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Hello, I'm Timothy Moore. This is the course introduction to missions, and we're going to talk about the practical application of uh, what we've been looking at in the previous two units: in uh, disciple-making movements (DMM) and church planting movements (CPMs), and then also uh, collaborative missions—the alliances, the global alliances that are causing churches to reproduce in exponential ways.
Uh, but how do we take those principles that we've learned and apply them in our in our churches—in the local church where you serve? Um, and so in just a moment we're we're going to do that. We're going to start off with the first essential element of a DMM and how you apply it right where you live, in the church where you serve.
Let's pray together. Father God, thank you for our time together. Thank you for the the incredible research that's been done in terms of uh, multiplying mission movements and alliances around the world. And I pray that you would give us wisdom to take uh, all of that wonderful research and knowledge and apply it in a way in our local setting, so that we see people come to faith in Christ, become disciple-makers, and the the church be strengthened uh, through these students that have learned these principles. Lord, bless our time. Give us your wisdom, in Jesus' good name. Amen. Amen.
And so uh, when you think back on the elements and the qualities and the killers of disciple-making movements, it all starts with the first element: extraordinary prayer. Extraordinary prayer. And so um, a little bit about um, about our history. My wife Melissa and I uh, have been involved in multiple church revitalizations where churches are not expected to to survive, uh, that they're really struggling. And then um, and we've been able to go on the field for a year to a year and a half at a time and and apply these principles and allow those churches to become strong again and not just be not just grow but actually multiply. And we've done that several times.
Uh, we've also had the opportunity to start new churches uh, from scratch uh, in in missions we call it parachute uh, parachute drop church planting, where uh, in a as a metaphor we're flown in, dropped in, we land—there's no church there—we're there for a period of time and then new churches exist. And by God's grace we've been able to do that type of mission where we show up and as a result of being there for a year or two, there are new churches. And so what a what an adventure the Lord's had us on uh, in in terms of church planting and church multiplication.
In addition to that, we've been able to go to developing countries and train indigenous uh, pastors and planters and see movements of of multiplication happen in different countries around the world. And now we have the privilege of going and visiting those and and supporting them and encouraging them and and celebrating with them in the just the the the beautiful uh, expansion of God's kingdom through their faithful ministry of the gospel of Jesus uh, and making faith visible and valuable through the things that they do. And so it's just been uh, a wonderful adventure. And so I I have 34 years of experience doing that um, applying these principles that that we're talking about. And so I want us to get to the place uh, where this becomes uh, anecdotal. Uh, an anecdote is a a true story that illustrates a principle. And so over 34 years of doing this, I've got lots of anecdotes. And so we're just going to lean into the elements Dr. David Garrison's identified elements of the disciple-making movement, which begins with extraordinary prayer.
The current church revitalization that Melissa and I have been a part of is uh, Christ the King Church, and it's in Burlington, Washington. Christ the King Church was a part of a of a network uh, the Christ the King uh, network that experienced difficulties uh, after its founder uh, passed away suddenly of a brain tumor. Um, within uh, maybe a year's time, the network collapsed, and so there's no more uh, Christ the King network, but there are individual churches. And the flagship church of that network was the church that I was asked to come and help with revitalization because uh, it was struggling. And it even got to the place where um, I recommended a team—a wise council team—of some of the top revitalization strategists in the world um, to to gather together and help this church um, survive. And there was one point at which that wise council group said, if the church exists in a year—and 12 months from today—um, it will be a miracle of God. I remember being in that in that meeting. Well, we're 3 and 1/2 years into the strengthening of of this church, and what has happened is uh, over 350 people have been baptized. Uh, new discipling groups have formed. We call them impact groups. They continue to form. And it started—it really did like at the at the very beginning—instead of strategizing anything else, I thought about what makes a disciple-making movement happen, what makes a church planting movement happen—the same thing—strengthened and revitalize a church. And so it all begins with intentional prayer—extraordinary prayer.
And so we're going to use the church, which is now called CTK hope—Christ the King Hope Church—and it's website or its app. You can go on the website or app because we have intentionally applied the elements of disciple-making movements in that church, and we have seen a tremendous revitalization. The church is thriving, and the church is multiplying, and there is intention of uh, of starting many forms of church, and we'll talk about those forms because church can take many forms uh, with the same core beliefs, but the these intentional multiplication strategies are now being implemented through Christ the King Hope Church, and it's an amazing and beautiful thing to see.
