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Advisory
Please note that a wide variety of people will be taking this training. Some will have been pursuing movements for only a few years. Some will have been involved in movement efforts for many years. The levels and types of experience will vary greatly.
In designing this training, we have no way of knowing which elements of being an outside catalyst you already know and which you do not. Even with topics with which you are quite familiar, there may be gaps in your understanding or experience. In reviewing topics, you may pick up one key new insight or be reminded of something you’ve known but overlooked.
As you go through this training, you have our blessing to adapt it to your needs. You are free to do the lessons in a different order or do just some elements of certain lessons.
While the trainers involved have a lot of experience, obviously we were not able to cover everything. Nor do we claim to be infallible! In reviewing the videos we occasionally disagreed with ourselves… (smile) So listen to the Lord and grapple with these issues with your co-laborers as you take your next steps forward. We pray this training will be of help to you.
Introduction
Watch this video Introduction:
You can also read the text of this video.
Note that the documents in this training page should open in a new tab – so you can close the new tab and this training page tab will still be open.
Introductory Guide Notes. Please follow this document as a group.
Lesson 1 – History of Outside Movement Catalysts
The following video is with Neil Mims, Bill Smith, Curtis Sergeant and Stan Parks (each trainer’s name is linked to their short bio in the same document. ) Once you are in the document you can also just search or read through it instead of following each link.
Start the video and pause video for discussion as directed. Some videos will have pause screens and some will not.
Note the instructions on the Pause Screen to…
Discuss as a Group
1) What important concepts did you hear?
2) How does this apply to your ministry?
3) Is there an Action Step(s)?
Take your time and really work on these concepts and action steps. This is a Marathon, not a Sprint.
Endvision introduction:
Exercise – Do the following exercise(s) together or before your next group session as best suits the group. You can spread these session out over multiple days, weeks, months as you best see fit.
Read these sample Endvisions to spark some thought.
Do this evaluation exercise to consider your pursuit of the Endvision God has given you.
Read through these two documents describing the Endvision process.
The first one lays out Step-by-step process of How to Discern an Endvision.
The second one shows you how this happened in one specific context –
A Case Study in Reverse Problem Solving.
Spend time as a group praying for God to give you wisdom and inspiration.
Use the following steps to either create or improve your Endvision.
1. Consider what God’s Endvision for your people would look like if fulfilled – write this down and work on editing it.
Are there other people focused on the same group? Do you know their Endvision? Should you be partnering with them to created or improve an Endvision statement?
What concrete actions can you do to get a very clear picture of your goal?
How are you /will you casting vision to find others with a similar vision or help people catch the vision?
2. Consider the conditions necessary for you to get there.
Do you need demographic studies? partnerships? materials? personnel?
3. Work backwards to your present situation.
Spend a significant time dreaming about what it would be like in the future. Think about all the relationships, how people interact, and what’s happening in every area.
Now think about all the things that would have had to happen to get to this point?
What would be the key milestones that would have to be achieved?
What might be the critical things would have had to happen, without which reaching the goal would have been impossible?
4. Start making some goals and action plans, for how you might reach the desired future.
Separate these into current efforts over the next 3-6 months and future efforts that you are not yet ready to pursue but need to make sure you lay the groundwork when possible and address in the future.
Optional Resources
– For more information about how the modern Outside Catalyst role emerged, read this short historical overview by David Garrison.
– For history buffs, this is a much more in-depth dissertation by Bruce Carlton analyzing some of the paradigm changes and how CPMs emerged.
We appreciate your feedback to improve this training – after each lesson you can click the feedback link and give us your input and suggestions.
Lesson 2 – Kingdom Parable – Hidden Treasure
Note to facilitators:
1. You are free to adjust the timing of these sessions depending on the timing of your group – some may do one or more lessons per week if they are spending a lot of time each week. Others will perhaps spend 2 or more weeks on one lesson. You may also do parts of the lessons separately and then discuss them during group time. The goal is to use the material to improve your catalyzation ministry – not to cover content – so take as long as you need to really work through the various issues.
2. In these lesson plans, we do not typically reference “lesson plan” follow-up from the previous session. We encourage you to incorporate that follow up as you start each session before going on to the new material. Each module, take some time to “look back” and have anyone tell any key stories of how they used the material from the last session — or how they have adapted their planning and/or implementation because of these sessions together.
Follow-up
Follow up the homework from the last module about Endvision. Have everyone share their Endvision statement and some of their plans with the group and ask for feedback. If they do not have one yet – make it a matter of serious prayer going forward that God will give each participant a clear, inspiring Endvision that they will be passionate to pursue for God’s glory. Your group should give personal attention to anyone who is struggling to define their vision. This can happen in personal or online meetings or via emails. (People cannot move forward easily with the rest of the equipping if they do not have a clear, inspiring Endvision.)
