Hear real testimonies of a discipleship chain in India as Jesus-followers follow church planting movement best practices. Beyond acts to make disciples among unreached people groups around the world. The group collected stories from a lower caste in India demonstrating how normal people can make disciples who make disciples. People practicing this church planting movement … Continue reading
Churches need a radically different approach to make disciples among the majority of Westerners who no longer go to church and don’t even feel comfortable there. Many pastors and church leaders struggle to understand why improving on traditional church methods doesn’t usually yield enormous growth. Better small groups, welcome ministries, classes, music, and programs are … Continue reading
The Bible demonstrates God’s love for immigrants, refugees, and people from other cultures living in our midst. There is a lot of confusion among Jesus-followers about whether we should welcome people from other cultures in our societies. As always, we should look to the Bible for our example. Global Frontier Missions assembled a great video … Continue reading
Should we be helping refugees come to our neighborhoods? When we understand refugees and why they’ve chosen to come here, we can begin to feel the urgency to #welcomerefugees and help others join the movement. Normally, we share other people’s videos, but here is one we made ourselves. Imagine what life could be like with … Continue reading
Who in the world needs missions most? Churches and aspiring missionaries want to make a difference among the nations. But who in the world needs the most outreach right now? Global Frontier Missions (GFM) explains what the world looks like spiritually and where we need to send more missionaries and focus our giving. Watch more … Continue reading
What is an unreached people group? Glad you asked! There is a lot of discussion out there about unreached people groups, or UPGs. Many Christians still don’t quite understand them, often because many of us have never really spent much time among UPGs. Global Frontier Missions (GFM) explains UPGs and related terms to give us … Continue reading
We do missions because the nations of the world are close to God’s heart. Continue reading
The missions task remaining is great, and the reason why is convicting. Continue reading
For the sake of the world, burn like a fire in me. Continue reading
The story of how the unreached Druze, a Muslim people group, began to discover Jesus. Continue reading
Part two of how the gospel flowed from Pentecost to Edinburgh as told at Lausanne Cape Town 2010. Continue reading
Part one of how the gospel flowed from Pentecost to Edinburgh as told at Lausanne Cape Town 2010. Continue reading
Why the Church loves Muslims and the state deals with terrorists. Continue reading
Jesus taught us how to make disciples, and it’s all hands on deck. Continue reading
There are many reasons to make disciples in Muslim communities. Continue reading
Encounter three unreached people groups nestled in the Himalayas. Continue reading
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Teaching disciples takes your whole life. Continue reading
“God will [rescue His children] the way He said He would.” Continue reading
The Bible really does answer this question. Missions leader and pastor David Platt explains how Romans answers this age-old question that many prefer not to think about. If the Bible really does take this stance, what does this mean for how we live? Learn how to respond to the implications of this perspective in David … Continue reading
Unreached people groups need followers of Jesus on-site to explain the gospel. Continue reading
Looking for Discipleship Ideas? What if our approach to discipleship had less stuff, and more substance? What if it appealed to the lost because Jesus was the center of it? What if the gospel came to them? This great little video offers some great ideas to rethink our approach to the Great Commission. Put discipleship … Continue reading
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Our small groups are too different. Let’s rethink our traditional disciple making activities (i.e., small groups). How hard are we making it for outsiders to settle into our missional communities? Todd Engstrom from Austin Stone helps us reevaluate what we’ve always done. What ideas do you have? Learn more about missionary thinking in John Piper’s … Continue reading
I’m busy, but there are hidden ways to make disciples while doing what I’m already doing. Making disciples is hard work, but Caesar Kalinowski points out fun six ways to invite disciples into deeper relationship with Jesus and with you. The best part is that you already do these things. What would it look like … Continue reading
“I’ve counted up the cost, and You are worth it.” Continue reading
T4T visionary Ying Kai sits down with Rick Warren. Ying Kai talks through the genesis of T4T in China. Get Ying Kai’s book T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution. Learn more about T4T.
What is the Multiply gathering? Francis Chan and David Platt explain the vision for gathering together to do put Multiply into practice. Get Francis Chan’s book Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples. Learn more about Multiply.
Dedicated discipleship bears great fruit. This simple video demonstrates the incredible potential of disciples making disciples. While this is not a specific strategy, it does demonstrate the principle of reproducible discipleship. Grow in maturity and learn about discipling others while reading Dallas Willard’s The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God. Watch more videos … Continue reading
What is the Multiply material? Francis Chan and David Platt summarize what the Multiply material is. Get Francis Chan’s book Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples. Learn more about Multiply.
God awakens us to the best ideas. Francis Chan and David Platt share how God stirred them to develop Multiply. Get Francis Chan’s book Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples. Learn more about Multiply.
Where does boldness come from? When we pray, God give us the boldness we need. Get Francis Chan’s book Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples. Learn more about Multiply.
