NT Movements, Author at Pursuing Disciple Making Movements in the Frontiers

Effective movement leaders and trainers are extremely focused. They carefully guard their time and priorities so they can train and disciple well. Leveraging key routines, they recognize that their time is one of their most precious resources.

The follow post is a guest post written by a colleague from South Asia. She is mentoring hundreds of disciple-makers and leaders. This article is born out of experience and filled with wisdom for us.

Goals Alone Don’t Get You There

Simply having the goal of a DMM is not enough. Many people have those kinds of dreams, but only a few ever see their vision fulfilled. Those who see goals fulfilled don’t focus only on the goals. Rather they put into place key habits that they do on a daily, weekly, and on a monthly basis. The progress they make every day may not be very big, but over time they accomplish big things. read more

Faith Inspiration

Could the Harvest Be Ripe When the Ground Feels So Hard?

By NT Movements on Sunday, July 4, 2021

The title for this short article could have been “dealing with our feelings about a small harvest.” Imagine if we were to discuss face-to-face, “What problems are there with the harvest in my area?” We likely would spend much time discussing issues related to the small size of the harvest. Instead, what if we were soon talking about issues and difficulties caused by an amazingly ripe and plentiful harvest!

In the last few posts, we have been looking at mindset shifts that need to happen if we are to see the release of Disciple Making Movements. One of these is changing our mindset from thinking “my people group or area is too resistant to see a DMM.” Instead, we must embrace what Jesus told His disciples. The harvest is ripe in every people group. read more

Books & Movies Inspiration

Experiencing God As He Prepares For A DMM Around You

By NT Movements on Sunday, April 11, 2021

At first, the Bible study looked overly simple. I thought I already knew the Biblical truths presented. Perhaps I did know most of it. God wanted me to experience those spiritual realities, even though I did not make it a priority at the time. The name of the life-changing study was Experiencing God.

A Bit of Background

Rewind a few years earlier.

I did not grow up in a family of Christ-followers. A classmate in high school first shared the good news of God’s kingdom with me back in 1984. My friend, Tyler, looked like the other teenagers around me. I could tell there was something different about him —a sense of peace and purpose. read more

Church Planting Discipleship

How Can Local New Testament Churches Challenge Us Today?

By NT Movements on Sunday, July 12, 2020

In previous posts, we looked at the characteristics of Jesus’ movement. We also looked at the movement the apostles continued in Jerusalem. As the movement developed, we see what local assemblies (house churches) looked like. This adds to our understanding of New Testament movements. As we study the scripture below, we can examine our existing views of the church. Let us try to see the passage from the perspective of the early disciples, instead of our own.

What did the disciples in Jerusalem regularly do?

A summary of what the disciples regularly did in their local context, Jerusalem, is found in Acts 2:41-47. read more

Church Planting Generational growth

How Did the Apostles Turn the World Upside Down?

By NT Movements on Sunday, May 3, 2020

A few months ago, we looked at the characteristics of Jesus’ Movement. The most important foundation of all we do in DMMs should be what Jesus taught and did, not Peter or Paul. After reflecting on Jesus’ ways of working, we can learn much from His disciples as well,

Let’s discover some basic characteristics of the Jerusalem movement, led by Peter and the earliest apostles. This movement began after Jesus rose again.

What did the Jerusalem Movement look like?

We’ll look at seven characteristics that affected the apostle’s fruitfulness.These reflect the idea that Peter and the apostles were disciples of Jesus, and followed what He taught and did. We should remember that teaching and practice were integrated. They should not be separated. read more

Church Planting Discipleship Generational growth Leadership Strategy

What Can We Learn from Jesus’ Movement?

By NT Movements on Sunday, March 1, 2020

This week I’m privileged to introduce you to a fellow trainer and coach. In this short video, he addresses the question of how DMMs grow, strictly from a New Testament perspective. In Disciple Making Movements, everything we do and train others to do needs to be built on the foundation of what we see in the life of Jesus.

I hope you will watch this video and gain insights into what we can learn about movements from Jesus himself. He writes further about it in the text that follows.

It was 2011. Having done church planting work since 1997, and planted one church in an unreached area, I received training about a new approach. It was called Church Planting Movements, or Disciple Making Movements (DMM). read more