Matthew 13:44
Let’s add more Biblical foundation of why we seek “God’s Kingdom here on earth as it is in heaven” with a devotion on Matthew 13:44
If you have multiple small groups you can discuss the following as a large group: have a few people share what they learned and how they will apply it.
Discuss this video on the Hidden Treasure with Laura Smith:
Reflection on Matthew 13:44-45
Until your next meeting each of you pray and reflect on these Kingdom parables of the “pearl” and “treasure” and your God-given Endvision and the passionate pursuit of God’s Kingdom and how/if this is your passion and pursuit.
Spend time in prayer as a group now about this topic.
Raising our Sails for Movements – read and do the exercise in this document
Needed Paradigm Changes – Go to this document to see some answers from other people pursuing movements and then you can share your answers as well.
Seven Deadly Sins – Ways to Kill a Movement – read and discuss the following excerpt from David Garrison’s book on CPM. How does this apply to you? Spend time discussing and praying.
Critical Elements in Disciple Making Movements (DMM) – this document shows one group’s view of critical elements in DMM. DMM is one of several approaches God has used to start CPMs so your approach may be a bit different from this one (so some of these Elements may not apply).
Read through the document and then list and evaluate the critical elements of your own approach. Consider if you have a clear picture of the critical elements you are aiming for in catalyzing movements. Pray and work on any clarity needed in this for your ministry.
Lesson 3 – Movements Around the World
The next video introduces the “24:14 Coalition” which is made up of many churches and mission agencies who have a vision to see all people groups and places of the world reached through Church Planting Movements
The 24:14 Vision with Stan Parks
What did you learn from this video? Do you have any questions or clarifications?
What did you learn and how will you apply it?
Myths about Movements with Stan Parks
This training was recorded in 2020. Here is a link to a recent video update in December 2024 on the 24:14 Vision.
See these links for the book 24:14 – A Testimony to All Peoples with chapters by 37 authors from 10 countries. is available at https://2414now.net/resources/ as a PDF book in several languages (free) and on Amazon (Kindle and paperback), as well as on a number of other platforms such as Apple Books (free) and Barnes & Noble (free). Our goal is to make it as widely available as possible. For bulk orders of the paperback (30+), email 2414coalition@2414now.net.
Lesson 4 – Role of the Outsider
The next video talks about the role of the “Outside Catalyst”. This is the title of this overall training. You will notice that this role is needed whether or not someone is just “visiting time to time” or is an “outsider” who permanently lives among the people group.
Some of you watching this may be “insiders” – so hopefully this training will help you learn more about your outside partners’ role and also help you if/when you are working as an outsider.
Outsiders or Insiders will have slightly different dynamics. We have the example of Paul overviewed in the next video as an example of someone who visited from time to time and did not live permanently among his “people group” or “place” Pay attention to the “relationships” that were developed by Paul and others that give us a glimpse of how a church and movement can begin. Paul developed insiders, or left other outsider team members in a place to continue to develop the “insiders”.
This video will stop several times for discussion about the topics. If you are doing this with a large group, feel free to sometimes discuss in small groups and sometimes discuss as a large group – whatever is most helpful to you. Make sure you are taking notes of key concepts and action steps.
The Role of the Outsider with Bill Smith
Note: the audio is hard to hear at times – make sure you choose the CC button at the bottom right of the screen to turn on the subtitles.
Work through the following document based on surveys of East African CPM Inside Leaders
Start of the T4T Story with Ying Kai
After watching this video, then read and discuss this early case study about the same movement.
There is a growing library of books detailing various movements and movement principles. See this link for a listing (with links) of the books: 2414now.net/all-the-movement-books/
Lesson 5 – Finding the Right Insider
As we talked about earlier, please make sure everyone is taking “notes for concepts and follow-up action steps” either in a notebook or a document. Also, have time to discuss these notes in your group(s). We can definitely learn from each other.
Make sure you give everyone individual time to think and pray about put these concepts and action steps during the sessions. You can take your time and continue working on various exercises between group sessions. Remember that this is a long-term effort, not a collection of content to “finish”.
Our next session starts a discussion on “How to Find the Right Insiders”. That is, the people who you pray will become the leaders who start new churches and prayerfully lead a growing movement of disciples and churches.
Finding the Right Insider with Bill Smith
Reflection – Finding the Right Insider
Do this exercise on finding co-laborers – this is a framework you can use to cast vision to potential partners.
