This week, I read we have discovered a new galaxy, the largest ever. It is 65m light years across. How do they even measure such things? In a children’s Bible recently, I read that God spoke everything that exists out of nothing, but then was extremely pained when we stopped trusting him and did what we thought was best. I have been thinking about that almost constantly ever since.

We are repeatedly told that nothing is impossible for God – not anything. Jonah went and preached to the city of Nineveh, and the entire nation tore their clothes in repentance turning their hearts toward God. He sets up Kings, removes them, changes nations, destroys them, rebuilds them, converts cities, does impossible things through ordinary people and many other things which we have no trouble believing. Until it comes to our own situation, having our own city transformed.

More than anything else, disciple making is about our personal relationship with God. Just as in that children’s Bible, God wants us first and foremost to see him as he really is – our heavenly Father who loves us, in fact all of us, and wants us back. He wants us to walk with him, talk with him, lean on him and trust him that he can start a movement anywhere at anytime and bring it to fruition. Even  without us.

There’s a small phrase in disciple making that says, “you teach what you know, and disciple who you are.” We can easily teach somebody something and then go and do the opposite. But it is much more difficult to disciple somebody without them seeing who you really are. Are we so tied in with our Father, that he sees us fit – along with others, to lead a movement?

As I look at the 2,000 or so movements around the world, I see this more than any tool or method. Someone, or a small group fell in love with God, and grew in intimacy with him to such an extent that he blessed them with a movement. Rather than focus on the movement, their faces were on him first and foremost, just as Jesus’ were.

Do we really believe God can or even wants to? If so, what hinders us, how is he trying to speak to us and draw us to him so that when movement happens, they can see his Son radiant as the head? That, as far as I can tell, is what movement is mostly about.