Previously:

• 366-Multiplying Disciples and Churches in a War
• The 5 Levels of Leadership

Get your copy: https://amzn.to/4gAwXRN

Thanks to the Church Planter Podcast for making the recording available: churchplanterpodcast.com

Get your copy of Everywhere on Amazon: https://amzn.to/40Hmv1w

Links

• Fidelis Project: fidelisproject.com
• Joshua Project: joshuaproject.net
• Hill 111: hill111.com

Explore the resources mentioned in the interview: southasiansands.wixsite.com/ekrasta

Previous interview: 180-Houston to the Horn.

Thanks to GACX for getting me to the US. Thanks to e3Partners for getting me to ten cities. Thanks to SEBTS for making this recording available.

Chris tells the story in his new book, Superplan: A Journey into God's Story.

For online training he recommends: e3partners.

Sign up here for the 40-Day Challenge: movements.net/40days

Find out more: UPGNorthAmerica.com

We talk about the spiritual battle and how the church in Jerusalem became a multiplying movement of disciples and churches.

Find out more at: movements.net/acts

Buy @ Koorong Australia: koorong.com

Buy on Amazon: amzn.to/3MVjvbK

More on the work in the red-light district: hilltopofhope.com

More on Reach the Rest: reachtherest.org

Want to know more?

• 154-NoPlaceLeft in the Latino World

• #noplaceleft resources in Spanish

Buy on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4rBnTxz

Links:

• simplechurch.global
• chasm.solutions

More on Oggie’s work with Latinos.

Visit movements.net to download the Measure What Matters manual: https://www.movements.net/blog/blog/2021/7/13/255-measure-what-matters

Apologies for the audio quality.

Visit noplaceleftarmy.net to learn more.

Find out more: goodnewsgordys.com

Link: multiplyinghope.org

Session 2: Matthew 28 sets a high bar. We are to teach our disciples to “obey all that Christ has commanded.” Amidst the breadth of the NT where might we begin? Today we celebrate the example of Acts 2:42 where new disciples “devoted themselves to the apostles teaching.” Have you considered the personal disciplines initiated in the first churches of Jerusalem? These personal disciples observed in the obedience of the 3000 baptized in Jerusalem were organized in what we call the first church following Pentecost. How might you commit, introduce, and expect such mobilization of disciples and disciple-making in your ministry setting?

Session 3: There is no tool for disciple making like the Word of God. Today’s study challenges each of us to reconsider how we might campaign, commit to, and benefit from regular planning and accountability to scripture intake. As you gather your disciples, what commitments have you made? How might the descriptions of the Word of God you read together prompt you to commit again to sit under its authority?

Watch the series on Youtube: youtube.com/@DiscoveringtheMissionaryTask

Find out more: movimientotrestercios.es

Connect with Bruce on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/housechurchdad

Links

• Training options: americanchurchplanting.com
• Great Commission Christian questionnaire: movements.net/s/GCC-interview-qs.pdf

Connect with Nick and Sarah: theway.co.nz

Part 1: 334-The First Five Years: movements.net/blog/344-the-first-five-years

In an earlier podcast, Cassie and Matt Foshee talk about NoPlaceLeft in the Mormon heartland of Utah: https://www.movements.net/blog/blog/2021/7/13/254-noplaceleft-utah

In the next episode, we'll hear how the work unfolded.

youtu.be/UEym347gOxU

Find out more: noplaceleftarmy.net

George trains movement pioneers at SEBTS.

Related: How one Seminary is Adapting to Train Movement Pioneers.

Explore zume.training

You can connect with Chris and access his training and resources at experiencelifenow.com.

To find out more about 2414 visit 2414now.net.

Troy Cooper mentions the Acts 2 Church Circle tool.

For US based training visit NoPlaceLeft.

Thanks to Peter Lindell of the OnTheRoad podcast for partnering with me on this one.

If you’re based in the US, you can contact Ross and find out how you and your church can start on the same journey.

Visit Andrew’s facebook page to find out more.

Bob and Mary's resources in Spanish and Spanish-speaking Facebook group.

They mention Brian Hogan's book, There's a Sheep in My Bathtub.

The second of two interviews.

At a gathering of workers from across Europe, Russell shares his story.

Warrick Farah has brought together movement leaders, and scholars from around the world to talk about movements. Warrick has edited the input from both the academic and practitioner angles and the result is an excellent book.

There are lessons to be learned by anyone seeking to participate in the movement of God to disciple the nations.

Links for Warrick Farah and the MotusDei network:

• motusdei.Network
• masterclasses.ephesiology.com/courses/foundation-movement
• independent.academia.edu/WarrickFarah
• muslimministry.blogspot.com

JT refers to:

• Residencies

• Great Commission Pipeline

Visit Myles’s website for more. Thanks to our partners at Accelerate for making the interview available.

