If you really want to understand why we're different and what this movement can look like, then these books are all truly must-reads.

Goes without saying: The Bible. We're fans of the ESV. The game-changer = reading the whole book, cover to cover, more than once.

Letters to the Church by Francis Chan (The Why Behind Church Done Differently) (Get the big idea of this message on Youtube here.)

Building a Discipling Culture by Mike Breen (A Practical Guide For Solo or Group Discipleship)

Contagious Disciple Making by David Watson (A Frontier Proven Framework for Creating Disciple Making Movements)

P.S. Not ready to join a DMM style Micro-Church?
Then simply engage in intentional disciple-making through a common small group format by leveraging Ordinary Movement’s discipleship process at: https://ordinarymovement.com

Watch:

We Are Church’s story here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qheANo68eo

Then watch Tampa’s Story here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59I0sXzaT6o

Inspiration for us:

• We Are Church | https://www.wearechurch.com/

• Tampa Underground | https://www.tampaunderground.com/

• KC Underground | https://kcunderground.org/

There are more and we plan to add them here soon.

Independent research on discipleship is showing that despite growth in isolated churches or small networks, broadly, we are here:

• Fewer than 5% of U.S. churches have a reproducing disciple-making culture.

• No U.S. churches were found to show characteristics of viral-like disciple-making movements.

• Only 17% of the church knows what The Great Commission is and what it means.

Further independent research on the Church has found:

• The current wave of de-churching in America exceeds past revivals and crusades, with 40 million Americans leaving the church in the last 25-30 years.

• Every year, about 4,000 churches are planted in the U.S. And every year, about 3,700 churches close.

Some great resources for stats: 

State of Discipleship (discipleship.org)

State of Church (greatopportunity.org)

Here’s the point: We need a massive movement of disciple-making and church planting.

There are about 3.2 billion people without access to the Gospel message. (40% of the world)

And currently only 3% of missionaries and 1% of missions funds goes to the unreached people who have no access.

For a better understanding watch:

1. Why Millions Are Still Unreached by the Gospel
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33uwuIf-uvo

2. State of the World / The Task Remaining
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrHC7hXNoV8

3. The Traveling Team Stats

   https://www.thetravelingteam.org/stats

4. Missions Sending Agency

   https://www.livedead.org/

Here’s the point: We need a massive wave of disciple-making missionaries to unreached people groups.

1. Sharing your faith - Naturally via the Conversation Quadrant

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9TljHre_4g

2. Four Beginner Habits of Disciple-Making

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1sgS5FN9LU

3. Making a prayer calendar

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zunEXAeh70

4. Lead a Discovery Bible Study (for unchurched folks)

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI0M7Ndkx8I

   Alpha is a great alternative resource to to Discovery Bible Study: https://alphausa.org/

5. Lead an Ordinary Movement Group (for churched folks)

   https://ordinarymovement.com/

6. Understand Phases of Disciple-Making | The 4 Fields Analogy

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXvWZr-sWKc

Not sure where to start? Connect with us and we’ll coach you!

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