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Leaders following Jesus in building disciplemaking movements

Introduction

Join leadership peers to explore a disciplemaking framework centred on a case study of Jesus' ministry focusing on His movement building principles. Shift groups are coordinated by trained facilitators who will help you wrestle with the realities of implementing what you discover about movement building in your own life and ministry context.

This is not an effort to prescribe a 'model' of doing ministry that you can take and plant over your old style. SHIFTm2M is a journey to discover the foundation of what Christ is calling leaders to be and what efforts He asks leaders to build into as His followers. Centred around the gospels, SHIFTm2M Groups are times of study, training, discussion, and evaluation.

There are nine days of content usually split over four retreats or once a month for 9 months. There is preparation to do before each retreat. This is primarily working through Knowing Him, a 50 day chronological study through the life of Christ. This is facilitated using a Harmony of the Gospels which presents Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in parallel with events in the life of Christ presented in chronological order. Each study is supplemented by a podcast and most days have a video shot on location in Israel unpacking more about geography and historical context. It's on this foundation of a slow, thorough, and fascinating study through the gospels that your facilitator will help you unpack Jesus' disciple-making movement principles and apply them to your ministry context.

What’s included in Shift?

During SHIFTm2M, you’ll study movement building principles from the life of Christ which have been used by thousands of leaders globally.

· 50 day self-guided chronological study through the life of Christ with supplemental podcasts and videos shot on location in Israel.

· Typically 9 days of face-to-face retreat time with other Christian leaders to explore Jesus’ disciplemaking movement principles and how they apply in your context.

· First option to participate in the biennial SHIFTm2M Israel Study Tour - 12 days following the life of Christ chronologically around the Holy Land.

· Option to gain academic credit for your SHIFTm2M study through ACOM as part of one of their Diploma, Bachelor, Graduate Certificate, or Masters programs.

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What People Say

We exist to equip and send people to connect communities with Jesus.

Melissa

Church Leader | The Salvation Army

SHIFTm2M has given us tools to help people move in an intentional discipleship pathway from an unbeliever to committed Christian who makes disciples. The principles have been proven to work and have been the foundation of our ministry strategy.

Brett

Rector

The training I received from SHIFTm2M is a better understanding of the life and ministry of Jesus… applying these principles to the church today helps to put ‘meat on the bones’ of my theological training for mission and ministry.

Brett

Rector

One of the great joys of ministry is the experience of witnessing people have an epiphany of the plans and purpose of God for them and the church. The SHIFTm2M training provides an epiphany, it is providing an opportunity to look deeper into the life and ministry of Jesus so that we might better engage in the mission of God - compelled by the Spirit and living Word of God. All who attended the SHIFTm2M training left excited at the journey of discovery begun!

Craig

Anglican Church

We’ve found the framework and tools of SHIFTm2M incredibly helpful in making disciples and engaging in mission throughout the Plenty Valley. Bill is an engaging communicator who has a deep knowledge of the life and ministry of Jesus and a keen insight into principles of mission and discipleship for churches today.

Garry

Senior Pastor

SHIFTm2M has provided our Leadership a sound and workable method to review and transform our identity as a church using the arrow. We have recently taken our staff and leadership through the Shift process and created new vision and a primary pathway for ministry. This has meant that rather than following my vision as senior pastor, leaders have identified strengths and weaknesses and developed their own corporate vision together with staff which is now being both endorsed and followed through by the wider church community.

John

SHIFTm2M has transformed our ministry. After going through SHIFTm2M four years ago we changed 85% of our ministry activity. We refocused our efforts away from what we could do in evangelism and put our energy into what we could develop other people to do in evangelism. Now we are seeing a disciplemaking movement spreading through churches in Australia and around the world.

Sam

Senior Pastor

Participating in SHIFTm2M totally changed our team's perspective on Ministry. It took our eyes of programs alone, to a framework that’s been used successfully from youth to women’s ministries, and today forms the foundations of our discipleship pathway in a larger, multi-site church. SHIFTm2M works for us not because it’s some “clever strategy,” but because it’s simply Jesus’ strategy for making disciples who make disciples. If you have a passion for impacting the world through others, for Jesus - Shift is a must do experience for you.