If you’re enjoying the Movements podcast, why not “like” us on the movements.net Facebook page and follow along.

Visit Russell’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/@russellgodward8500

He's the author of two books on movements and you can find him at btdnetwork.org

• Download the 2016 NoPlaceLeft Army Case Study.

• Jim mentioned the book T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution by Steve Smith and Ying Kai.

• He also mentioned 3-Thirds Discipleship.

Find out more: dmmsfrontiermissions.com

Thanks to 100M for making the interview available.

If you would like to get in touch with JT and Ben you can email them.

Articles by Jim Haney:

• Integrity and Accountability in Reporting Missions Statistics, Lausanne World Pulse (2011)
• Hitting the Mark, Mission Frontiers, (2016)

September 2019

28 Dallas

29 Houston

30 Raleigh

October 2019

1 West Point

2 New York City

3 Washington DC

5 San Francisco

8 San Diego

10 Long Beach

12 Los Angeles

movements.net/tour

1. They have a Magnificent Obsession: Movement leaders "see it before they see it."

2. They have a "My People syndrome": They adopt an unreached people group as their own people.

3. They have a WIGTake (What's It Gonna Take?) worldview rather than a "What am I good at?" way of thinking.

4. They are lateral thinkers: They learn from failures and keep seeking another way to solve problems.

5. They never take no for an answer when it comes to reaching their people for Jesus.

6. Ruthless evaluation: The strategy and tactics change as they pursue the vision. They set aside things that don't work.

7. They recognize this is God's work, not their work. They see themselves as the ant that rides the elephant across a river.

8. They know how the story ends. The promise of Revelation 5:9 is true.

9. It's not about them. It's about God's glory and seeing Christlikeness multiply among unreached people.

10. God can hit straight with a crooked stick. Movement leaders don't fall from heaven but rise up out of hell. Things can be messy. God will work in unexpected ways.

11. This is about the whole body of Christ fulfilling the great commission, not just one church or denomination. Look for super-spreaders scattered throughout the body of Christ.

12. God never places an order that he doesn't pay for. This isn't a fool’s errand. We are joining God in his work.

In today’s study, consider a survey of Old and New Testament descriptions of the targets of God’s mission. If sin causes separation, missions cross the resulting barriers to initiate God’s mission. Were there passages or promises you considered for the first time? As we examine our own targets how do they compare with the consistent message and targets of scripture?

In the second look at the empty field, we consider God’s investment ahead of our missions efforts. How might we join him as we cross barriers and mobilize our disciples to follow his lead and fish for men? Consider with us passages across the Gospels demonstrating Jesus’ sending of his own disciples amidst towns and villages “he himself was about to go.” What principles or patterns might we discern, how do these examples compare with the tools and ideas we employ for engaging new fields?

Watch the series on Youtube: youtube.com/@DiscoveringtheMissionaryTask

Second session: As we seek to share a biblical Gospel, we ought also to allow the New Testament to instruct us regarding the right response. In today’s study we survey a variety of passages to consider the call to respond. Have you considered the variety of terms used in the NT? How might the variety of terms used relate or support each other? As you go about Gospel ministry, which of these passages inform or provide questions worthy of attention in your seed sowing?

Third session: As we go about seed sowing we are fully dependent on God to give life. Today we have gathered various verses describing the power of the Gospel to accomplish what we cannot. Have you ever considered the Gospel a “powerful, personal force?” The use of active verbs across the NT led Robert Plummer to suggest the Gospel is active, on the march and taking the enemy's ground wherever it is faithfully sown. Have you considered the stewardship you carry as you share? Have you considered the privilege to carry the very “power of God unto salvation” in your hand?

Fourth session: Have you considered the consistent pattern of Gospel advance in the first century? The Bible is the inspired account of Gospel advance from early examples of addition in and around Jerusalem to various examples of multiplication. As we shall see, the NT details entire provinces saturated with the ‘Word of the Lord.’ How might NT precedent inform our expectations for Gospel advance? Have we seen the Gospel ring out among new believers? How might we pray and posture for such multiplication?

Watch the series on Youtube: youtube.com/@DiscoveringtheMissionaryTask

Articles

• Paradoxes of Pluralism, Privilege

• Proof That Political Privilege Is Harmful for Christianity

The Rise and Fall of Movements: A Roadmap for Leaders is due for release in May 2019.

