Topic #3: Lost to Leader Roadmap and Our 3 + 1 Focus
The Lost to Leader Roadmap is a disciple-making pathway that can lead to church multiplication. This Roadmap serves as a framework to guide the ministry efforts of each Church Movements staff member. The roadmap helps us know “where we are”, “where we want to go” and “how to get there” as we seek to make and multiply disciples.
The Roadmap, in this annotated format, outlines the process, anticipated results, and the resources and tools available to the Church Movements staff and partners to support their efforts in building disciple-making movements.
The majority of Church Movements staff members have the position title of “Partnering Church Catalyst.” In this role CM staff members partner with members of local churches to encourage and equip them to pursue the process of making disciples – moving people from being lost to becoming multiplying leaders. And though Partnering Church Catalysts are usually not seeking to plant a new church, they do work to see new missional communities (small groups) form.
Some Church Movements staff members have the position title of “Partnering Church Planter.” In this role CM staff seek to partner with denominations or church-planting organizations to plant new churches, encouraging and equipping believers to pursue the same process of moving people from being lost to becoming multiplying leaders who will go on to plant churches.
Our 3+1 Focus
The “3 + 1” Focus diagram illustrates the THREE audiences we are focusing on and the ONE metric we seek as an ultimate outcome. As CM staff and ministers of the Gospel, we focus on three audiences:
- The Lost – We connect those far from God to Jesus
- The CoJourners – We help every follower of Jesus normalize sharing the Gospel and making disciples
- The Mobilizers – We partner with pastors, missional leaders and church-planters
Our 1 metric: Multiply – we increase capacity and confidence to multiply missional communities within churches and church-planting movements.
We focus on multiplying new missional groups within churches and church-planting movements. We help develop leaders from the harvest, to take the church into the frontiers of the harvest. Our contribution to these efforts is in partnering to bring good & effective evangelism tools and strategies broadly to the Body of Christ and in training missional leaders for a process of multiplying discipleship. We accomplish this as coaches who are developing increasing streams of influence and as practitioners who have a local, personal ministry.