Dungeons & Disciples

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Tony Benda 0:19
Welcome everyone to our season two trailer for Dungeons and disciples. My name is Tony Benda. I am Joshua Shaw, and we have a lot of information to share with you. When I say we, I specifically mean Josh, and he has put together all this info, and I'm gonna let him just share away, because it's good stuff. And here he is. Enjoy our season two trailer

Josh Shaw 0:43
in 2024 we journeyed into an endeavor of starting a podcast dedicated to bringing the light of Jesus into the TTRPG community, and the particular gateway we chose was Dungeons and Dragons. Since this journey started in May of 2024 we have grown and learned so much, month by month, we dedicated time to the Word of God, content creation and personal fellowship between ourselves. We have seen the fruit of the Holy Spirit in this podcast, nearly surpassing 1700 downloads and reaching 44 states within the US and 14 other countries around the world. First, we praise God for such an accomplishment and for his continued guidance and hand over this podcast ministry by His grace. We have endured many trials in our own personal lives, and those trials have only continued to inspire us to create more honest biblical and fruit bearing content. We are so excited what the Lord has in store for 2025 to our listeners, we thank you for your continued prayers and support, your continued listens, downloads, encouraging emails, voice memos and always constantly sharing with others keeps us encouraged to keep this going in 2025 you can expect even more exciting content, more guest hosts and new opportunities that we desire to see come to fruition. So you're probably asking, what's next, then, for Dungeons and disciples, we have so many goals in mind, but we do take these goals into careful consideration and lean into the guidance of the Holy Spirit, for he desires for us. So for 2025 we, as dungeons and disciples have three simple goals to achieve. One, develop a more consistent prayer lifestyle for all aspects of this ministry. This podcast will be founded on the very principle of faith, something that Jesus taught his disciples, and his disciples continually asked for we as dungeons and disciples are going to continue to pray for God to give us more content, for God to keep bearing the fruit in this content and through these conversations, and continue to see where he wants us to go next with it, making ourselves available to where he needs us to be. Two, develop stronger social media presence to spread the Good News of the Gospel by sharing of this content, this process will involve a more active response to direct messages via various platforms and emails. We desire to continue to share this content through Facebook Instagram, so we encourage you to continue to following those pages. If you need our email, listen to any of our episodes where we provide all of our email and socials at the very end, and we continue to go on to these platforms and to share, share, share with it. Because without you guys, without the other people spreading the gospel, who is going to ever hear this message? It is through your continued spread that this message keeps going further and further and further. Finally, number three, develop a stronger and more unified relationship with our listeners. We do this by prioritizing more active conversations, local community engagement and follow ups with others to keep these relationships active. Many of our current listeners have sent us emails, and we do our very best to respond to those as quickly and efficiently as possible. You can expect to see that if, as emails come in, we desire to chat with you, whether that's through various platforms such as zoom or even discord, we will make it happen no matter what, because we desire to continue to build these relationships with you, and we as dungeons and disciples, are going to try to make it a goal to have more local community engagement, such as with our own active card shops, game stores, and even small things like farmers markets. We want to continue to show the community who we are, not just necessarily about the downloads, not just necessarily about the content that we do, but by continuously involving ourselves, by spreading the gospel message to people that need it in this community the most. And honestly, there are so many goals that we have for the future, but we want to ensure that we spend our first full year in the foundations of what the Bible calls us to, that being prayer, building relationships and the spreading of his gospel and. So in this kind of profession, it can be easy to focus on the numbers, the finance, research methods to ensure success, and so many other things that may be available. However, we focus on being servants of Christ, because, as it says in First Corinthians, chapter three, verse seven, the one who plants and the one who waters really does not matter. It is God who matters because he makes the plant grow by His provision and grace, He has grown this ministry, whether we have 18 listeners or 18,000 we desire for all to receive the Word and let the Lord speak into your life to help grow others into where they are called, leading each heart to a state of repentance and obedience and following what the Lord has for us, you will see that every year in the month of December that there will be no published content. I'm going to repeat that for everybody in the month of December, every year from here on forth, there will be no published content. Why? You may be asking, this is so that Tony and I can take a month of Sabbath rest from content creation and spend much needed time with family and friends, enjoying the season for what it is, and come back to content creation with clear minds and refreshed hearts. So how can you our amazing listeners, contribute to our mission, vision and goals? For one, join us in prayer over this podcast ministry, as we dedicate ourselves to prayer, we would love if you would start praying with us. Without the power of the Holy Spirit, it will not produce the fruit we desire to see, and all this will fail on our own strength. Number two, share, share, share, as we continue to have a bigger influence in social media, we need your guys' help to share this content as well. You see, this podcast is merely a seed, no matter where someone is in their walk. Share this episode with somebody. Share every episode with somebody, and let that be the starting point of conversation. I love to say it in podcasts and even just my own wisdom, what you share and how you act towards others that may not know. Christ may be the only Bible that they ever read. And three, reach out to us. We want to talk and build relationships with you and those who share the content with we are not perfect people, and we do have busy lives. We can't promise an immediate response, but we ask that you would allow us the opportunity to reach back out to you. We will always desire to talk, pray and get to know others in about their stories. We continue to lean on the scripture that started this journey off for us all, Revelation, chapter 12, verse 11, says, and they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives, even unto death. These stories we tell are vital to our walk and to the beginning steps of others as we continue to walk in His love, faithfulness and guidance. Join us as we walk into 2025 even though we may be a little bit into it already with fresh hearts and minds, and know that you are appreciated and loved more than you can ever realize. One final thought, we end this message today by telling you how we're going to end every episode from here on out, and it's going to end with an invitation of this one question, who can you invite to the game table with you? With that all mind, Welcome to Season Two of dungeons and disciples.