Their training is available online: Bit.ly/SealeTeamTraining

Download the accompanying notes:

https://movements.squarespace.com/s/Acts-and-the-Movement-of-God-audiobook-notes.pdf

Links

• multipliersmindset.com
• Mindset questionnaire
• Dare to multiply podcast

We discuss how Luke wrote to help us bridge the gap between our experience and the movement of God in Acts. We talk about how Jesus launched a missionary movement that was under the authority of God’s Word, dependent on the Holy Spirit, and on the way from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth with the gospel. Finally we ask, What can Acts teach us about the people God uses to fulfill his mission?

Download the Acts Discovery Worksheet: bit.ly/4-FieldsDiscoveryActs

Get your copy of Acts and the Movement of God: https://amzn.to/3nOYEgr

Find out more: 2414now.net

Kurt is the author of Cuba’s Great Awakening: A Church Planting Movement.

Search James and Hope for previous interviews and posts.

https://www.movements.net/search?q=James%20and%20Hope

Ryan's blog: ryanjhale.com

Let me know what you think.

Acts and the Movement of God is now available as an audiobook on Audible, Apple and Spotify.

I wrote this reflection just after the interview: movements.net/blog/the-difference

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The first interview: movements.net/blog/blog/2024/1/29/320-james-and-hope-the-call

Connect with JT: neighborsandnations.org

Explore the resources mentioned in the interview: southasiansands.wixsite.com/ekrasta

Download Discover Key Mindset Shifts

Links

• Resources on Relational Oneness: beggarsgate.com/marriage-ministry
• Il l'a dit website (French): illadit.fr

Find out more on the work in Greece among refugees.

Find out more at newgenerations.org.

Connect with Peyton at ministryninja.com

Dave is lead pastor of Community Christian Church in Chicago. He also provides visionary leadership for the international church-planting movement NewThing and is the president of the Exponential Conference.

Find out more: togethernetwork.com.au

Links:

• 3-Thirds Discipleship

• The Commands of Christ

• Following and Fishing notes

Dan Hitzhusen tells the story of what happened next. It’s the story of a mission agency reinventing itself around fulfilling the Great Commission.

Thanks to our friends at GACX for making the interview available.

For security reasons, there’s no video of this interview. Hope insists it’s not because James isn’t good looking.

Previous interviews:

• 320-James and Hope: The Call https://www.movements.net/blog/blog/2024/1/29/320-james-and-hope-the-call-mjbzb
• 321-James and Hope: The Work https://www.movements.net/blog/blog/2024/1/29/321-james-and-hope-the-work-9n2st

Find out more: ActsNowGlobal.com

Amazon link: https://amzn.to/4iI8KYI

This book lays the Biblical foundations for multiplying movements of disciples and churches. Everywhere.

• Available on Audible-Amazon: https://amzn.to/4hKBrnf
• Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/04eFQgGBSjM58lUfBMpCYU?si=e3ceaa9debe34308
• Download the accompanying notes: https://www.movements.net/s/Your-Part-in-Gods-Story-Audiobook-notes.pdf

Previously with Joe. . .

• 345-Coaching from the Sidelines
• 355-Joe’s Story (1)
• 356-Joe’s Story (2)

For more: hilltopofhope.com

Buy your copy on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3R9dbwk

Listen to an interview with Emanuel Prinz about his work in Sudan: https://www.movements.net/blog/blog/2022/4/13/273-movements-in-sudan

Visit the Movement Catalyst blog: https://www.catalyticleadership.info

Related: 254-NoPlaceLeft Utah

He shares what he is learning.

Justin serves with Beyond researching movements and recruiting movement pioneers.

Terry's ministry: texasprisonoutreach.org

From the first church(es) in Jerusalem and consistently emerging from each subsequent harvest field, recognizing elder/overseers in each field is a part of the work of mission (Titus 1:5-6). Paul carried greatly for this task. Paul often returned the venue of persecution to see that elders were appointed (Acts 14:23). What plans and patterns have you and your disciples made for leadership recognition in the midst of your church planting? How do your plans fit with the biblical example and/or expectation? Are we satisfied with the qualifications detailed in scripture? Are these qualifications sufficient? Why or why not?

Session 2: Sent Ones Who Join the Task

The task of mission is multiplied as “sent ones” take up the task of repeating the process of church planting. Developing and releasing such laborers does indeed find precedent in the pages of the NT. In today’s study we consider the use of the word ‘apostle’ beyond the 12 apostles qualified in Acts 1. As we acknowledge both the closed group of eye-witnesses to Christ’s ministry and resurrection and the seemingly ongoing role of “sent-ones” across the Mediterranean world, how might the use of these terms challenge our thinking regarding leadership roles in the NT? Do you and your ministry anticipate and make provision for those called to “go”? How might the ongoing role and expectation for such calling inform our reading or re-reading of the NT?