Listening Movement Case Study – read and discuss this.
Listening Movement Video Case Study
Lesson 6 – Outsiders and Insiders Serving Together
Biblical Study and Prayer about Outsiders and Insiders Together
Outsiders and Insiders Serving Together with Bill Smith
Do this Bible Study on Being Like Barnabas
Watch and discuss this video showing Dave Hunt and Aila Tasse discussing their relationship as an outside and inside catalyst. They have served together in starting movements in the Horn of Africa and East Africa.
Here is a link to a short overview of their initial ministry together – and it has a link to Dave’s dissertation which goes into much greater depth and has some great information.
Discuss this video on Serving Local Leaders with Bill Smith
Lesson 7 – Advantages and Disadvantages of being an OC at a distance
Some of you are either currently or perhaps in the future will be an outside catalyst who lives outside the homeland of the people group you are trying to reach or you will be working with someone in this role.
What are some of the advantages of this role? List and discuss the advantages. Take notes of your group discussion.
Advantages of being an Outside Catalyst at a Distance with Curtis Sergeant
In watching the video, see if there are any additional points you can learn. Make a list of their points but don’t discuss yet.
1. Now look at this document for a listing of the points discussed in the video in case any were not clear on the video.
List of Advantages from Discussion
2. Discuss any new points you learned.
3. What is one (or more) item(s) from this discussion that you can improve on? How will you do that?
Now discuss it as a group – what are some of the disadvantages of being an outside catalyst who lives outside the homeland of the people group they are trying to reach?
Why Live Among Your People? by Stan Parks – read this document and discuss your perspective on it in light of your discussion on advantages and disadvantages of being an outside catalyst.
Spend some time personally and then as a group thinking and praying together about any insights, desires, and action steps that have come from this session.
Lesson 8 – God’s Heart and Four Fields
Look at these two similar documents. Are familiar with this framework? If so, do you use this to train others?
Heart and 4 Fields diagram – T4T specifics
Heart and 4 Fields diagram – DMM specifics
Note that while there are some differences in how different CPM approaches like T4T, DMM, Four Fields, etc adjust and customize this framework, the same basic elements are true of all CPMs. We are not arguing that you have to use this framework, but we do strongly believe that all the elements described here need to be addressed in your CPM efforts.
If you are not familiar with this Heart & Field framework, then watch this video with Steve Smith
If you are familiar with this Heart & Field framework, then watch this video with Steve Smith
They are the same video but with different questions at the pause points.
These videos describe
Lesson 9 – Prayer
The Importance of Prayer by Jerry Trousdale
Read this article about the Prayer Life of a Movement Catalyst.
What is your Prayer Strategy? with Stan Parks
As outlined in the video – What is your prayer strategy? Discuss as a group and highlight key action steps.
1. Write out answers to these questions for you personally
What are your key prayer strategies? What are key components? What are strengths and weaknesses? What are prayer resources and connections you have? How are you connecting to existing prayer networks? How are you mobilizing new prayer efforts?
2. Discuss these as a group and borrow each other’s ideas.
Prayer Strategy Discussion with Stan Parks – watch the video to see if you get any new ideas or adjustments.
Prayer and Fasting – watch and discuss this video.
Do some or all of this Prayer Strategy Evaluation – it is very comprehensive, especially if you do all the DBS’. Alternatively, you can do just the evaluative questions and then do the DBS’ and come up with action steps for areas that need strengthening. Since there are 19 points, you can also spread this out over the coming weeks as part of the overall training.
Lesson 10 – Pace
All our training is about planting healthy churches and disciples that can multiply. There is a need for quality discipleship through regular patterns of learning and obedience. We cover this “depth” of discipleship we want to see in most sessions of this training. But a key to disciple depth, AND — if we want to see many people reached for Christ — we have to help people and churches multiply rapidly. Many movements have found that a key in having a movement that is deep AND wide we must have a pattern like Paul sought in 2 Thessalonians 3:1: “pray for us that the message of the Lord may spread rapidly and be honored, just as it was with you”. The pace of discipleship, sharing the Gospel, and starting new groups that become churches — “Pace/importance/urgency” in multiplication actually helps deepen discipleship as well as see more groups and churches started.”
Pace – Elephants vs Rabbit growth – go through the slides and discuss the ideas in this PowerPoint.
Pace is a Key for CPM with Curtis Sergeant
CPM Pace Counterintuitives – go through the slides and discuss the ideas in this PowerPoint.
Persecution and Pace with Curtis Sergeant
Do this Bible Study on Pauls’ Missionary Journeys
Pace of Paul with Curtis Sergeant
Spend some time personally and then as a group thinking and praying together about any insights, desires, and action steps that have come from this session.
