Have you wondered how to make disciples that truly multiply? Do you feel like your current approach to disciple making isn’t leading to the kind of growth you desire? You’re not alone.
Many Christians are searching for a simple, reproducible, and powerful way to follow the Great Commission and share the Good News of Jesus Christ.
How can you take your discipling to the next level?
If you are serious about moving beyond simple addition and into spiritual multiplication, this article will clarify the key concepts of effective evangelism that lead to thriving house churches.
In this post, you will learn:
- What is a disciple making movement (DMM)?
- What is a church planting movement (CPM)?
- How are CPMs and DMMs related?
- Why DMM strategy works among the least reached
- How you can get involved
Ready to explore how you can be part of multiplying disciples that transforms communities and nations? Keep reading!
What Is a Disciple Making Movement (DMM)?
Here is our disciple making movement definition: It is a rapid and exponential increase in disciples making disciples. This movement spreads wide and deep to at least 4 generations and beyond.
This means a disciple makes another disciple who follows Jesus, etc — to the 4th level. And disciples do this with many people and groups of people, who then learn to make disciples who also reproduce.
In the West, we often think about discipleship as 1 believer mentoring another “to know” some truths and get grounded in the Bible. However, disciple making movements focus on teaching new believers “to obey” the Bible and make new disciples.
What Is a Church Planting Movement (CPM)?
A common definition for a church planting movement is, “A rapid and exponential increase of indigenous churches planting churches within a given people group or population segment.” (David Garrison, Church Planting Movements)
Others may say it includes a hundred churches that started in 3 years and goes 4 generations deep. This means 1 church has planted another, which has planted, etc — to the 4th level.
No matter what, a church planting movement is the Holy Spirit bringing spiritual awakening to a people group. Like a fast and powerful wave, it is out of our control, but it is definitely within God’s.
While we recognize a church planting movement as an act of God, we also recognize there are effective ways of doing ministry.
Our Seed Week Mission Trips offer you a taste of this outreach and DMM training. You will receive hands on tools, skills, and experiences to take home and continue making disciples in your local community.
How Are Church Planting Movements and Disciple Making Movements Related?
While many workers focus on church planting, the Bible never commands believers to start a church. Rather, believers are commanded to make disciples.
Problems with disciple making movements can be rooted in getting things out of order.
In some ways, focusing on starting churches is like putting the cart before the horse. Our primary task as followers of Jesus is to make disciples.
By studying God’s word, when we teach new disciples the values of the church, new churches will naturally begin.
The more simple something is, the more reproducible it is. The opposite is also true.
The more complex, the less reproducible. When new disciples have a simple paradigm of church, they are more likely to form a church planting movement. The converse is true as well.
Our strategy is to make disciples who make disciples who make disciples. It’s more than being an evangelist. It’s about being a disciple maker.
Often, after outreach, we employ discovery groups and Discovery Bible Studies (DBS) that turn into house churches. In our methodology, we emphasize obedience based discipleship.
We are also committed to an extremely simple and highly reproducible paradigm of church. So, we work toward and pray for disciple making movements that lead to church planting movements among diaspora Unreached People Groups (UPGs).
Why DMM Strategy Works Among the Least Reached
Millions of people from Unreached People Groups live in North America and Europe.
We consider a people group unreached when there is no indigenous community of Jesus’ followers able to engage this people group with church planting. Technically speaking, in a UPG less than 2 percent of the population actively follows Jesus.
When they take the Gospel back to their countries of origin, we get the Good News of Jesus Christ into parts of the world that are otherwise closed.
For example, we don’t want to create a Muslim convert in isolation. Rather, we want to disciple an entire household (or small group) and their community to follow Jesus.
This contagious disciple making gets the Gospel to the ends of the earth.
Disciple Making Movement Training
We’ve designed our missionary training programs in New York City to teach participants like you the underlying ministry paradigms that lead to disciple making and church planting movements.
We also train participants in the hands on ministry skills and best practices that lead to church planting movements. We’re not training missionaries to reach 1 person with the Gospel – we’re training them to reach thousands.
In other words, we train our people to plant their first church so it can spontaneously reproduce itself within a people group. With over 52 Unreached People Groups in New York City, there is plenty of work to do!
Our vision is to see disciple making and church planting movements happen among all the Unreached People Groups in international cities like New York and the 7,000 Unreached People Groups around the world!1
Our vision is to see the body of Christ grow disciples from among diaspora unreached groups eventually engage their families and friends in their home countries, starting organic and spontaneously reproducing churches in every nation for rapid multiplication.
Get Involved
Training is a crucial part of a disciple making movement. One could say a disciple making movement is a training movement.
In many ways, we need to recover from our old way of thinking and relearn what it means to be a disciple of Jesus. We need to learn how to make disciples.
Our 10 Month Equip Missionary Training is 100 percent focused on making disciples who make disciples.
With coaches, mentors, and trainers to help you, you will receive training to initiate a church planting movement in an Unreached People Group in New York City.
Join us in making disciples among the Unreached People Groups in the various diaspora communities around the world.
You’ll learn how to identify persons of peace who will be influential for the Kingdom of God. God can use you to form obedient disciples into indigenous leaders among their own peoples.
You can be a multiplier!
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