This is the 2nd part of a 2-part series discussing the “Generational Dynamics & Challenges” article that Steve Smith & Stan Parks wrote.

Stan Parks & Steve Smith, experienced CPM catalysts, put together a very important document called “Generational Dynamics & Challenges” that help CPM practitioners at various stages learn what to focus on & what challenges they’ll likely face.

Dr. Stan Parks, an experienced movement catalyst, joined us a number of months ago in our DMM Ongoing Coaching meeting and shared several key elements in movements.

Exciting news! Our 3rd course is being released today at TentmakingPastors.com. It's called Flip Hacking!

I’m excited to announce launch of our new House Hacking course today! This is the 2nd course that we’ve released at TentmakingPastors.com. You can check out the previous blog post here for an overview of the other courses we’ve released & the ones we’re planning for the future.

I’m super excited to tell you about the launch of TentmakingPastors.com today, a project that I’ve been working on for a few months. Do you have a few minutes for the back story?

You are probably reading this because you heard we’re moving to DFW (Dallas Fort Worth in Texas) & you’re curious to hear the story of how God led us to this point. Well, I’m glad you’re here. It’s been an exciting journey!

Mission Frontiers is a magazine dedicated to fostering and supporting a global movement to establish indigenous and self-reproducing Church Planting Movements among the 7,000+ unreached people groups of the world.

In March of 2020, I was invited to give a series of talks at the Multiply DMM Summit in Chicago. Unfortunately, due to coronavirus, the event was canceled. We were able to capture the first plenary on video and I wanted to share it with you here.

It’s probably not an overstatement to say that the coronavirus has rattled the American church. Pastors around the country are asking questions they probably never expected to be asking a few months ago.

The fifth and final way I want to discuss that the Holy Spirit might lead a church to be involved with DMM is through relaunching as a network of DMM churches. When I say final way, I only mean it’s the final way I’m going to discuss. I’m sure there are many other ways the Holy Spirit might lead a church to be involved, but these are the 5 that I’ve come to understand. I’ll trust the Holy Spirit to guide you and your church into exactly what he wants you to do.

The fourth way the Holy Spirit might lead a church to be involved with DMM is through a “transition” to a singular DMM focus. Instead of having two visions you’re running alongside one another, like with “hybrid,” you decide to make DMM the primary vision. While you may continue to do many of the things you’ve done before, like weekend services, you leverage everything in the church to help accomplish the primary vision of catalyzing a movement in your city/region.

The third way the Holy Spirit might lead a church to be involved with DMM is through a hybrid approach. One of my friends and mentors, Roy Moran, wrote a whole book on this topic called Spent Matches. I highly recommend you buy and read it. It’s fantastic!

My guess is that after reading the Bless post, you probably want to do more. You know you can bless & pray for movement work in your city but you’re wondering if there’s a more significant way your church can be involved. That leads us to a second way your church can be involved with DMM.

The first way the Holy Spirit might lead a church to be involved with DMM is to pray for it and BLESS it when it begins to make an impact in your city. This path doesn’t require any kind of church-wide commitment to embrace DMM. This is simply understanding and supporting DMM in your area and not resisting it.

Since the release of our book, From Megachurch to Multiplication, we’ve had the privilege of training hundreds of pastors from across the country, and even some from around the world. One thing I constantly see pastors wrestling with is how to implement DMM in their churches.

Just as Jesus sent out people two by two (Luke 10:1), we try to send teams of two out among the lost aiming to make disciples.

Recently, many of our DMM Churches have been focusing their going out among the lost efforts on the county jail. Some had been working primarily in low-income areas & others had been visiting the sick, but the results out at the jail have been so outstanding that they couldn’t help but take notice. Then we found out that the team in the jail really needed more workers, so we all wanted to go where it was clear to us that God was already working.

Ongoing Coaching is one of the 7 elements in “raising the sails” for movement and it is vitally important! Without my regular coaching meetings with Stan and other indirect coaching I’ve received through books, podcasts, articles, videos, and conversations with DMM practitioners, I don’t think we’d be where we are today. Since “movements” are a foreign concept to many of us in the American church, and since most of us have never been a part of one, we need a lot of coaching in our pursuit of movement or else we won’t know what direction to aim.

The way we encourage people to Focus on God’s Word is through a 7-Question DBS Process of reading, obeying, and sharing the Bible. The question sometimes comes up, “Why these 7 questions?” This is often asked by folks who may not want to use the questions or may want to change them up and ask their own questions. They often don’t understand why using these 7 questions is so important, so I want to discuss that here.