Teamwork.
In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson talks with Duke Revard, the director of the Soma Family of Churches, about the implications and importance of developing leaders at every level and why we struggle to do that in…
Episode 33: How the Gospel Comes to Students and Parents
In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson talks with Tim Parlier, Saturate's student specialist, about how high school students grow in the gospel through relationships and how parents are the primary disciple-makers of students.
Episode 32: How Lent Can Be Powerful in Missional Communities
In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson talks with Saturate team member, Sunee Hillyer, about why Lent can be a powerful season in the life of a missional community. Join Bran and Sunee
Episode 31: How to Include Not Yet Believers in Missional Community
In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson talks with Jeff and Ali Lowndes who have led and multiplied missional communities in Los Angeles ...
Episode 30: Speaking the Truths of Jesus in Life, Part 2
In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson brings you part two of the live gospel fluency training by Jeff Vanderstelt. This training helps disciples learn how to point people to Jesus through their relationships and conversations. …
A leader welcomes people into the mess of it and works with a community to figure out how they will do it together. Leadership is such a strange thing, especially in the West. The position of leadership is idolized…
Episode 29: Speaking the Truths of Jesus in Life, Part 1
In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson shares the audio of Jeff Vanderstelt teaching on Gospel Fluency at an event in Los Angeles, California.
In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson talks with Jeff Vanderstelt about 2017 and what God is doing in and through Saturate. They share stories, lessons learned, and prayers for the future.
Guest post by Rusty Langford, pastor at Matthew's Table I believe even the process itself of thinking together of how to grow in our love for God, one another, and our neighbors is formative as people seeking to be…
In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson and Jared Pickney walk through the nuts and bolts of multiplying communities, answering: why, when, who, and how.
Episode 023: How Artists Engage Community and Mission
In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson talks with writer and Saturate Podcast editor Ben Fort about serving artists, comedy, and creating within the framework of creation, fall, and redemption.
We pray for his resurrection hope in every moment of death. We pray for his great reconciliation in the face of every sin. We pray for his advancement and victory over every kind of evil. You don’t have to…
Jeff Vanderstelt and Ben Connelly, wrote Gospel Fluency Handbook: A Practical Guide to Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life for those who’ve realized they disbelieve God, His goodness and His gospel in areas of…
Coaching is essential for a sustained missional community movement. If you are committed to decentralized discipleship, you must make ongoing investments in leaders. We call this coaching—a process of pulling out what the Holy Spirit has already put inside…
In this episode of The Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson and Jared Pickney discuss how the gospel motivates them for living a life in community and on mission. They also discuss ways to remind ourselves of the gospel daily and pitfalls…
In this episode of The Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson hosts special guest Daniel Im to discuss his new book: No Silver Bullets. Their conversation dives into the research and concepts driving his book and how leadership is more about micro…
In this episode of The Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson and Jared Pickney dive into the challenges of choosing a common mission. But they also offer the hope of stories, key principles, and essential components to actually share mission. See these…
In this episode of The Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson and Jared Pickney discuss the role of leadership, how you know if you're called to be a leader, what a leader does, and why the idea of leadership is so challenging…
In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson is joined by Saturate co-founder and visionary leader, Jeff Vanderstelt to talk about his passion for the mission of Saturate. The also talk about what they see God doing in the Church today…
It's Labor Day, which means summer officially comes to a close, and we all gear up for the "normal" life that fall brings. The summer has been really busy for us, too, and we want to highlight a few of…
I understand the vision, and I understand the principles of missional communities. I’m bought in! But what is my scope and sequence I need to work through to transition our small groups into missional communities? With so many resources, primers,…
Not only did we repent and believe the gospel publicly, we also walked in redemption and healing. We set our sights on learning from Jesus what it meant to follow Him while serving His church. As pastors, we must…
On this episode of The Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson and David Achata share the purpose and power of prayerfully planning within a disciple's life. This skill can be learned as we increasingly learn to submit to the Spirit of God.…
How can we encourage and equip our people to have more frequent and deeper gospel conversations in the everyday rhythms of life? In this episode of The Saturate Podcast, Todd Morr joins Brad to share a few of the…
Repentance is likely something you are used to suggesting to someone in your church or something you typically do after a fight with your spouse or impatience with your children. Have you ever repented of the darkness in your…
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