So number one: extraordinary prayer. If you go on to the ctkhop.net website, uh, you can go under discipleship and you can go down to prayer stations. You can also just put in ctkhop.net prayer-stations. And and when you do that, you're going to see eight specific sta—actually 10 stations. And and when you think about these stations, just think about each station being um, a space. It could be a physical space that you're in for 3 to 5 minutes, or it can be just a mental space that you're in for 3 to 5 minutes. But for our purposes, I want you to envision a round table. I want you to envision a rolling chair, and the station is an 8 and 1/2 uh, 8 and 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper—standard sheet of paper—it is uh, laminated and on the table, and you spend three to five minutes at that sheet of paper and then you move to the next one. And so if you spent three minutes there and there are 10 stations, that would be 30 minutes in prayer. And what this is designed to do is if someone has never prayed before, they've they've never been involved with intercessory prayer before, they can walk to that table, they can sit down at station number one, and they can start this process and do it effectively. And that's actually exactly what we saw happen in the first week. So we did this in multiple ways. We had it on the app; we had it on the website. So people people could do it at home uh, sitting in a chair in the morning with a cup of coffee, or they could come into the church facility and they could go to an area that we designated uh, for prayer and they could sit down at a table and and take that rolling chair around the table and and that's what happened. And there was an extraordinary emphasis on prayer to begin the revitalization of the church. Whether it's revitalization or church planting, church multiplication, it does not matter. We need God. We need the power of God, because this is not um, a corporate business strategy. This is a kingdom strategy. And Jesus said, "My Father's house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations." And so unleashing the power of God through prayer has to be where revitalization and church planting and different forms of missions starts.
So in the first week that we set up the the table that people could sit at—the physical table—I had a young lady come who who did it. And she said, "I've got to tell you, I wasn't raised in in um, an evangelical church." She said, "I was actually raised in a Catholic church, and and I never I never got taught how to intercede and pray for other people." And so this intrigued me that there was a place to come and sit and learn how to do this. And she said, "Um, I've done it twice." And she said, "I I just got to let you know that that I'm doing it every day now." So she went and sat physically at the table, went through the stations, and she said, "After two times doing that, I'm comfortable praying, and I'm seeing God answer prayers."
So station one: imagine yourself sitting at the table. Station one is the word, and the focus is our hearts. Psalm uh, 145:8 says, "The Lord is close to those who call upon him." Yes, to all who call upon him in truth. And Jesus, in John 17:17, said, "Father, sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth." And so in that first station, we have people listen to some scripture; uh, we use YouVersion, and you can click on an audio Bible and they can listen to the Bible there, or we can put—you could put out a piece—another piece of paper with a prayer emphasis for the month, let's say, but the people read the scripture and then they say a prayer—um, "Lord, as I go through this chapter of your word, open my eyes to see the truth that sets me free and guides—and guide my prayers with your truth." And then once they do that—around three minutes—they roll to the second station, which is worship. And Colossians 3:16 says, "Let the message about Christ and all of its richness fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom that he gives, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts." And so the scripture tells us to sing three different types of songs to the Lord—Uh, psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. And uh, I want to start preaching a sermon about the different types of worship songs we sing, but I got to keep moving. Okay. Uh, Psalm 22:3 says—when we quiet—it teaches that when we quiet our hearts before God in worship, the Holy Spirit does his work in in us, and God then inhabits our praises. And so God, when when we lift our hearts to the Lord through song, whether we're singing it or listening to it, the Bible gives a beautiful promise that God comes in a special way. And it's—he calls it inhabiting our praises—God's there with us when we're worshiping and praising him with with music. And so in that second stage—station—they listen to a worship song that glorifies God. And we use a tool that's available through things like YouTube. It's called Music Meets Heaven. There's a Music Meets Heaven YouTube um, account. And so uh, you can go there and just listen to worship songs. And so a worship song is about three minutes. And so they listen to that worship song and they let their heart connect with the truth in the worship song, and then they move to the next station. So three or four minutes in each each station.
