by Rebecca Lewis

All movements to Christ are amazing works of God! But not all movements are the same. How Is an “Insider Movement” different from other movements to Christ? Three distinct types of movements to Christ among unreached peoples have been described in the last century: “insider movements,” “people movements,” and “church planting movements.”

Insider movements can be defined as movements to obedient faith in Christ that remain integrated with or inside their natural community. In any insider movement there are two distinct elements:

1. The gospel takes root within pre-existing communities or social networks, which become the main expression of “church” in that context. Believers are not gathered from diverse social networks to create a “church.” New parallel social structures are not invented or introduced.

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by Danny Lehmann

From the beginning, missionaries have sought to obey Christ’s Great Commission by seeking to make disciples by the means of “teaching them to obey all I have commanded you” (Matt. 28:19). Jesus taught that his primary commandments were to love God and our neighbor (Matt. 22:37-39) so consequently missionaries have always sought to obey both the Great Commission and the Great Commandment.

Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live forever, and this must be true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only 70 years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live forever.
-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (Page 159)

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