Tag Archives: generational growth in DMMs
Discipleship Facing Obstacles Strategy

When a Disciple Making Group Falls Apart

By on Tuesday, June 21, 2022
group falls apart

Starting your first disciple making group is a milestone. You found someone willing to read the Bible with you. They’ve invited friends or family members and you begin. It’s exciting! That is why it can be quite disappointing when that group falls apart or discontinues. What do you do in this situation?

It is not uncommon for this to happen. Not every group that forms will grow into a strong reproducing group of obedient disciples. If it is a seeker group (Watson’s DBS approach) it’s normal to have a significant number of new groups dissolve. With the T4T approach, where they first commit to following Christ, it’s a bit less but still happens. Find out more about these two approaches here. read more

Continue Reading
0
Church Planting Generational growth

5 Steps for Moving from 1st Generation groups to 2nd, 3rd and Beyond

By on Tuesday, June 21, 2022
generational growth in disciple making movements

How Do You Get Generational Growth In Disciple Making Movements?

They were a faithful and passionate team of local workers. They shared the gospel often and led people to the Lord. They worked hard. They had started 10 1st generation groups of disciples. Not too bad by most peoples’ standards. Generational growth in disciple making had not yet begun though.

They were stuck at 1st generation (1G) growth. They only knew how to start groups themselves. They didn’t know how to get the believers in those groups to start new groups. Sound familiar?

Is This Your Team? Or A Team You Are Training?

As we began to work with them, things began to change. Today, they have reached 6th generation growth and the movement has grown by about 400%!

What do you do to get from seeing only 1st Generation growth in disciple-making to seeing many generations?

5 Steps To Increase DMM Generational Growth:

1. Share A Clear Vision For A Disciple Making Movement.

A Clear Vision for a DMM must be understood and owned by the existing churches and believers or you will find it difficult to see generational growth. Do all the believers understand what a Disciple Making Movement is? Do they understand why a DMM will reach more lost people than if you are just a traditional church? Have they prayed and received this as their own? Have you shared scriptures about how the gospel spread and multiplied in the book of Acts?

Regularly share the Vision for a Movement until it takes root in their hearts.

Then share the Vision over and over each time you meet.

2. Train Everyone To Share Their Testimony

Use a simple method to train everyone to share their testimony in 3-5 minutes. I like to use Ying Kai’s 3 steps from T4T.

  • Before I met Jesus-what was my life like?
  • How I met Jesus- briefly who shared with me and what they shared.
  • After I met Jesus- what changed and how was my life different?

    • read more

    Continue Reading
    1