DMM Overview: The Shifts Needed to Complete the Great Commission
Is it time to rethink how we do missions? The "DMM Overview 2015" offers a radical yet biblical challenge to traditional ministry models—highlighting how Disciple Making Movements (DMM) can overcome the long-standing barriers that keep the Gospel from spreading effectively.
What Is a Disciple Making Movement (DMM)?
DMMs are grassroots spiritual revolutions where ordinary people multiply obedient disciples in their natural networks. They prioritize obedience over knowledge, simplicity over systems, and local leadership over professional dependency.
Why Has Traditional Missions Hit a Ceiling?
The current model is perfectly designed to produce the results it’s getting: slow growth, high cost, and minimal multiplication. This presentation outlines 16 barriers that stall global missions:
- Too slow and expensive
- Stops short of full obedience and transformation
- Produces believers, not followers
- Depends on professionals
- Targets the wrong people and segments
- Fails to reproduce leaders or churches
Solution: Shift from event-based evangelism to obedience-based reproduction—starting with every believer.
Why Do Disciple Making Movements Work So Well?
The DMM strategy is simple, scalable, and sustainable because:
- It multiplies disciples through everyday relationships
- It works across rural, urban, illiterate, and persecuted settings
- It is low-cost and reproducible without outside funding
- It empowers ordinary people—not just pastors or professionals
- It creates leaders through coaching and obedience, not hierarchy
What Makes DMM Different?
DMM flips the script:
- Traditional: Teach to know → Learn more → Maybe act
- DMM: Read Scripture → Obey → Share → Multiply
The heartbeat of DMM is this: “If you love Me, you will obey My commands.” (John 14:15)
How Does Multiplication Happen?
Movements spread through natural networks—friends, family, workplace, and affinity groups. Leaders are coached to replicate:
- Find a Person of Peace
- Launch a Discovery Bible Study (DBS)
- Coach toward obedience and reproduction
- Form churches from the inside out
- Repeat across new networks
The DMM Formula: Simple and Viral
“Kingdom growth = Obedient Disciples × Natural Networks × Empowered Local Leaders”
This is not church-as-usual. It’s Church as Jesus intended—multiplying generations of disciples, churches, and leaders in every segment of society.
Are You Ready to Join a Movement?
If you're tired of fruitless effort and long for Kingdom impact, the DMM model offers a refreshing path forward. Simple. Scalable. Spirit-led. Effective.
Let’s move from ministry to movement—because no segment should be left behind.
Based on “DMM Overview 2015” by Harry Brown, Vice President of International Ministries, Cityteam International.
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