Lesson 11 – Catalyzing Resources and finding Funding for Resources
This lesson is a series of videos to work through – work on what you need to apply from these topics.
Watch the following Video “What Must be Done” and discuss it as a group.
Work through this video on Mobilizing Resources with Bill Smith
Discuss the following videos and work on any needed Action Steps
Catalyzing and Funding Resources with Bill Smith
Catalyzing and Funding Low Tech Resources with Bill Smith
Catalyzing and Funding Personal Follow-up and Training with Bill Smith
Resources for Your People with Bill Smith
Spend time as a group praying for God to provide partners, resources, funds as they are needed and most of all wisdom to know what to do and not do in these areas. Be specific praying for current and future situations.
Lesson 12 – Money and Movements
Do the following Bible Study on Money – look at each scripture section and answer two questions: how do these biblical principles affect you personally and how do they affect your CPM efforts? (This may be a Bible study you want to adapt to use in your work.)
Discuss the following guidelines on Optimizing the Use of Outside Funds. What has been your experience? Help each other discuss specific situations past (to learn from), present (to make decisions) and future (to plan).
How Funding Affects Reporting with Bill Smith
Discuss the following guidelines on Funding Inside Catalysts. What has been your experience? Help each other discuss specific situations past (to learn from), present (to make decisions) and future (to plan).
Outside Money Disrupting CPMs with Bill Smith
Look at the following scriptural resources on money. Have you and your co-laborers developed these types of resources for the present or future movement you are helping? If so, how can you improve them? If not, what do you need to develop and when do you need to develop the resources and how will you do that? Example – Money Scriptures and Example – Money DBS sets
Empower Don’t Enslave with Bill Smith
Listen to this Equipping Movements for Economic Sustainability podcast with Eric Watt about a very large family of movements and how these business projects have been crucial in avoiding dependence and using business to get into previously untouched areas.
Read this case study about a specific Kingdom Business Project that started a breakthrough in a UPG.
Spend time as a group praying about these dynamics of money and your specific situations.
Take time for each person to write down any changes or steps they need to take in handling local partners and money/resources.
Lesson 13 – Persecution and Perseverance
Do this Bible study together: Perseverance & Persecution Bible Study
Now do this Bible Study on a broader Biblical Overview of Persecution
Read over and discuss: Suggestions for preparing and Going through Persecution
Discuss the following case study as a group: Advancing through Persecution
Prayer: Spend time praying for those you know being currently persecuted.
Work through the following as a group: Persecution Scenarios
Prayer: Spend time praying for wisdom of the team/movement leaders represented in your training group. Pray for each other as you seek to improve preparation for persecution. Pray for courage and strength for each other and for current and future co-laborers.
Conclusion/Action planning:
What do you hear God telling you to do to prepare any materials or emphasize a Biblical understanding of perseverance and persecution with your insiders/partners/churches?
What action steps will you take over the next 3 months as an individual/family, team, church or movement?
Additional Resources:
- 11 Key Questions for responding when violent persecution happens
- Persecution Summary of Biblical Themes
- Suffering and Persecution Blog Series
- Suffering is our Pathway – from Curtis Sergeant’s book, “The Only One” – Go to www.theonlyonebook.com and use the code ONE4FREE to download the entire ebook for free.
- Here is a Persecution Resources folder with some more documents about persecution.
Lesson 14 – The CPM Continuum
The 7 Stage CPM Continuum with Stan Parks
Discuss this document: CPM Continuum Doc. Where is your team on the continuum? How will you move forward?
Spend time as a group praying about these dynamics in your specific situations.
Read Acts 19:1-10. Do you see evidence of a progression like is described in the CPM Continuum? Obviously not an exact match – but do you see similarities or not? What can you learn from this passage? Read one person’s perspective on this passage. CPM Continuum – Biblical Example
Discussion on the CPM Continuum with Stan Parks – what ideas does this spark?
Read through and discuss the following document. What do you learn from this survey and how will you address the challenges? Generational Dynamics and Challenges
Watch this video discussing how to shift your role and spend your time at various stages of the CPM continuum. You can get the powerpoint shown in the video if you want to scroll through it while watching the video.
How to Spend Your Time depends on your CPM Continuum stage with Steve Smith
Work through these questions on how to shift your role and spend your time depending on where you are in the CPM continuum.
Identify the key challenges you are asking God to overcome. Make a plan to recruit prayer supporters to join you in praying and fasting for breakthrough in these areas in a regular way moving forward.