God fosters our response to Him. Multiply is not about responding to an emotional appeal with some little act. It’s about God changing our hearts to adopt a radical lifestyle shift towards wholehearted disciple making. Get Francis Chan’s book Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples. Learn more about Multiply.
“If I believe this, I should be talking about it more.” – Francis Chan If we truly believe the Bible, if we have decided to follow Jesus, then the natural result should be inviting others into the same kind of relationship. Get Francis Chan’s book Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples. Learn more about Multiply.
What does it look like when someone follows Jesus? Coming into God’s Kingdom brings life-change. One of these changes is making more disciples. Get Francis Chan’s book Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples. Learn more about Multiply.
What do disciples’ lives really look like? David Platt and Francis Chan suggest that true disciples make more disciples. Get Francis Chan’s book Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples. Learn more about Multiply.
Multiply is a tool to help Jesus’ followers make disciples. Pastors Francis Chan and David Platt discuss the vision and scriptural basis of Multiply. Get Francis Chan’s book Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples. Learn more about Multiply.
“Let is start with me.” Welcoming all the ethne will take all of us. Get Let It Start With Me. Watch more mission songs.
“My heart is the wick, your love is the flame, and I want to burn for your Name.” It’s a warm, beautiful privilege to burn for Jesus’s Name, His reputation among all peoples. The Wick is on Housefires II. Get Housefires II. More Mission Songs.
We dream of the day when all the ethne worship Jesus together. In Revelation 5:9, Jesus is extolled for saving people from every tribe, language, people, and nation. Kari Jobe’s Revelation Song offers a taste of that moment when Jesus’s fame reaches every ethne. Get Revelation Song and other great worship music by Kari Jobe. … Continue reading
“I will go; Lord send me.” Starfield totally captures the essence of Welcome Ethne. Get Starfield’s album I Will Go. Watch more.
We share Jesus’s story because the Bible is all about proclaiming it to the nations. Continue reading
People are called to different activities, but with equal passion. For all of us, answering the Great Commission requires an eternal perspective. Paul Washer encourages us to consider what offering we will bring with us when we die. Learn more about living for God and for the Gospel in Don’t Waste Your Life by John … Continue reading
Most of the world’s Muslims have not heard the whole story of Jesus. This video from Frontiers introduces some significant Muslim communities that need more exposure to Jesus. Would you consider going to one of these Muslim unreached people groups? Learn about introducing Muslim people groups to Jesus in A Wind In The House Of … Continue reading
There are many ways to foster a church planting movement. This helpful video overviews some of the distinctives between the major models of church planting: T4T and obedience-based discipleship. Learn more about disciple-making in Contagious Disciple Making: Leading Others on a Journey of Discovery by David Watson and Paul Watson. Watch more videos about Disciple-Making … Continue reading
God is using movements to change the world. The basic disciple-making movement process can be explained rather easily. This succinct video explains the disciple-making movement process in about 90 seconds. Learn more about church planting movements in Viral Churches: Helping Church Planters Become Movement Makers by Ed Stetzer and Warren Bird. Watch more videos about … Continue reading
Movements have some important characteristics. This secular TED talk from Derek Sivers explains some key lessons that can help aspiring church planters foster a multiplicative church planting movement. Watch more videos about movements.
What can we learn from the Bible about fostering movements? Act Beyond beautifully encapsulates a basic, reproducible approach fo disciple-making movements. Watch more videos about Disciple-Making Movements and the State of the World.
God is doing something unprecedented. Church Planting Movements (CPM) and Disciple-Making Movements (DMM) are reaching tens of thousands with the good news of Jesus. This is an exciting season of history. Act Beyond explains what is happening, and how to join God in fostering a movement. Watch more videos about Disciple-Making Movements and the State … Continue reading
This is an emergency. The world desperately needs Jesus, and the global Church needs to respond with urgency. John Piper shares some thoughts about missions, and Leland’s “Tears of the Saints” provides context for these amazing, occasionally heart-breaking images of the world. Watch more videos about the State of the World.
The world looks different from most American Christians think it does. This classic video lays out why the Church needs to approach missions with new eyes. By the way, Mission to Unreached Peoples is now Act Beyond. Check them out! Watch more videos about the State of the World.
T4T’s team-based approach offers valuable accountability. Continue reading
Reinforce some key elements of T4T with those you are discipling. David Garrison explains some valuable insights about becoming a fruitful witness using the Training for Trainers model. Learn more about Training 4 Trainers with T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution by Steve Smith. NEXT VIDEO >> Watch more videos about T4T.