Watch the series on Youtube: youtube.com/@DiscoveringtheMissionaryTask

We discuss the church in Jerusalem as the role model for every church. We learn that discipleship and church formation are two sides of the same reality. We identify the pattern of engagement in Acts between the movement of God and a lost world. We see how the movement advances through both miracles and martyrdom, signs and suffering. We hear how the movement of God is advancing today in the redlight district of Mumbai and an Islamist-controlled neighborhood in the Middle East.

Find out more: movements.net/acts

Buy your copy on Amazon: https://amzn.to/42IWrCr

Find out more: europemultiplyteam.com

The resources they mentioned are available at movements.net

• Discovery Bible Study and 3-Thirds Discipleship
• The 411 and the 3-Circles

Connect with Johnny at Mekong Kingdom Movement.

One of the most overlooked aspects of church planting is the introduction and local ownership of church identity. Beginning in Acts 2, today’s study considers the matter of local commitment to “the number.” The New Testament utilizes numerous word pictures to catalyze church identity. Today’s study considers these metaphors for church identity and challenges listeners to consider how such passages might be leveraged to call for church identity. To be sure, beyond doing or not doing, being church is a clear expectation across the NT.

Session 2: Discerning NT Venues for Church

There is no example of churches in the NT lacking a venue to gather. In today’s study we consider the simple, practical question: where did NT churches meet? Though many options exist for venue in the 21st century, how might the NT (universal) precedent offer insight into the efficiency and advance of NT church planting? Surely, amidst multiple options available today, beginning new churches in the homes of new believers remains a viable option for church planting in our fields.

Session 3: Decision Making and Church Discipline

Across the NT record, decisions are presented as catalyst to local responsibility for various congregations. In today’s study we consider a variety of such decision. Examples of choosing leaders, designating offering, the confrontation of false teaching and finally, and finally the stand of the local church for holiness each call for congregational responsibility. Where we consider such decisions, how might we employ the NT precedent of local responsibility? Have you considered such responsibility as a catalyst for maturity? Are your default responses to such needs or decisions consistent with this NT precedent?

Session 4: The Value of the Lord’s Supper

The NT ordinances are Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Each of these introduce and demand identification with the Lord’s sacrifice. Just as Christ died and rose again baptism pictures for us a chance to associate with Christ as we to have died to our old way of life and live in the power of his resurrection (Rom. 6). Similarly, the Lord’s Supper serves as a reminder of the Lord’s death, but also platforms self-examination, confession, unity and worship. How have your disciples and church planting efforts benefited from the Lord’s Supper? How might you leverage its many lessons as a reminder of the Lord’s expectation for his bride?

Watch the series on Youtube: youtube.com/@DiscoveringtheMissionaryTask

This first video sets the stage for the series. Objectives are clearly detailed along with suggestions for format as you gather your disciples to study God’s word. As detailed in this video the series is intended to assist you as you: define core convictions in missionary practice, focus on Biblical priorities for mission, examine assumptions and traditions, and equip your disciples wherever you engage mission.

Watch the series on Youtube: youtube.com/@DiscoveringtheMissionaryTask

Berk's website: https://www.raleighgrace.org/

Previous interview: https://www.movements.net/blog/2015/01/07/movements-among-students-berk-wilson-podcast.html-w7da3

Thanks to GACX for getting me to the US. Thanks to e3Partners for getting me to ten cities. Thanks to SEBTS for making this recording available.

The Behrans serve with praxeis.org

Unleash the Priest Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unleash-the-priest/id1758017890

151-A Local Church Takes on the Great Commission: https://www.movements.net/blog/blog/2017/12/5/151-a-local-church-takes-on-the-great-commission-bryan-king-6dymh

Jeff is the lead pastor of Bridges Church in Long Beach, California.

• Previous interview: 205-One Pastor is Bringing Movements Home

• 3Thirds Discipleship and the Commands of Christ

• Forming healthy churches

They track the rise of multiplying movements of disciples and churches around the world and identify their characteristics.

Some encouraging news:

Recent research covering 1995 to the present has made a staggering discovery. Many movements fade away before reaching multiple generations, but those that do reach multiple generations become a powerful, nearly unstoppable force. An astonishing 99% of movements that have reached multiple branches of four or more generations of churches have thrived since their inception. The disciples and churches in these movements have grown exponentially at an astounding average rate of 23% yearly—much faster than the global population. The total number of disciples in these movements has doubled every 3.5 years—a testament to the potency of divine multiplication.

This global growth has occurred over four distinct stages:

• From 1995 to 2000, from 10,000 to over 100,000 disciples
• From 2000 to 2005, from 100,000 to over 1 million disciples
• From 2005 to 2015, from 1 million to over 10 million
• From 2015 to 2024, the number surpassed 100 million.

Connect with Troy at: coopersonamission.com