Lesson 15 – CPM Case Studies
Bhojpuri CPM Case Study – what can you learn and apply now or in the future?
Here is an audio interview of Victor John who is a catalyst and leader in the Bhojpuri Church Planting Movement which has started 12+ other movements. After listening to the audio interview, this video will give you some more context on the Bhojpuri movement.
Case Study on the “Wanderers” – what can you learn and apply now or in the future?
Case Study – G People – What can you learn and apply now or in the future?
This G People case study is actually a publicly known – if somewhat messy case study – but all movements are messy! If none of you know who this catalyst is then contact us at oct@2414now.net so we can give you more information that will help you better understand the case study.
Lesson 16 – Ongoing Training Approaches
This module is about various styles, issues, and challenges of how to do on-going equipping of people within new churches and movements. This overall “Outside Catalyst Training” supposes you already have training materials. We pay attention here to how you will plan and roll out training at various points of progress: as an engagement starts, groups start, churches start, and a movement grows. We delve into how to think through reproducibility issues and ways to structure training for disciples, church leaders, church cluster leaders, and movement leaders.
Discuss these videos on Ongoing Training Approaches
1) What are the core movement training tools you use? Are there any action steps to address key issues?
2) What are the refinement processes you use? Any action steps?
3) Can you identify gaps you have? Any action steps?
Movement Training vs. Church Based Equipping
How are you working with insiders to help the leaders and churches grow in ongoing relationships and equipping? Any action steps?
Functional Training vs Advanced Theological Training
How can movements address “advanced theological education” without using an approach that hinders ongoing growth and maturity in the movement?
How can this be done within the movement without sending them to existing Bible colleges and seminaries – which are more focused on the institutional church and professional ministers?
Any Action Steps?
Review some of these Online CPM Training sites. Discuss how you might use any of these existing resources and/or develop / improve your own materials.
Lesson 17 – Deeply Understanding “Model, Assist, Watch, and Leave” (MAWL)
MAWL is in many ways the “Training Cycle.” Many movement catalysts have found that by far the most needed part — the most difficult part — for an “outside catalyst” to begin a “movement” is becoming skilled at what some call “The Training Cycle”. How do we not only “train” (teach for knowledge) but teach believers, especially new believers to “obey” and implement church planting skills like:
- start talking about Jesus with others
- sharing your faith in one or more discussions with people
- leading a Discussion/Participative Bible study,
- how do you help a Bible study group become a church
- how do we raise up leaders over time by repeating this “training process” with others?
and many more skills we could list that are needed for someone to become an obedient disciple.
Any new skill will usually need an “Outside Catalyst” to at least start the local people in “mastering” that skill by not just talking about it, but “Model, Assist, Watch, and Leave” (MAWL) a person to at least somewhat “master” this new skill. If done well, anyone who has learned a skill will turn right around and “Model, Assist, Watch and Leave” others to live out each piece movement lifestyle.
Discuss this video with Curtis Sergeant
- What do you think of this example of a parent teaching their child? What does it teach us about MAWL?
- The one “example” actually had many steps to learning. How does that correspond with CPMs?
Discuss this video with Curtis Sergeant
- What mistakes are you making in the MAWL process?
- Am I a “model” of doing the things that I am training others to do?
- Do you give your partners a chance to see you “model” aspects of what you are teaching them? If not possible for them to see you do it, do you have key partners who are modeling these things for others?
- Where are you at understanding and implementing the “MAWL” training process or am I just “training” and hoping that some of those I train will “get it” and do things without my help?
- Do you have a list of skills and a “training process” for those you impact to be mentored and in turn mentor others in key parts of having faith discussions, prayer, starting Bible study groups, then turning around and raising up others to do these things?
Action Steps
Take time to write down action steps you need to take to improve on key skills and/or implementing MAWL in your work.
Lesson 18 – CPM Coaching and Mentoring systems
leaders.
Discuss this videos on CPM coaching dynamics – it has several segments and you will pause for discussion at different points.
Examine and discuss these coaching tools. What are you doing to coach and be coached? What do you need to change?
Lesson 19 – Parable of the 4 Soils
Pray along with Steve Smith in this video and then continue in a time of prayer as a group.
This video is a “Kingdom Kernel” from Steve Smith about one of the parables of the Kingdom.
Read Matthew 13:3-8, 18-23
What is the main message about the Kingdom of God in this parable?
How will you apply this?
Spend time praying together for God to use you in implementing the truths he has spoken to you in this scripture.
Now listen to some of the conclusions from this group Steve Smith was training. Listen for new insights and applications. Here is a document showing some of the group’s conclusions (note this is their perspective – you may have some different perspectives).