The third station is is the work of the Holy Spirit, which is adjustment, and then the fourth station is assignment. The work of the Holy Spirit is always adjustment and assignment for one reason, and that is to uh, to cause Christ to be seen through our lives. He glorifies Christ, and if we yield to his adjustments and his assignments, other people are going to see Christ through our lives. And so uh, that third prayer station is there—you can read through it—and and you are you're reading scripture related to the adjustments of the Holy Spirit. You're asking the Holy Spirit, in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, to reveal anything in your life that needs to be adjusted—thought patterns, behaviors, things that you need to confess or repent of. And then you yield to what the Holy Spirit wants to do in your life. That's what Galatians 5:16 says to do: Yield yourself to the Holy Spirit. Station four is the assignment of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said in John 10:27, "My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them away from me." And so assignments from the Lord usually have names. It's usually people. God cares about people. And so you ask the Lord to reveal any assignments he has for you and to make you aware when that assignment is happening. Sometimes when you yield to an assignment that the Lord may have for you, he lets you know immediately what you need to do to show his love to someone else. But sometimes he just makes you more attuned so that when it happens you know this is an assignment from the Lord. And so the prayer would be, "Lord Jesus, open my eyes to the assignments you have for me. Show me people that you would have me demonstrate your love to. Give me wisdom to make you known to them." And then next station—the next station—is lifting up leadership. The scripture says in Hebrews 13 to remember leaders who teach you the word of God. Why should we remember leaders who are teaching us the word of God? Well, because the tallest tree in the forest gets hit most by the lightning. And what I know is 1 Peter chapter 5, which is written to elders of the church—the leaders of the church—He said, "Your adversary the devil roams around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith. Resist him, and he will flee from you." And so we pray for the leaders of the church, especially. We pray for ourselves and for our families, but do not forget to pray for the leaders of the church because the enemy targets those who teach the word of God. And so we need a station that emphasizes praying for leadership—lift up the leaders of your church.
And then station number six is spiritual warfare. Ephesians 6:12 says, "We don't fight against flesh and blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities in the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world—evil spirits in the heavenly places." It says, "We fight against them." I know this seems more like a sermon than a seminary class. Uh, however, I'm passionate about this because I've been on the front lines for 34 years. I've been bloodied in battle with the enemy. And I know that spiritual warfare is necessary. This is not business; it's kingdom. And there are two kingdoms: the kingdom of God and the domain of darkness. And the Bible says we fight a good fight. It doesn't say we dance a good dance. And it says in Ephesians 6:12, "We fight evil rulers and authorities in the unseen world." And it's important for you to know that you are deputized with the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ. If you've given your life to Christ, if you have yielded to his call on your life to ministry, you have deputized kingdom authority that Jesus spoke about in Luke 10:19. Jesus said, "Behold, I have given you authority over all the power of the enemy, and you can walk among snakes and scorpions and crush them, and nothing will injure you. But don't rejoice because evil spirits obey you. Rejoice that your names are registered in heaven." Spiritual warfare is important in prayer life. And if we don't do it, we will not see the powerful work of God unleashed for mission movements that advance the kingdom on planet earth. It's important to understand there are spiritual forces at work around us. And we have an incredible promise from Jesus, deputizing us with his very authority over evil and harmful spirits in the world. And so here's a prayer in that station: I pray now, and I'm praying it as I say it right now. I pray now in the name and the authority of Jesus Christ alone against any foul or unclean spirit that attempts to come against us. I pray against any work of the enemy or ungodly schemes of people that they would be repelled by the power of the Lord Jesus Christ and bound away from us in his good name. And in Jesus' holy name, I summon holy angel warriors to camp around us, defend us from every attack, and completely destroy the works of the enemy towards us. I pray for angelic protection over our families, over our household, over the participants and partners of our church, and I'm praying it specifically over those who hear this message right now. Lord, your protection, your authority to repel the intentions of the enemy, in your good name. And I thank you for this authority that you have deputized us with and declared in your word in Luke 10:19. Amen.