Exhort your “doers of the Word.” David Garrison explains what to do in week 6 of Training for Trainers. This review of steps is critical to laying a strong foundation for a T4T-inspired movement. Remember, go slow at first to go fast later. Learn more about church planting movements in Steve Addison’s book What Jesus … Continue reading
Become a Church. Encourage your team to gather their Bible studies into Churches. David Garrison explains T4T’s important transition step from a group into a Church. Learn more about church planting movements in David Garrison’s book Church Planting Movements: How God Is Redeeming A Lost World. NEXT VIDEO >>. Watch more videos about T4T.
Who is God, really? Week four is a good opportunity to discuss who God is. David Garrison encourages us to adapt our presentation to the specific community of people with whom we’re sharing. Learn more about Training 4 Trainers with T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution by Steve Smith. NEXT VIDEO >> Watch more videos about T4T.
Foster a reproducible pattern of knowing and following Jesus. After some admonitions about not omitting elements of the weekly meeting, David Garrison explains lesson three in Training for Trainers. Even if you never see the people you’re discipling again, you can leave them with a basic model for studying Scripture. Learn more about church planting … Continue reading
Movements do not happen without abundant prayer. While it is easy to focus on the strategy in T4T, do not forget the prayer is the critical foundation of everything else. David Garrison explains how T4T prayer. Learn more about church planting movements in David Garrison’s book Church Planting Movements: How God Is Redeeming A Lost … Continue reading
Making disciples using T4T begins during the weekly meetings. David Garrison shares what to expect from the beginning of your gatherings, and how to proceed. Remember, you are fostering leaders of leaders. This is exciting! Learn more about Training 4 Trainers with T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution by Steve Smith. NEXT VIDEO >> Watch more videos … Continue reading
Sometimes our activity falls short of our intentions. And sometimes, we are surprised by the fruit. David Garrison continues this series about Training for Trainers (T4T) by explaining questions three and four. “Why should I do this?” and “What do I do if they say ‘Yes?’” Learn more about church planting movements in David Garrison’s … Continue reading
Everyone who wants to share the gospel wrestles with four questions. David Garrison explains how the early T4T trainees wrestled with these questions. Having good answers can turn followers of Jesus into disciple-makers. Learn more about Training 4 Trainers with T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution by Steve Smith. NEXT VIDEO >> Watch more videos about T4T.
God answered one man’s desperate prayers with a profound idea. Ying Kai was a church leader who wanted many to know Jesus. He asked God for help, and what happened next made history. Learn more about church planting movements in Steve Addison’s book What Jesus Started: Joining the Movement, Changing the World. NEXT VIDEO >> … Continue reading
“God may desire more for the community you are trying to reach.” T4T offers an effective way to reach many with the gospel of Jesus. David Garrison explains the T4T vision. Learn more about church planting movements in David Garrison’s book Church Planting Movements: How God Is Redeeming A Lost World. NEXT VIDEO >> Watch … Continue reading
Training for Trainers, or T4T, is a popular approach to making disciples who make disciples. David Garrison is one of T4T’s most prominent practitioners. He answers the question “What is T4T?” This introduction is part one of 13 training videos. Be sure to watch them all! Learn more about Training 4 Trainers with T4T: A … Continue reading
Instill courage instead of fear. A recent journey took me to a nation with a dangerous reputation. When I returned, many of my friends reported praying for my safety. Some said they couldn’t imagine going to that part of the world. I realized two things. First, these kinds of statements demonstrate that my friends love … Continue reading
I hear it a lot. “All of us are missionaries.” What they mean is, “We can make a difference right here.” And that is true. All of us are called to make disciples wherever we happen to be. However, I struggle with the phrasing. To me, not all disciple-making is the same. I’ve always considered … Continue reading
It happens every year. Someone I know will invariably hold a decade party. I rummage through my closet looking for dated clothing from the 70s, the 80s or the 90s. We listen to old music and reflect on the movies, TV shows and world events that defined that era. Modern Western culture changes every ten … Continue reading
I’ve learned a lot about how information spreads because of Twitter. I believe we can use the twitterverse as a metaphor for church planting movement (CPM) strategy. People of Peace Suppose I’m not a public figure and I only have a couple hundred followers. I can tweet often and tweet well, but I will only … Continue reading
Sometimes you read a quote that perfectly expresses something you’re feeling. “For the past few years, I have questioned the ability of the local church to transition into a church that can connect with the radically unchurched or de-churched people in its communities.” Bailey, Canter and Ferguson Ready?: Preparing for the Pressures of Church Planting … Continue reading
A friend from a region known for low church attendance recently posed the question, “Why is there so little church growth here when we have such a rich spiritual heritage?” I suggested many factors, like an angry enemy, an encroaching secularism and an endemic prayerlessness. These answers satisfied me for a while, but then I … Continue reading
Nice to meet you. My mind rarely sleeps. Whenever it tries, my heart keeps it awake. I have too many dreams for one lifetime, so I decided to start a blog to share my passions and ideas. I hope that God might inspire some of my readers to attempt great things for His Kingdom.
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