How to start Conversational Learning on Sundays

How to start Conversational Learning on Sundays

Why watch this video? We're losing 16 churches every day in America - not because people stopped loving God, but because they stopped being able to ask a question. This video traces Jesus' conversational learning model back to the rabbi Hillel, and shows why talmid means becoming more and more like Jesus, not just learning ABOUT Him. Gravitas, Life, Love, and Leading form a step-by-step system built toward one goal: community transformation. See how it all connects, then visit CSASNetwork.org.

57 Minutes: How to Start Conversational Learning on Sundays

Rick KroegerThursday, October 1, 2026

Why watch this video? We're losing 16 churches every day in America - not because people stopped loving God, but because they stopped being able to ask a question. This video traces Jesus' conversational learning model back to the rabbi Hillel, and shows why talmid means becoming more and more like Jesus, not just learning about him. Gravitas, Life, Love, and Leading form a step-by-step system built toward one goal: community transformation. See how it all connects, then visit CSASNetwork.org.

Clip 11: The 5 steps to Community Transformation

Rick KroegerWednesday, September 30, 2026

If people don't care, we won't make any progress. We won't go from 12 to 70 to 500 in our churches. And then how will our churches join together to do the same thing? But what if the churches join together? Next thing you know, we've got 500 in this church, 500 in that church - all getting involved in their community...

Clip 10: Scale the 12 70 500 Model to any size church

Rick KroegerWednesday, September 30, 2026

This closing teaching ties it all together: becoming a child of God rather than just "getting in," why Jesus' yoke is easy even when the calling is large, and a practical structure for scaling conversational discipleship - breaking Sunday into rooms, giving every staff member and elder their own 12 - so even a mega-church can multiply the way Jesus did.

Clip 9: Build Trust, then transform your community

Rick KroegerWednesday, September 30, 2026

Trust comes before truth. This clip lays out a practical, five-step approach to community engagement - serving first, building real relationships, and letting gospel conversations grow naturally out of trustworthiness rather than being forced.

Clip 8: Ezekiel 34:1-16 Why the European church model is not sustainable

Rick KroegerWednesday, September 30, 2026

God's rebuke of the shepherds in Ezekiel 34 has a direct parallel to today's church decline. This clip explains how the enemy worked to replace conversational Sabbath learning with individualistic preaching once the church left Israel for Europe - and introduces the fifth step: community transformation.

Clip 7: The 12 70 500 Multiplication Model

Rick KroegerWednesday, September 30, 2026

Jesus didn't try to personally teach the masses - He focused on 12, and multiplication did the rest. This clip breaks down the full 12-to-70-to-500 model, why one-on-one, life-on-life discipleship outperforms mass teaching, and how it led to 3,000 conversions at Pentecost.

Clip 6: How we lost the Sabbath: Why we're closing16 churches per day

Rick KroegerWednesday, September 30, 2026

One of the Ten Commandments says "keep holy the Sabbath" - and this clip traces how that got lost when the church moved from Israel to Europe, why the great cathedrals now stand nearly empty, and how that same pattern is driving 16 church closures a day in the United States.

Clip 5: What the Sabbath actually looked like in Jesus' Day

Rick KroegerWednesday, September 30, 2026

Six hundred people, open questions, rabbis and talmidim in real conversation - this clip reconstructs what a first-century Sabbath gathering actually looked like, and how it explains why Peter, James, John, and Andrew dropped their nets the instant Jesus called them.

Clip 4: The Beatitudes, Jesus' Attitudes, Fruit of the Spirit and Why Manipulate To Control Never Works

Rick KroegerWednesday, September 30, 2026

This is the theological core of the whole teaching: the Beatitudes as Jesus' foundational way of life, the Garden of Eden as the model for how God relates to us without control, and why judgment, condemnation, and intimidation never produce lasting change - only love does.

Clip 3: The real meaning of disciple - from Hillel to Jesus

Rick KroegerWednesday, September 30, 2026

100 years before Jesus, a rabbi named Hillel started something new in three small towns near the Sea of Galilee - the first rabbi-disciple model in Jewish history. This clip traces that history into Jesus' ministry and unpacks the Hebrew word talmid, showing why "disciple" never meant student - it meant someone becoming just like their rabbi.

Clip 2: Do you have to change your whole service?

Rick KroegerWednesday, September 30, 2026

You don't have to abandon your worship set, communion, or your congregation's traditions to bring back conversational learning. This clip walks through exactly what changes - removing the one-way sermon - and what stays, plus how to handle open-ended service times without losing your congregation early.

Clip 1: Safely Start Conversational Learning on Sundays

Rick KroegerWednesday, September 30, 2026

Every pastor worried about shifting from a sermon to conversational learning has the same fear: the disruptive voice at the annual meeting. In this clip, learn why weekly, moderated conversation - rooted in the attitudes of Jesus from John 17 - defuses conflict before it explodes, and how to lead a congregation through it with humility instead of control.