How should this parable affect your plans? Spend time discussing this as a group.
Here is the video and the parallel document with some of the planning ideas from the group Steve was training.
Because of the truth of this parable what is one thing you and your team will give more emphasis to? How will you implement this?
Additional Resources
Here is an in-depth video presentation by Kevin Greeson on 4th Soil persons that gives biblical insights on Jesus’ strategy as well as some modern day examples from current movements.
This video is a continuation of the session with Kevin Greeson leading a group discussion on the concept of 4th Soil persons.
Kevin Greeson also has written several articles about these concepts:
Finding “Fourth Soil” People: Pursuing Movements as Jesus Did
Finding “Fourth-Soil” People: A Movement Case Study from Galilee
Finding “Fourth-Soil” People: Modern Day Application Using the Parable of the Sower as a Field Guide
Lesson 20 – Fueling Movements through Worship, Prayer, Fasting and Signs & Wonders
This lesson will help you evaluate yourself, your team and your broader coalition in terms of how you are doing in terms of worship, prayer, fasting, and signs and wonders.
Watch this video on worship and prayer with Erwin Waelchli
Evaluate the status of worship and prayer as your personal lifestyle. What are the strengths and weaknesses? What action steps do you need to take?
Evaluate the status of worship and prayer as your team lifestyle. What are the strengths and weaknesses? What action steps do you need to take?
Evaluate the status of worship and prayer of the broader coalition praying and serving to reach your focus group. What are the strengths and weaknesses? What action steps do you need to take?
Watch the second part of this video with Erwin Waelchli on fueling movements through fasting
What impact has fasting had in your personal walk with the Lord?
What impact has fasting had in the movements you know about?
Watch the third part of this video with Erwin Waelchli on fueling movements through Signs and Wonders.
What impact has the Natural/Supernatural had in the movements you know about?
How could you actively seek to introduce the Natural/Supernatural into your movement related work?
Watch this summary video of this session with Erwin Waelchli and see if God has anything else for you to hear.
Now do this Discovery Bible Study on Spiritual Warfare and discuss any changes you want to make in your catalyzation efforts.
Work through this powerpoint on Spiritual Warfare and look for any changes or new plans you need to make.
Spend time as a group praying about what God wants to do for your people through worship, prayer, fasting, signs and wonders.
Lesson 21 – The Five Phases of a Church Movement
The development of movements has happened throughout history.
Watch this video by Neill Mims and Derek Seipp on the 5 Phases of a Church Movement (developed by Neill Mims) to see some of the normal progression of a movement.
Watch this video on the Relevance of 5 Phases of a Church Movement
What are lessons we can learn from this to help us relate to the Institutional Church?
Discuss: What have you learned and how can you apply it?
Spend time praying for God to move in His church:
– revitalize the existing church
– call out believers to go into the harvest field
– expand movements into new harvest fields
Lesson 22 – Models of Church
The following videos talk about the different models of church. Recognizing which model(s) of church you come from and which model of church you are trying to catalyze are both very important as this will influence how you work and who you can/want to work with.
Watch this first video with Neill Mims
Discuss in your group
1. How have you experienced these various “models” of church?
2. Clarify for each other any questions about the various models and how each one has different requirements for:
— leadership
— training, discipling
— facilities
3. Take 5-6 minutes to draw your own “picture” of what model you want to pursue among your people group or place (as instructed in video).
4. Each person show their “model” and explain any differences from other model pictures.
Watch the second video on this topic with Neill Mims
Discuss:
1. Any ideas from the video or additional ideas you have about working with “models” of churches in various countries and “Your Country”.
2. Take 5-6 minutes to make/start a picture of the dynamics of churches, networks, denominations, in “Your country” (and people group and place).
3. Discuss each of your pictures and any ideas spurred in this exercise.
4. Take 3-4 minutes for everyone to write action steps of what they will need to do to cast vision and work toward a clearer “model” that may lead to movement in the people group or place you are working. How will you take steps to discuss this with key partners?
5. Discuss each person’s action steps – this may spur further ideas among others in the group.
Here is a lesson plan of how the video trainer presented this session to spark your own ideas and discussion among local co-laborers.
Lesson 23 – Tracking and reporting
Some people view these topics as unnecessary or overly focused on insignificant activities. But the healthiest movements use tracking, reporting and segmentation to diagnose health issues and plan for continuing outreach into new segments.
Mistakes and Lessons on Reporting
Work through and discuss this powerpoint on the Biblical Basis for Reporting.
Read and discuss this article on Why Measure in Apostolic Ministry?
