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Jesus Movements: The Way People Groups Come to Jesus
In most FPGs, people believe following Jesus means betraying their family to join a different “Christian” people group. When early believers leave their people group, they hinder God’s blessing from spreading among them. But in God’s Word we see Jesus pours out love on His followers everywhere, sending them back into their Samaritan or Gentile communities, to bring blessings and peace to those there (Jn. 4; Mk. 5:1-20).
In the book of Acts, the Spirit of God spread the Good News of Jesus’ resurrection and forgiveness of sins rapidly from household to household–even without printed scriptures, church buildings or salaried preachers (Acts 6:7, 9:31, 12:24, 16:5).
Movements in Acts were the way that faith in Jesus grew faster than the population, among the Jews, Samaritans and Gentile peoples. When God’s Spirit sparks movements to Jesus, they transform existing communities and people groups by bringing God’s blessings into families.
Why are movements necessary?
No people group in history has ever become identified with Jesus without an indigenous movement to Him taking place. Each generation of believers will die out if there is no movement to faith. And, Frontier People Groups have never had a growing indigenous movement, even if they have had many witnesses come to tell them about Jesus for centuries.
In places like China, over 100 years of witness happened before the people realized that the Creator God is their God too, and that Jesus also frees them from sin and death. Believing widows in China and Korea spread the Good News quickly from town to town. Now over 10% of the Chinese people, and 30% of the Koreans, are committed to Jesus. Frontier People Groups tend to believe that Jesus is only for foreign Christians and drive away those who follow Him. But once they see households among their own group become believers, and
households of faith experience and tell of healings and blessings from Jesus, the people group begins to understand Jesus is the Savior of the whole world, including themselves (Jn. 4:42).
We long for God’s Kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven! So let us pray persistently for rapidly spreading Jesus movements to bring God’s promised blessing to the families of the earth. Pray especially for those people groups who have not yet had any movement to Jesus
–the Frontier People Groups.
Sources on discipling through movements:
tam.oms.training
zume.training
peopleofyes.com
moredisciples.com
obedience.life/resources
Video example of how Jesus Movements can work: