A disciple-making movement happens when…
- Ordinary people are consistently making disciples who then make more disciples
- The process is simple, reproducible, and not dependent on experts
- New disciples are quickly empowered to share and lead others
- Obedience to what is learned is prioritized over just knowledge
- The Gospel moves into new communities, rather than converts coming into Church buildings
- The movement continues to expand across communities and generations
- Brokenness in the community is healed
- Most importantly: movement is preceded and sustained by the Spirit moving in power.
To quote from frontier missions:
Disciples gather themselves into groups… [that] can meet anywhere, not only in homes. In some DMMs, groups meet in a tea shop or under a tree. The groups can be called discipleship groups, story groups, church groups, etc. The name is not important. What matters is that they are a group of people who are following Jesus and committed to obeying His commands together.
Whatever you call these groups of Jesus followers, in Disciple Making Movements (DMMs), they multiply quickly and start more groups.
The first generation group of disciples starts a second generation. Usually, more than one group is started from the first one. The second-generation groups do the same. True DMMs experience multiplication growth, not simply addition growth.
In a Disciple Making Movement, the emphasis is not on growing an ever increasingly large church, but on multiplying small groups of disciples who make disciples.
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