Discuss this video on The Why of Reporting
Here are some of the group discussion conclusions on the “Why of Reporting“
Lesson 24 – Segmentation and Saturation
Discuss this video on Segmentation with Curtis Sergeant and how you can apply these concepts to your ministry.
Discuss this video on Saturation with Curtis Sergeant and how you can apply these concepts to your ministry.
Watch and discuss this video case study of Curtis Sergeant describing how these principles of segmentation and saturation were key aspects of their work in helping start a CPM on Hainan island back in the 1990’s.
25 – Leadership Development
Read and Discuss this article – A CPM is a Leadership Movement
Read and Discuss this article – Wise Counsel from a CPM Inside Leader
Leadership in movements with Kumar Pillai – Discuss his journey as a movement catalyst. What did you learn from him and how can you apply it?
The following set of videos with Nathan Shank describe 5 levels of leadership in a movement. This diagram shows you the 4 fields approach he is referencing in the video.
The Need for Leaders – Watch the following videos and then discuss your current framework for leadership development. What are you doing well as a team? What are your gaps? How will you address those gaps?
Level 1 Leaders – Seed Sowers with Nathan Shank
How are you developing Level 1 Leaders? What do you need to adjust?
Level 2 Leaders – Church Planters with Nathan Shank
How are you developing Level 2 Leaders? What do you need to adjust?
Level 3 Leaders – Church Planting Multipliers with Nathan Shank
How are you developing Level 3 Leaders? What do you need to adjust?
Level 4 Leaders – Movement Trainers with Nathan Shank
How are you developing Level 4 Leaders? What do you need to adjust?
Level 5 Leaders – Strategy Coordinators with Nathan Shank
Questions
How are you developing Level 5 Leaders? What do you need to adjust?
What is your plan for leadership development?
Other thoughts to discuss – view these videos and discuss:
How to Spend your Time in Developing Leaders with Nathan Shank
How to Spend your Funds in Developing Leaders with Nathan Shank
Lesson 26 – Access Ministries
Before we can share the good news with people, we must gain access to them. The very ways we gain access – meeting needs – is part of sharing the good News of Jesus.
There are many ways to do this: business people have access to their customers; teachers have access to students and their families; meeting humanitarian needs provides good access to both those being helped; God’s miracles can often provide access to people and communities previously closed or uninterested in the gospel.
In many places in the world today, if we don’t have a good reason to enter a community, the community will be suspicious toward the church planter and will reject them and in some places may even imprison or physically attack the church planter.
Depending on the stage of work you are in, you may already be heavily involved in access ministries. Re-examine your efforts and assumptions are you work through these videos below.
Look at these Scripture passages to examine multiple ways God created access for His servants in the Bible.
In this video, Shodankeh Johnson explains how they use Access Ministry in their movement work in Africa.
This Final Command video has Younoussa Djao, Shodankeh Johnson, Aychi Beyene, David Broodryk, Aila Tasse and other African movement leaders going more in-depth on the principles and practicalities of access ministry.
Questions
What are key principles you need to keep in mind for access ministries?
What are pitfalls of access ministries in general and certain access ministries specifically and how have or will you avoid them?
Read and discuss this article about Sustaining Kingdom Advance which examines avoiding the wrong kind of access ministry.
View this short Video from Victor John and the ASSI team about the Bhojpuri Movement’s Community Learning Centers (Lesson 15), and then read through and discuss their overview document below.
ASSI Community Learning Centers Overview document
Lesson 27 – Women in Movements
The majority of stories about Church Planting Movements profile men. However, women play key roles in both starting and sustaining church planting movements. In some movements more than half of the church leaders are women.
Recognizing how to serve and empower women in movements is important for all outside catalysts, whether you are a man or a woman.
Work through this Biblical Overview of Women in Ministry by Joy Steinhaus
Now discuss the Research on Roles of Women in CPM also by Joy Steinhaus
Now watch and discuss this video on Women in Movements with Rhonda
You can follow along in Rhonda’s powerpoint if it will be useful.
Rhonda has written some advice that is primarily for women serving as outside catalysts.
Advice for Women on Engagement in Church Planting Movements – Summary – this is the shorter version.
This is the longer version – Advice for Women on Engagement in Church Planting Movements – Article
The following link is to an edition of Mission Frontiers – Women Engaged in CPMs. These are articles written by women who are serving as outside catalysts.
Lesson 28 – Movements starting Movements
Of the 1400+ Church Planting Movements in the world, an estimated 80% or more were started by other movements. As one catalyst in the Middle East said, “This changes everything!” The following videos discuss this dynamic globally and then from the perspective of both an inside movement catalyst (Victor John) and an outside movement catalyst (Kevin Greeson).