The seventh station is the lost. If the church is going to advance in mission and missions are going to happen, we have to pray specifically and intentionally for people who do not know Jesus. In scripture, they referred to as those who are lost. In Acts 26:18, Paul talks about praying for the lost. And he said, "Pray that their eyes may be open that they may turn from darkness to to light, from the power of Satan to God, that they would be willing to receive forgiveness of their sins and be given a place among God's people who are set apart by faith in Christ." What a great prayer to pray. Make Acts chap 26:18 your prayer for lost friends and relatives and associates and neighbors. The next station is specific prayer requests. So for a church—for an individual church—people, you there should be a way that people can turn in prayer requests. Uh, they can turn in prayer requests through our app. They can turn prayer—prayer requests in through the website. They can turn prayer requests in through a card that they get on the way into or out of a church gathering. And we receive those requests and we pray over those every week. And so the prayer station for specific requests. And then number nine is churches and mission organizations—these alliances that we have to uh, to have multiplying missions that create disciple-making movements. And so we pray over those alliances, and we have several of them listed there that you can see if you go to our website or our app. And then the the prayer station number 10 is a time of celebration and answered prayer. Psalm 66:19 says, "Truly God has listened. He has attended to the voice of my prayer." That's something to celebrate. So just take time thanking God and have an—and and then there's a place for people to write down or to give praise reports, and on the website or the app you can click there and give a praise report.
And so in this extraordinary prayer where everything starts, it doesn't just happen. It never just happens. There has to be a tool. There has to be a catalyst. There has to be someone—you can almost always in every movement—you can point to a single person or a couple that started energizing and catalyzing and developing a tool for prayer—extraordinary prayer to happen. It didn't just happen. Someone intentionally focused on it and gave people a tool to do it. And the tool we used in this current ministry assignment that we have is prayer stations.
So going back, it all began with extraordinary prayer, and then it goes to abundant gospel sowing. If if the gospel is not shared—healing, growth, salvation, multiplication—it cannot happen. Nothing in missions can happen—kingdom missions—without abundant gospel sowing. Again, it's not going to happen without a tool. You have to give people something that is transferable, something that they can they can understand and something that they can do. And so if you look on our website under discipleship, the first heading is three circles. You click on three circles, and there's a video that teaches you the the key elements of what the Bible calls the gospel—the good news of Jesus—And and it is shared in 1 minute and 30 seconds. It teaches you how to draw it, how to share it, and and there is a conversation guide that you can download. Um, this three circles method of sharing the gospel we've used all over the world. I've I've used it recently um, to to reach into several African countries, partnered with a radio station, went there and basically just shared this every day that we were there. And it went into Uganda. It went into the Congo. Uh, it went into uh, several—about four or five—it was broadcast to about four or five African countries every day for two weeks. And it was very interesting. We while we were there, we were staying in a in a hotel, and um, and I walked into the hotel and the manager of the hotel uh, asked me to to come into her office. She she waved at me and she said—she said, "Motion for me to come." So I walked in there, and she said, "Um, as I was driving home last night, I heard you on the radio, and you were talking about these three circles and what Jesus did for for everyone." And she said, "I believe that. Now what?" And so I was able to talk to the manager of the of the hotel and and teach her what it looked like to become a disciple of Jesus—the three essentials of discipleship, which is another transferable tool that we develop—how to get truth and promises from God's word, how to yield to the adjustments and assignments of the Holy Spirit, and how to show support and encouragement to other people in a group of spiritual friends. That's the importance of the church and how to function that way as a disciple within the church. And our church—our headquarters church for our—me—for the ministry is uh, a half mile from that hotel, and she was able to connect with that church. So these aren't just principles, you know, that I'm talking about. This is what we live out, and we see beautiful results. And so uh, abundant gospel sowing has to happen. You have to have a tool. I've never found a better tool than the three circles life conversation guide. And so learn it, watch the video, read the book. It is available in many many many languages. And so Google it, find it in your language, and and get—get copies—download at least get the PDF file. There are actually booklets that you could uh, give to a friend, and there's an app that you can use and share with people from your phone. That is the three circles life conversation guide. So great tool.
