In this video (part 2, see part 1 here) Jerry Trousdale (author of Miraculous Movements) covers counter intuitive aspects of Disciple Making strategies. Some highlights for me were:
- discussion of the importance of obedience based discipleship (starting at 18 minutes)
- “This is what a Discovery Bible Study looks like…” (starting at 24.5 minutes)
- “David Garrison is the author of Church Planting Movements. David and I were together comparing notes as he was writing his new book A Wind In The House of Islam. As we compared our data, we realized that from Indonesia to Africa and all over the world the same thing is happening. And then David said, You know Jerry, since I wrote Church Planting Movements people often ask me to come and see the movement that is happening where they are. And often times I’ll go and discover that it is not really a movement, because it is not really multiplying rapidly. It is more like church growth on steroids. It’s good, but its not really a movement. You know what is the one thing that makes the difference, the one thing that makes the difference between a church planting movement and church planting on steroids? It is obedience. When you have the obedience [based discipleship] DNA, you get movements, but when you don’t have it you can have good church planting but you’re not getting multiplication because you’re not having the dramatic transformation.” (from 34 to 36 minutes in)
“Now the side benefit of this is, that this makes enormous numbers of disciples” (starting at 29 minutes)
“Replication and multiplication happen very naturally” (30:30 minutes)