Phil

Senior Minister

SHIFTm2M has helped to clarify our church’s discipleship strategy. Discovering Jesus’ intentionality to make disciples throughout the gospels has provided incredibly helpful insights for those in church leadership. The materials are challenging, yet empowering, and focus on the next step in making disciples. I’d love to see this being taught and implemented in churches across Australia as it is a brilliant tool.

Geoff

State Director

There are lots of books on the gospels, on discipleship, and on ministry models, but SHIFTm2M puts it together in a simple framework that, combined with the creativity sparked from engaging with Jesus’ life as recorded in the gospels, leaders can develop immediate action plans to align everyone to.

Simon

SHIFTm2M gave me an absolutely new insight into the life of Christ. It helped me develop a clearer picture in my mind about the reason for the church existing. Shift gives us practical steps we can use to help churches leaders in Switzerland and Western Europe transform their mindset from a static, self-focused church to a disciplemaking movement of multiplication.

Rebecca

The Salvation Army

SHIFTm2M has changed my life and the lives of those around me! More people know about Jesus in my life because I learned more about Jesus’ life and ministry. I am more relational, intentional and Spirit-led with a better understanding of Jesus’ process of creating multiplying disciplemaking movements and the practical tools needed along the way. Gold!

Andrew

CCCVaT Ministries

We have made SHIFTm2M one of two practical core trainings for our Emerging Leaders program because our aim is to have leaders equipped in ministry to ‘think’ movements, to ‘live’ as disciple-makers, and ‘be’ Kingdom minded. SHIFTm2M helps us achieve this through studying the priorities of Jesus as the model movement builder, with a high degree of application through facilitation and coaching, to implement their ‘primary pathway’ for disciple-making into their ministry context.

Randall

The Salvation Army

Eighty Salvo leaders have been through the SHIFTm2M process over the past six years and the overwhelming feedback has been a clearer focus on intentional disciple-making amongst the competing pressures of ministry. They give strong testimony to its effectiveness in their leadership team focus, as well as their own personal disciple-making confidence, and this is also my experience.

Susanne

The Salvation Army

I have found SHIFTM2M useful because it gathers together like-minded people who are wanting to build disciples. It helps people to build on the relationships they have with others and to encourage others to grow in Christ but to also build disciples!

Leigh

Seventh-day Adventist Church

SHIFTm2M provides ministry leaders with a disciplemaking framework that is modelled on the life and ministry of Jesus. I found this training both inspirational and practical in multiplying disciple making across the Adventist Church in Australia, New Zealand, PNG, and the Pacific Island nations.

Dorothy

Generation Minister (Associate)

SHIFTm2M has had a major impact on how I do ministry. It is transforming our approach to disciplemaking. Importantly, it has been one of the most personally significant spiritual discipleship experiences of my faith journey. I have a deeper appreciation for who Jesus is and a new revelation of how intentional He was in building the ministry into a multiplying movement of disciplemakers. Our entire church is being blessed by this course and I cannot recommend it more highly.

Andrew

Senior Pastor

For too long the church has been caught up with the pursuit of trends and tactics. Some have been helpful and others more distractions, but few have been targeted on faithful and fruitful adherence to the actual commission Jesus left His church. SHIFTm2M is a biblically based model for evangelism, discipleship, and leadership development. It is liberating, invitational, and allows ample scope for contextualisation in various cultures and contexts. It has ample evidence, proven over decades, of bringing focus to the core purpose of the church. Mitcham Baptist Church has adopted the SHIFTm2M principles and training and is committed to seeing its fruit develop locally and cross-culturally.

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SHIFTm2M 1 day Workshop Cru Pacific

Welcome to the online content for the 1 day SHIFT m2M Workshop.

Shift m2M is an initiative of Power to Change in partnership with Christian leaders who share the vision of seeing communities that follow Jesus transformed into movement of multiplying disciplemakers growing around Australia and beyond.

This one-day workshop provides an introduction to some of the key Shift m2M concepts that are used in the Shift 9-day course and gives an orientation to the framework.

Key Learning Objectives

Jesus is fully God and fully man.
Jesus did not dip into His divinity to live out his humanity.
Jesus is our model for life and ministry.
We underestimate what Jesus wants to do through us.
You can turn your ministry into a spiritual movement by creating a pathway for people in your sphere of influence to move from being a non-Christian to being a disciplemaker.

If you would like to attend or run a 1 day Power to Change SHIFTm2M Workshop - please contact us via our contact page.

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