Um, small reproducible groups. There's no such thing as a disciple-making movement without small reproducible groups. The groups that that we start and multiply are—we call impact groups. The groups that are multiplying most rapidly globally that are associated with the min—with the mission agency that I I am the executive director of um, are groups that do what's called Discovery Bible Study. And Discovery Bible Study has no teacher. It just has someone that facilitates three questions after the group—group reads a chapter of the Bible. And so as the group reads a chapter of the Bible, three questions are asked: Number one: What is this saying? What is it saying to you personally? And what are you going to do about what it is saying—what—what's going to happen in your life? What action are you going to take? What's it saying? What's it saying to you personally? And what action are you you going to take as a result of that? That's the first thing that happens. The second thing that happens is people get prayed for. And so the the question is is asked, "How can I pray for you?" And someone returns, "How can I pray for you?" So you give an opportunity for people to share prayer requests, and then everyone gets prayed for in the group. The third thing that happens is the group always looks for opportunities to do something together to show the love of God in some tangible way—meeting a need, healing a hurt, um, going out and showing the light and the love of Jesus Christ, making faith and love visible to others so that others will ask about the hope that is that is in you. 1 Peter 3:15 says, "People will ask, and we are to be ready to give an answer for the hope that's in us." That readiness is the three circles. It's the gospel using a tool like the three circles. We're ready. That's called being gospel ready. And so these groups doing those three things—discovery, prayer, and serving together—reproducing are are generating church planting movements, disciple-making movements um, to an extent that has never been seen in the history of the world—in the history of Christianity—uh, the global alliances that we've talked about—that we talked about in the last unit—the the GACX alliance—
Global Alliance of Church Multiplication and the World Evangelical Alliance—we, a World Evangelical Alliance—these two incredible alliances are also now aligned together. And they're a global alliance. And a few years ago, they set a goal of 4.5 million new churches on planet Earth. They did the math and they realized that if we have 4.5 million new churches, that would be a faith community for every 1,000 people on planet Earth. And this year they just crossed the 3 million threshold. So in 10 years, a little over 3 million new churches have been planted globally, and that's never happened. So this is an incredible church multiplication movement.
It is not happening yet to the same degree in North and South America. It's happening in Africa and Asia primarily, but we want it to happen everywhere. Amen. And so we're going to be praying that we can take these principles and we can apply them in North America and South America so that we see the same type of results and exponential movement of discipleship and church planting.
And it's going to happen not through focusing on buying large buildings, starting churches with hundreds of people. It's going to start with small, reproducible groups. I had a church planter that contacted me recently in another state, and he was very frustrated because he had been given a church building and they had been trying for a year to get something started there and launch a church service, and it just wasn't happening. And so I said, “Um, you have a place to live, you have a living room. Can you find someone—you think you can find someone—that would meet with you in your living room, and you could read a chapter of the Bible? You can say, ‘What’s it saying? What’s it saying to you personally, and what action are you going to take?’ And you discuss those things together. And then you pray for one another. And then you say, ‘Hey, over the course of the next three months, let’s try to find something to do out in the community together to make the love of Jesus visible, meeting a need, healing a hurt, serving in some way, and let’s get ready in case there’s an opportunity to share the gospel. Can you do that?’” Yes.
And within a couple of weeks, it wasn't just that person, that church planter, with another friend. They had a living room full of people. Okay, now they train other people. It's a very simple process. That group multiplies into two. That group multiplies into four. That group multiplies into eight. And guess what? You have a full church building; you're ready to launch in that building that was given, but it takes about a year. And you don't start there. You start with small, reproducible groups. And um, it was just a pivot and an aha moment for someone who was called to start a church—that I can start with a mini church, which that’s what an impact group is. Jesus said, “Where two or three are gathered, I am there.” And so you start this group; that group reproduces, and that’s how the movement is generated—exponential movement.
So that was a couple of the core elements of discipleship movements practically applied in a church situation. Um, I want to look now at one or two of the qualities—because they’re elements and they’re qualities and then killers—and apply a couple of the qualities to your practical setting in a church where you serve. Um, as I look at this list of what Dr. Garrison called observable qualities, one of the things is OJT. So OJT stands for on-the-job training for key church leadership. Um, and another thing there is decentralized leadership training. And so what that means is there has to be a way for people to be trained without having to leave their home or their home church.
Now, 34 years ago, I not only had to leave my home and my home church, I had to leave my home state, physically move, find a place to live, find a way to just support myself, and then shortly after, a wife and a baby, just a couple of years after that. So I had to move to an entirely new state to go to Bible college and to seminary. Uh, and the cost was exorbitant—to move, to find a place to live, to go to Bible college or seminary. And if exponential movement is going to happen, we have to find a way for training to happen without people having to leave; it has to be in—it has to be in indigenous—in the same space where people live and where they serve. And so this seminary is doing that because you can—I mean, people are all over—are all over the North America, all over—can be all over the world—watching these courses and then coming in periodically to do the in-person classes that are the requirement. So that's one way to do that.