Movements starting Movements in the World Today with Stan Parks
Movements starting Movements with Victor John
Here is the powerpoint Victor uses.
Movements Starting Movements with Kevin Greeson
Given this reality, a new role has emerged. Rather than only being focused on catalyzing a new movement from the start, some have recognized that perhaps serving a movement to start more movements could be more strategic for their own involvement. Read this article on “Movement Servants Needed” by Dave Coles and Stan Parks and consider and discuss and pray about this as a group.
Now watch this video on Implications of Movements starting Movements
Watch this short video from a couple who have taken the role of serving an existing movement family.
Movement Servants
Lesson 29 – Case Study of a Family of Movements Starting Other CPMs
The following is an in-depth look at a family of movements that at the time the video was recorded had impacted 65 UPGs in their own country and multiple other UPGs in 19 other countries. Benny is one of the key inside catalysts of this family.
This module can accomplish several purposes:
1. Remind us that 80+% of movements are started by existing movements and help us consider how that might change our strategies and efforts.
2. How can you work now to help local leaders become “Outside Catalysts” to other UPGs and Places?
3. Use this a vision casting tool to show local brothers and sisters to help them catch the vision and solidify the steps to take to start outreach to other UPGs and Places.
4. Give you encouragement and use as a “case study” to see how a “Local Leader” who was trained/mentored/coached by one Outside Catalyst, is now a movement leader now impacting other people groups with a similar strategy.
Stages and Leadership Development with Benny
Watch and pause the video as often as you like to discuss what you have heard and apply it to your situation(s). Especially pause to discuss the questions at the end.
Take time for each person to quietly pray over any steps they listed that they need to take. Listen to the Lord, and add any other steps God would have each person take in the next weeks and months to help consider how you can “set the DNA” now, and take steps at the right times to help their People or Place start movements among other UPGs and Places.
Watch and pause this second video as often as you like to discuss what you have heard and apply it to your situation(s).
Factors Supporting Movement Multiplication with Benny
What elements of this will you take to your local partners now to discuss in “setting the DNA” for the future? How can you work to send harvesters to other peoples and places?
Pray together as a group and discuss any action steps you need to take.
Lesson 30 – Crisis Response
This module is to help you ask God and your local partners how best you can strategically and “sustainably” respond to a disaster, crisis, or open door among a very needy people group or place. Remember the goal is not only to help those in need — but how do we respond in a way that builds the Kingdom of God and either furthers a movement already happening, or can open the doors to find “Persons of Peace” to start new groups, churches, movement(s).
The same family of movements that Benny described is also served by Trevor who is the key outside catalyst God used to help start this movement family. The country they live in has had quite a few severe crises, and God has used these crises to open doors to the gospel.
Beginning with the End in Mind with Trevor
Strategic Crisis Response – Sustainable Recovery with Trevor
Responding to a Crisis or Disaster well is going to be a LOT OF WORK and involve many steps.
- Are we ready? How do we get ready to implement these principles and steps well?
- With your team, take some time to start writing a plan of first steps you will take to think of the right partners, resources, steps you need to take if you are to strategically respond to a disaster. If you have already done this type of planning, then work on improving your plan(s).
- What are the next steps you need to take to strategically respond NOW or WHEN NEEDED in crisis/disaster?
Lesson 31 – Questions and Answers
A question and answer session with Bill Smith, Curtis Sergeant, Laura Smith, Neil Mims and Stan Parks was part of the wrap-up of the original Outside Catalyst training in 2020 that formed the initial core of this online training.
| Here are the main questions and points with the approximate time they appear in the video. 0:17 What is the total number of people in movements globally? 0:51 What is the difference between pity and compassion? 2:05 How should we use money in movements? 7:50 Raising money for missions and movements 9:00 Why use the term Outside Catalyst? 11:00 How can we handle relational capacities? 14:20 How can we give appropriate bandwidth to all the needs? 17:27 Can someone else do it? 17:55 How can we serve Movements starting other Movements? 21:20 Coaching Checklists 22:30 Why are large Movements invisible? 29:20 Why are we surprised God is doing mighty works? 29:50 Are there some compassion ministries better than others? 31:25 Compassion ministry in Eurasia through sports 35:30 What has to change to go from living inside to catalyzing from the outside? 39:35 Don’t put Jesus aside in your strategy 39:50 Start your strategy with Jesus and His life |
Lesson 32 – Next Steps
As we close this training, watch this video for some examples of “Next Steps”
Now review this powerpoint on “A practical evaluation on how to begin the next 30 days“
Spend time praying together and then working together on your next steps.