The Disciple-Making Movement (DMM) mindset is all about multiplication. We love the traditional church, but we are losing ground in Japan and need to MULTIPLY faster than typical traditional church growth and discipleship strategies allow. We’re learning that if we follow the disciple-making model Jesus used and taught his original disciples, we can expect miraculous, multiplying "Mark 4:8" fruit!

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The Result and the Process: When modern “kingdom movements” began to emerge in the 1990s, the term “Church Planting Movements” (CPMs) was used to describe the visible results. Jesus promised to build his church, and these CPMs show him doing that in marvelous ways. He also assigned his followers a specific role toward that result: to make disciples of all ethnē. Our job is to implement the disciple-making processes by which Jesus builds his church. These processes, done well, can result in Church Planting Movements. 

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As CPMs emerged, best practice strategies and tactics to make reproducing disciples began to be identified and passed on. God has shown his creativity by using several sets of disciple-making “tactics” or processes to result in CPMs. These include Training for Trainers (T4T), Disciple Making Movements, Any Three, and Four Fields, among others. A closer examination of these approaches indicates that: 1) the CPM principles or strategies are mostly the same; 2) these approaches all are bearing fruit by reproducing disciples and churches; and 3) all reciprocally influence the other sets of tactics.  Definitions of Key Terms for Strategic Planning and 2414 Efforts

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You can find out about DMM and read some amazing stories and testimonies of what God is doing all over the world through the books listed at the bottom of this page. In the meantime, hover over the images below for a step-by-step explanation of our overall strategy for making multiplying disciples among the Japanese.