The mission organization that I lead is called Impact Multiplied. We have a decentralized or an on-the-job training process called the DiscipleMakers Institute. And with the DiscipleMakers Institute, there is a practicum. And so I want to explain what a practicum is and the difference between Bible college, seminary, and a ministry practicum, because often people go to Bible college or seminary and then they come into our practicum. Uh, and sometimes they just go—they’re—they’re raised up within the church and they do the practicum immediately. And we have that happening in several countries and in several states as well. And so in a Bible college or seminary setting—and again, I went to six years of Bible college—so I did a four-year degree, did two years of graduate work at that same Bible institute, Christwell Center for Biblical Studies. Then I went to Southwestern Theological Seminary in Fort Worth for a few years. And then I did additional seminary through Liberty Seminary and Trinity Seminary. And so I have a lot of classroom experience. And so when we go to Bible college, when we go to seminary, the focus is cognitive. And what I mean by that is it’s—it’s—there’s a knowledge focus. So there are courses, there are classrooms, there are tests, there are term papers. If you pass the tests and get a good grade on your papers, eventually you're going to get a degree. And so that is—that’s called cognitive-oriented learning. So it’s knowledge-based. And so a practicum is behavior and cognitive always intertwined. So there are cognitive goals and behavioral goals that don’t happen sequentially. They coalesce and they happen at the same time. Um, so it’s—it may be helpful to think about it like a required residency for a medical doctor. There’s a lot of classroom education that happens to get a medical degree, but just because you have a medical degree does not mean that you can practice medicine. You cannot get a license to practice medicine in the United States with a medical degree. You have to do a minimum of a one-year residency. And most of the time it’s longer than that, depending on the type of medicine that you’re going to practice. And so your residency, after you get your degree, that is required for your lure as a physician, is a place to do three things: Number one, you gain specialized knowledge; Number two, you have hands-on experience; Number three, all that you do is supervised by a seasoned physician. Okay, and so a ministry practicum is exactly that. And so you are getting specialized knowledge. And for our organization, it’s what we call the four pillars. And I’ll express the four pillars, the four essential elements of fruitful ministry. You get hands-on experience because there are immediate ministry goals and requirements. You have to do ministry, not just learn. And then you are with what we call a validating pastor or a credentialed ministry leader that validates both your learning goals and your ministry goals that they have happened each month. And it happens in four quarters. It’s like a one-year residency. And so there are four quarters, each 13 weeks, that focus on the four pillars.
Now, why am I saying this? Because in principle, you cannot have a missionary movement without a training process that’s intentional, on the job, on the field where it’s happening. For instance, we have—we have a director of DMI practicum in Uganda. It’s in the city of Fort Portal, and there are villages, outlying villages, all around Fort Portal, and right now there are 35 leaders doing the DMI process, and they have actually launched groups in each of the 35 villages, and many of them have built churches—just buildings—in the villages. Uh, often the buildings are—are made out of—I’ve been in—I’ve actually spoken in the buildings, and they are—they don’t have electricity. They don’t have indoor plumbing. We—we gave them all of these locations solar lights. So they have lights that they can sit out in the sun, and it’s lit inside with the solar lights. Um, but they are making disciples in the villages in these buildings made out of sticks and mud and cow dung, but churches are forming there, and thousands have come—come to the Lord, but they are learning and doing at the same time, led by one of our directors in Fort Portal, Uganda. Um, so after the end of the practicum, they are—they graduate, they can be licensed to ministry, and then after an additional year of service validated on the field, they are ordained as a—as a pastor or whatever area that God is calling them to—to be a key leader in ministry. And so there has to be transferable and repeatable processes. They’re very intentional. Discipleship movements don’t just happen.
So what’s your extraordinary prayer process? What is your abundant gospel-sowing process? Uh, if you don’t have one, you’re welcome to use our prayer stations. If you don’t have one in terms of gospel sowing, use the three circles. If you don’t have a leadership practicum where people can learn and do, go on dmi-equip.org and look at that practicum and how it works. Because these intentional tools can reproduce leaders and generate exponential multiplication of disciples, disciple-makers, and churches. When we talk about missions, that’s what we’re talking about—exponential discipleship, exponential church multiplication, and doing that in an intentional way, empowered by the Holy Spirit of God, aligned with God’s word, the Bible.