A Disciple Making Movement (DMM) is a missional movement of ordinary disciples making disciples and starting new community of disciples (simple churches) with the power of the Holy Spirit. This is the way how Jesus intends the church to be.
From Church to MovementThe modern day church has become something very different than what Jesus started. Jesus did not build any church facility. Nor did he start a religious institution with highly educated clergies, performance-oriented meetings, or a million-dollar budget.
Jesus started a dynamic movement of disciple making and multiplication that has now transformed billions of lives all over the world. |
From Attracting to SendingFrom both the Gospels and the book of Acts, the people God uses are normal people like fishermen, tax collectors, prostitutes, business owners, workers, house wives, soldiers, beggars, etc. They went out from place to place and house to house sharing the gospel, healing the sick, and casting out demons.
Multiplication movements seldom happen if the church relies on the "professionals" to do gospel events. The exponential power of the gospel is in the hands and mouth of every disciple who is willing to go to his/her friends and neighbors to share the gospel with the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit. |
From Institution to CommunityIn the beginning, Jesus started a movement of disciple making with his own chosen community of disciples. Even though numerically speaking the movement was totally insignificant with just twelve disciples, it became the most powerful religious movement in the greatest empire of the time within merely three hundred years with millions of followers.
A disciple making movement (DMM) seeks to restore the explosive and transforming power of the community of disciples by training and releasing every disciple to make disciples and start simple and reproducible churches by the power of the Holy Spirit. |
DMM brings the church back to its organic and missional identity and purpose. It embodies the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. It takes Jesus' words on their merits that "when two or three gather in my name, I'm in their midst" (Matt. 18:20). It follows Jesus' instruction to his disciples to "go and make disciples" (Matt. 28:19) instead of asking people to "come and visit our church," which is nowhere found in the Scripture. It stays true to the New Testament's teaching that the Temple of God is now the community of disciples instead of a physical building (1 Cor. 3:16-17).
DMM provides not only a new evangelism program for the institutional church, it is essentially a whole new way of defining and operating the church. It has a completely different, but biblically more accurate, vision of expanding the kingdom and making disciples.
DMM provides not only a new evangelism program for the institutional church, it is essentially a whole new way of defining and operating the church. It has a completely different, but biblically more accurate, vision of expanding the kingdom and making disciples.