Movement Building 101

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What is a movement?A spiritual movement is....

God workingThrough a Team of

Like-hearted disciples To WIN BUILD SEND

Towards the fulfillment of the GREAT COMMISSION

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4 marks of movement…1. Connecting lost people to Jesus

2. Life-changing discipleship

3. Multiplying leaders

4. Generating self-sustaining local resources

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‘the Lord is not slow in keeping his promise as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance’

~ 2 Peter 3:9 ~

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7 movement building principles1. Praying and Mobilising Concerted Prayer

2. Sowing and Reaping

3. Filtering out Ripe Fruit

4. Building Multiplying Disciples

5. Building Personal and Biblical Conviction

6. Establishing Credibility

7. Finding and Increasing Existing Leadership

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Praying and Mobilising Concerted Prayer

“when man works, man works. When man prays, God works.”

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Sowing and Reaping‘Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.’

~ Galatians 6:7-9 ~

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Filtering out Ripe FruitJesus’ example of filtering out ripe fruit(Mark 1:17, 3:13-14, Luke 9:57-62)

“It all started by Jesus calling a few men to follow Him. This revealed immediately the direction His evangelistic strategy would take. His concern was not with programs to reach the multitudes, but with men whom the multitudes would follow.. Men were His method of winning the world to God.

- Robert ColemanThe Master Plan of Evangelism

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Filtering out Ripe Fruit

“One must find the committed few to reach the many.” You can’t evangelise (or work with) everyone first.

- Church growth principle of “selectivity”

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Building Multiplying Disciples

Paul’s example (2 Tim 2:2)

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Building Multiplying Disciples

3 basic characteristics of a “multiplying disciple”- Faithfulness

- Availability

- Teachability

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Building Multiplying Disciples

“You cannot impart what you do not possess. If you don’t know it - truly know it, you can’t give

it”

Our primary interest is not how many students are in our meetings. Our question is “What kind

and how many movements are in our students?”

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Building Personal and Biblical Conviction

Importance of personal conviction

How to build and deepen personal conviction?

Growth in personal conviction occurs by- Teaching the word of God to them (2 Tim 3:16-17)- Involving them in experience- Giving them constant opportunity to surrender to the Lordship of Christ.

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Establishing CredibilityThose who are familiar with the teachings of Christ (Acts 17:11)

Those who are not familiar with the teachings of Christ (1 Peter 2:12, Matthew 5:16)

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Finding and Increasing Existing Leadership

Paul’s example

Expand the leadership base

Increase student ownership, involvement and leadership

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SIM

THINK OWN

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Discussion Time

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Discussion Questions

1. Rate, using a scale of 1 - 5 (5 being the best) on how we are performing as a movement using the seven principles as evaluative criteria.

2. Choose 3 principles that we are doing well in / not doing well in. How so?

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What’s Next?

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