Steve Addison (praying for you, bro) captured some of Ralph Moore‘s thots on Movements and Movement Building. I’m increasingly reminded that “transformed disciples who multiply” lay at the heart of any culture-changing movement. I’ve adapted some of Ralph’s points to “fit” our mission (building movements everywhere, so everyone knows someone who truly follows Jesus).
Don’t start with a movement, but rather start with one life at a time. A movement will come out of this.
Large movements or small movements or multiple movements? This is the wrong question. Excellence in discipleship is what matters.
When it gets so easy to reproduce that people don’t know the campus director or staff – then it’s a movement.
You have to share the message of multiplication for a long time. Never stop talking about multiplication.
When you build movements, be relentless.
We attract a crowd of students and then try to make disciples. Jesus did it the other way around.
Church must be your discipleship model and discipleship must be your church model.
When growing leaders, standards are sometimes your enemy. We can lift the bar too high for younger leaders. We take lots of small measured risks with people. We don’t take big risks.
To build movements, you need a culture of believing in mavericks and creating a relational and demanding environment in which they can grow.
The local movement should be the seminary where you develop leaders.
In building movements, you must take chances with people or you never produce great leaders.
If you try to maintain control and protect your own reputation, your ministry would certainly stay small and not lead to multiplication.
Every maturing Christian should have a few followers and a pattern for training them.
Disciplemaking is not just for recognized leaders. You must produce something with whatever God gives you. This includes your knowledge of God and your ability to minister to others.
As a maturing Christian, you are to duplicate yourself in two or three other people. God expects you to use your relationships as a format for giving away your skills and knowledge of him.
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