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The More Disciples Podcast | Episode 1
Overview
Are you ready to make more disciples of Jesus? Traditional disciple-making methods are too slow to keep up with population growth. Traditional disciple-making methods aren’t reaching your unchurched neighbors and they aren’t reaching people groups around the world who are without access to the Gospel. But there is a solution. In the More Disciples Podcast, we’re going to break it down step-by-step and show you exactly how you can start to make More Disciples, right away. In this episode, you’ll meet the hosts, learn about their disciple-making journeys, and gain an understanding of the basics of disciple-making movements.
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I have learned about DMM through Damian Gerke’s book In the Way. In listening to quite a number of your podcasts, I am encouraged and instructed by your sharing. Maybe I simply have not found the correct podcast as yet, but I do not hear an explanation about what is involved in the “TRAINING” you speak about so often. I suggest that you need to clarify this issue. What is “training”? Who trains? How would I get training? What does training cost? A critical issue….as some would see DMM as a PROGRAM not unlike other Evangelism Programs.
Hi Gerald. The word, “training,” can’t be quantified to include a specific curriculum, unfortunately, because there is no one office that coordinates all things DMM. So each organization, implementer, movement practitioner, etc., defines DMM in a different way. That must sound extremely confusing – but it’s actually a byproduct of something positive. The *POSITIVE* side, if there is one, is that none of these early pioneers cared enough about money or fame to try to copyright the concepts. They used the attitude, “Freely I have received, Freely I give.” So virtually every movement (and every practitioner/implementer within those movements) has a different outline. However, anecdotally, I can tell you that, having been around these trainers for a number of years, MOST of the training has ended up being VERY similar. In fact, it might be so similar that — up to 80 to 90% of all strategies, skills, and principles are very nearly the same. They vary only in that last 20 to 30%. To get a ROUGH idea of what makes up MOST of the training, you could go to https://zume.training/training/. The reason we might recommend that site to you is that it’s a) available 24/7, b) available free, and c) widely used and easily reproducible. Once you make it through the Zume course (around 20 hours of experience and practice with a group of 4-12 people), you’ll probably be doing 80 to 90% of the things that virtually ALL DMM implementers seek to do. Hope that helps!
Doug