Conversation Guide 3 | Cultivating Disciple Making Movements

Conversation Guide 3 – Cultivating Movements

This conversation guide is designed to shift your focus beyond counting members, buildings, or institutions.

YOU WILL BE CHALLENGED BY JESUS’ VISION FOR HIS FATHER’S KINGDOM AND INSPIRED BY THE APOSTLES’ COMMITMENT TO HIS METHODS.

Their approach often went against common business strategies and cultural expectations, yet it led to movements that transformed entire communities.

As you work through this guide, you will explore what it means to cultivate a multiplying movement of disciples and churches. Rather than measuring success by size or structure, you will be encouraged to focus on simple, faithful steps that advance God’s kingdom in ways that last.

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Guide 3 Overview

This Guide provides a solid foundation when local church, mission agency or denominational leaders want to cultivate a movement of multiplying disciples and church plants across a district, state or country. With inspiration from the New Testament letters this equipping includes learning to think theologically, gaining insights from Jesus’ and Paul’s district work, a study of Paul’s movement practices, identifying movement leaders and churches, and developing a movement multiplication plan.

Visionary ministers, local church, mission agency and denominational leaders who are committed to the apostles’ vision of “no place left” where the gospel has not been shared.

This equipping can be delivered in a weekend retreat, over several weekends, or one evening a week over several weeks. It is ideal for either in-person or Zoom formats. The workshop host or facilitator could be a local minister/pastor, a key local leader, or a regional denominational or ministry/missions leader seeking to foster a movement. Participants will be active in disciple making and in multiplying disciples—and also be planting and/or coaching multiplying planting teams. All participants will do this training with their teams.

The host/facilitator needs to download Conversation Guide 3 (FREE) and the videos (FREE) from here.

Each participant will need:

(1) A printed Conversation Guide 3: Cultivating Movements—in which to write notes and plans.

(2) A supply of Discovery Bible Reading bookmarks and Discover Jesus starter Bibles (of Mark, John and Acts).

(3) A copy of Your Church Has Changed (Signs 2021).

Participants will use their own Bibles, and most will also want to read Following the Apostles’ Vision (Signs 2019)—so it is a good plan for facilitators to have a supply available.

All printed guides, bookmarks and books are available from HopeBooks and the Adventist Book Centre Online.