Vision: God’s Glory among your people
(and reproduce this by vision-casting)
“CPMs are God’s
work for His Glory. The Holy Spirit is the One who authors and empowers CPMs.
• Know
the mind and heart of God, and join in His work of reaching a
UPG/city/tribe/nation.
•
Share this vision to see co-laborers raised up.
•(This
is a continual process starting with outsiders and moving to insiders. As the
movement grows, the main harvest force will be insiders.)”-Simple Steps[1]
CPM/DMM Training
God’s Glory…the compelling story
I was ruined for God’s glory years ago. Jesus had me at,
“come and follow Me.” The worthiness, the sheer otherness of the glory of God
was cause for life trajectory pause as I considered what it meant to obey the
One with whom I was falling in love, Jesus.
The Profundity of the
Simplicity of Jesus’ Way
As a college student at Texas Christian University, in the
early 1980’s, my future husband and I had been bitten by the profundity of the
simplicity of what it is to make reproducing groups of disciples. In my rather
myopic life experience of making reproducing disciples in the context of 100
Sorority girls, I saw a glimpse of potential for cascading movements to Christ. Myself and
two other members, the only believers at the time, began to pray through the
list of names of this campus group. By the time we graduated, 50 of these women
had either come to Christ or recommitted to walk with Him, resultantly. We were
intentional in extraordinary prayer, we were intent on adoring worship, and we
desired to demonstrate as well as declare the goodness of God in the beauty of
His good news. We saw generational growth of discipleship groups down to the 4th
generation. The little world of that small slice of humanity was turned right
side up for God’s glory. We were being discipled by others, as we were making
reproducing disciples. That was the norm of what it meant to follow Jesus. The passages of Matthew 10, Luke 10 were our
sustenance: the obedience of following Jesus’ way became the centrifuge of our
spiritual DNA. Transformation of individual hearts, lovingly committed to accountability
in a group process, released streams of campus influence for the gospel.
My husband had also experienced the similar journey in his
spheres of campus influence.
We were imprinted for life with a desire to make disciples
who make disciples, who make disciples, in groups.
Disciple Making Movements are not a new idea or trend. The
intended Kingdom of God reality of movements to Christ has been glimpsed since
the Early Church.
1991
The part we were missing, as we considered heading to the
mission field among Muslim UPGs was the piece of seeing these groups become
fully adoring, healthy functioning reproducing households of fellowships…being
the reproducing Bride together.
The reason for longing for this…God’s glory.
Recruits to our sending organization, Beyond, have shared with us
that one of the keys which sold them to partner, was the reality that every one
of the leaders with whom they have interacted has exhibited this unbridled passion
for the glory of God to be demonstrated/declared among the UUPGs/UPGs. To the
launch of cascading movements to Christ among these UPGs, the driver must and
need be the love and obedience of Christ’ heart to flow out of this vision.
Living out of the overflow of personal growing intimacy with Christ is key in
this process. To be in Christ, first and foremost, lends one to be fashioned
into the type of vessel of whom God is able to bless His name in the process.
“Fulfillment of the Great Commission is primarily a function of
relationship that moves in love of God and love for others. To confuse strategy
and tactics for the motivation of love is to replace the grace of God with the
ambition of the leader and or the drives of organization.” Ray Wheeler
1. What do I need to stop doing in order to be engaged in the launch of a Disciple-Making Movement?
2. What do I need to start doing in order to be engaged in the launch of a Disciple-Making Movement?
3. What I need to continue doing in order to be engaged in the launch of a Disciple-Making Movement?