Disciple-Making & Church-Planting Movements

Church Planting Movements are remarkable movements that see the rapid multiplication of church. David Garrisons well-known definition is: “a rapid multiplication of indigenous churches planting churches that sweep through a people group or population segment”.

Neill Mims and Bill Smith say that CPMs have 5 reproducing elements

• Reproducing bridges that lead to massive gospel witness

• Reproducing gospel presentations

• Reproducing discipleship that turns new believers into CPM partners

• Rapidly reproducing churches

• Reproducing leadership development

To qualify as a CPM, the following criteria must be met:

• A 25% Annual Growth Rate in Total Churches for the past two years

• A 50% Annual Growth Rate in New Churches for the past two years

• Field-based affirmation that a CPM is emerging

These movements focus on evangelism and then the discipling of converts by equipping them to evangelise and disciple others.

Most CPMs occur in Asia and other parts of the third world but there are groups implementing the CPM principles in USA, Australia and New Zealand. Listen to the podcasts on Steve Addison's Movements site.

• Summary of Church-Planting Movements - David Garrison

• CPM Journal, January-March 2006 – Fundamentals

• CPM Journal, April-June 2006 – Prayer

• CPM Awareness Videos

• 10 Characteristics of Church-planting Movements - (video)

  • The video of the Bruce Carlton training.

• Movements Start With One – John Ferguson, Dave Ferguson, Tammy Melchien (Exponential 2012, audio)

Miraculous Movements - book by Jerry Trousdale

Multiplying Church Movements

Viral Missional Communities - Ed Stetzer (Some audio problems)

Moving Towards Church Multiplication Movements (Part 1 of a 5-part series of articles) – Ed Stetzer

How NOT To Create A Missional Movement – Todd Engstrom (Austin Stone)

Comparisons

T4T Or DMM (DBS)? – comparing Church Planting Movements and Disciple-Making Movements – Steve Smith in Mission Frontiers (Also see Part 2: the mechanics of each)

Following And Fishing – Steve Addison training

Steve Addison led training multiplying disciples, groups and churches everywhere.

He advises that you go to similar training with a practitioner rather than rely on these video presentations.

You can download the notes here. Do check out Steve’s Movements website too.

A playlist of videos used for DMM training

Debates

Websites

• TouchPoint – David Watson

• Accelerate Teams – David Broodryk plus the sister site with training resources. (See also David’s blog)