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Multiplying Movements through Organic Growth
…aid the good seed of the Gospel will grow for the farmer even while he is sleeping, and he knows not how (Mark 4:26-29). The farmer sows, waters and at the right time puts his sickle in for the harvest! Over the past 10 years, our teams have observed at…
What Must be Done?
…aid, “I say it respectfully, but I say it forcefully. God is not that stupid a general.” The disciples in movements are our most effective and strategic front line Gospel messengers. We need to realign our Great Commission efforts to fully support them. They are not asking or waiting for…
Disciple Making Movement Jumps to Another Continent
…aid later that Padar’s words had the weight of a bomb going off in the room. But everyone responded politely by clapping their hands for the decision Padar, his family, and his nephew’s family had made. Then Padar left the room to change out of his wet clothes. He returned…
Further Reflections
…ate about the cutting edge of the Gospel among the unreached. I wonder if you—like me— sometimes come to the Scriptures to find passages to “use” to justify our missions service and motivate others. It makes us feel better about what we are doing! But one of the biggest problems…
Mission Mobilizers— A Multifaceted Role in God’s Global Purpose
…aid groundwork so Jesus’ purpose could be accomplished.John proclaims in John 1:23, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness; make straight the way of the Lord. With simplicity, courage, and humility, John became a voice of God in his generation, preparing for Jesus’ first coming. Yet John’s…
Cloud by Day, Fire by Night
…ate the “school of life,” my Ivy League education, or even growing in mind, body, soul, and spirit at a biblically grounded university. Each of these experiences taught me to explore possibilities, to think thoroughly, and to plan carefully. My privileged American education also brought with it the implication that…
Lean into Chaos—It’s Often Where God Is Greatly at Work
…ate in India was advising all American citizens to leave the country. Threat levels were high, as the conflict between India and Pakistan escalated. In 1998, these two nations had both become nuclear powers. In 2017 and 2018, threats and border skirmishes increased between the two nations. The email came.…
DMM Jumps to Another Desert Tribe
…aid, “We discovered Jesus! We are all Christians.” The boss asked, “You are Christians?” They said, “Yes.” He responded: “You are all fired. We don’t want you working here. We can’t continue to work with somebody who is a Christian.” T hey said, “Okay,” and went back…
How Long to Reach the Goal?
…aid, I do not believe we will see teams in every language and place by 2025, I do believe that goal will be reached shortly thereafter. I believe this because we can see the fruit of this multiplication already. We have collected data on the total growth of individual…
Cascading Gospel: Movements Starting Movements
…adding three more descriptive terms: tribes, peoples, and languages—various groups with common identities. In our urgency to simplify the task, for mobilization and strategy, we have lost some wisdom from the early pioneers of the unreached concept. The Lausanne 1982 people group taskforce stated: for evangelistic purposes it is “the…
Three Movement articles reprinted from MF Jan Feb 2018
…aid, “Don’t go anywhere. Coach churches. Train the 100 churches to plant three more churches each.” As I trained my local church leaders, they trained their people. Some churches planted five new churches. Others planted none. By the next year the network of 100 churches had grown to 422. We…
Rediscovering the Hidden Peoples
…aid. This latest issue of MF presents an updated understanding of FPGs (p. 14), the growing variety of new resources— websites, videos, podcasts, prayer guides, etc.— focused on FPGs (p. 33) and the variety of part and full-time roles in which believers can collaborate to multiply God’s blessing through Jesus…
Developing Mission Mobilization Movements in Local Ministries
…ategy with “saturation church-planting,”2 is there a corresponding concept of “saturation mission mobilization?” I have come to believe there is. I am convinced part of the answer is working toward the multiplication of Mission Mobilization Movements (MMMs) across every level of the body of Christ in every nation. This…
Movement Servants
…aid, “Westerners we talk to do not really want to do what we need. For instance, we would ask them not to go live in Afghanistan, but seek to reach Afghans in Europe and partner to raise prayer and funds and key outside connections for Afghan believers in Afghanistan. That…
The NEW Thirty-One Prayer Guide
…ate of the world and of global Christianity, just as Elijah lost heart and cried out to the Lord: The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to…
Startling Church Trends and What We Need To Do About Them
…aid something that startled me straight out of relax mode. Carey asked him what the recent major trends in the church were. He mentioned the top three. All were quite interesting. The one that riveted my attention, however, was the decline of evangelism. If you are concerned about lostness, hearing…
Toward the Edges
…addressing barriers that are “upstream” from the barriers we see—the barriers that might cause the barriers." For this, our approach to innovation is shaped by prayer and listening, including listening to more people, people who are closer to where the barriers are being discovered. Missiology FV has always been a…
Great Progress toward blessing all Unreached People Groups (UPGs)
…address the influences destroying their families and communities. SHARED HUMANITY We seek to lead people of all faiths to follow Jesus in light of our shared humanity—our common challenges and desires—knowing that God is still seeking all who will worship Him in Spirit and Truth (John 4). Pray for…
Seeing the World Through People Group Eyes
…ate her and her people from the Gospel. The Dhobi wash and press clothes all over India and throughout South Asia. Every day they serve almost every caste in South Asia. Every Christian worker in South Asia interacts with a Dohobi in the local trade language. The Dhobi are…