WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE TO MAKE DISCIPLES IN THE CONTEXT OF A DISCIPLE MAKING MOVEMENT?

• NOT A METHOD BUT A PROCESS
• fits with what we see Jesus doing in the Gospels, and what we see Paul and the Early Church practicing, in Acts and the Epistles
• focuses on making disciples, not converts
• focuses on a discovery process in Scripture to learn, obey and share, not just teaching information and church doctrines
• key element is obedience to what God is saying through the Scriptures
• works through networks of relationships and families as we see in the Book of Acts
• produces a Disciple Making Movement that continues making disciples until the whole world is reached
• is led by God, powered by the Holy Spirit through the obedience of his disciples
• is catalyzed (initiated) by outside leaders, who develop inside leaders to multiply and sustain the movement.

Questions for reflection and action:

1. Are you willing and ready to make disciples, teaching them to obey and baptizing those who come to faith in Christ?
2. What areas might the Lord want you to strengthen in your lifestyle as an obedient disciple?
3. What area might the Lord want you to strengthen in your lifestyle of making disciples?

Our core DNA elements for launching a movement are these:

Prayer

Dependency on the Holy Spirit

Discovery of the Scriptures

Ordinary people

Obedience

Replication

Coaching the process

Leadership development

Constantly engaging with the lost

There are three phases of a DMM movement: starting, multiplying and sustaining.

“Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father” (John 14:12)

From Cabbages in the Desert: How God Transformed a Devout Muslim and Catalyzed Disciple Making Movements among Unreached Peoples by Tasse, Aila; Coles, Dave

What do you think?

Are you willing to try it?