OUR HEARTBEAT

"To leave a Legacy Of A Movement; Not A Monument."

Five Cries Of The Church

  • Too many programmes
  • Too few volunteers
  • The leadership vision is not clear
  • The leaders are not united
  • The members are not spiritually fed

The Critical need Today

The critical need of the Church today is for spiritual depth and authenticity. It has been rightly lamented that although we have the largest Church in history, we also have the shallowest! Doing supersedes being. Goals supersede growth. Accomplishment supersedes authenticity.

Many local churches include the terms “making disciples” or “disciple-making” in their mission statements. However, few go beyond mere rhetoric to actually engage in international disciple-making. Fewer still have an established track record of reproducing disciples of spiritual depth and maturity.

Real spiritual depth can only come about when we return to the biblical blueprint of authentic discipleship and intentional disciple-making in the local church!

We thank God for strong, vibrant churches. However, for every strong church, there exists many weak and struggling churches. Something must be done about this!

Let’s join hands and work together!

The Challenge Before Us

The complacency is staggering… The modern church is struggling to reproduce disciples of spiritual depth, yet too little is being done about it. This is a critical concern.

Studies have identified three critical concerns:

1. Many church leaders fail to assess the spiritual health of their congregation.

2. Many church goers and church leaders struggle to articulate a biblical understanding of spiritual maturity. This is crippling to true discipleship.

3. Many church leaders want to guide their congregation towards spiritual wholeness, but few are clear and intentional about the processes and their outcome.

Intentionality: The Missing Ingredient

A senior pastor of a mega-church once commented, “We have disciplemaking in our church. But one thing is missing. Our disciplemaking is not intentional.”

He echoes the exact sentiment of many pastors: “We need to be more intentional.” Intentionality is needed to build a people of depth. It doesn’t just happen!

Our Philosophy Of Disciplemaking

The compelling question is: “What kind of disciples does God call us to reproduce?” (Remember the power of questions!)

Our philosophy of disciplemaking is summed up in the words “A Certain Kind”:

It’s all about a certain kind of person, radically committed to a certain kind of purpose, who through a certain kind of process, reproduces a certain kind of product.

It is time we re-examine our assumptions and disciple our congregation to grow spiritually through a biblical discipleship from the inside out!

Our Four Biblical Core Convictions

The biblical key to church growth and church health is biblical discipleship. The impetus for such a discipleship is anchored upon four biblical convictions:

Jesus Christ is coming again soon.

Revelation 22:20

The urgent task is world evangelisation.

Mark 13:10

The key to evangelisation is
intentional disciplemaking.

Matthew 28:18-20

At the heart of intentional disciplemaking is authentic, biblical discipleship to Jesus Christ

Matthew 4:19

Five Aims Of Global Alliance IDMC

Our strategy is to seek and promote the most effective disciplemaking vehicles in the world today. We look for and recommend best practices for disciplemaking in the local church to the Body of Christ at large.

Championing Christ-Centred Discipleship

A Faith Worth Having

Understanding the heart of the Gospel

A Master Worth Following

Understanding the heart of Jesus

A Cause Worth Pursuing

Understanding the Cross and Missions

A Life Worth Living

Understanding our Kingdom Destiny in God

Restoring Catalytic Leadership

To champion the Vision while personifying the Values

To master the Success while mentoring the Successors

To expand the Ministry while enlarging the Soul

Optimising Consecrated Stewardship

Cultivating a network of shared resources

Cultivating excellence through best practices

Deepening Covenental Relationships

Developing a friendship network of kindred spirits

Promoting mutual learning and support

Leveraging Creative Partnerships

Encouraging broad-based disciplemaking through different models

Advancing Kingdom agendas together through joint efforts

Promises

God’s Word and Promises for this Disciplemaking Movement

GOD’S WORD AND PROMISES FOR THIS DISCIPLEMAKING MOVEMENT

I dare not lead without the promises of God. Over the years, the Lord has given me His precious and magnificent promises (2 Pet 1:4) for life and ministry. Some of these promises apply both to my pastoral leadership in Covenant EFC as well as to the IDMC Global Alliance.

There are many but let me just list ten biblical encouragements:

FAITH FOR A “NUMBERLESS” LEGACY (ROM 4:18–21)
“In hope against hope he believed, so that he might become a father of many nations according to that which had been spoken, so (numberless) shall your descendants be.”
A GREAT FUTURE (JOB 8:7)
“Though your beginning was insignificant, yet your end will increase greatly.”
DISCIPLE THE NATIONS (ISA 54:3)
“For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left. And your descendants will possess nations and will resettle the desolate cities.”
PREPARE FOR REVIVAL (2 KI 3:16–17)
“...Thus says the Lord, ‘Make this valley full of trenches.’ For thus says the Lord, ‘You shall not see wind nor shall you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water...”
TAKE BOLD DECISIVE ACTION
(MATT 9:29)
“...It shall be done to you according to your faith.”
SPARE NO EFFORT (ISA 54:2)
“Enlarge the place of your tent; Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not; Lengthen your cords and strengthen your pegs.”
IN A LITTLE WHILE (ISA 29:17)
“Is it not yet just a little while before Lebanon will be turned into a fertile field, and the fertile field will be considered as a forest?”
TAKE COURAGE FOR GOD IS WITH YOU (HAG 2:4)
“But now take courage... take courage... take courage,' declares the Lord, 'and work; for I am with you...'”
EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED (ISA 64:3)
“When You did awesome things which we did not expect...”
PRAYER IS THE KEY (ISA 62:6–7)
“On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; all day and all night they will never keep silent. You who remind the Lord, take no rest for yourselves; And give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.”
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Our Guiding Principles

  1. Think big. Start small. Build deep.
  2. Kindred-spirit friendship is the key to a unity movement.
  3. The Kingdom of God is larger than our own local church.
  4. The church rises and falls based on its leadership.
  5. Size does not measure health.
  6. Disciplemaking is the key to the long-term health of the Church. There is no success without successors.
  7. Life-change happens best in small groups.
  8. A church that does not reach out will rust out.
  9. Spiritual transformation precedes spiritual multiplication.
  10. Spiritual growth takes time.
  11. We reproduce after our own kind.

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