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Sometimes we get so caught up in the power of Jesus shouting from the cross, "It is finished!" that we forget that Jesus started something. What Jesus started was a movement that began small, with intimate conversations designed to build disciples into apostles who would go out in the world and seed it with God's kingdom vision. That movement grew rapidly and spread wide as people recognized the truth in it and gave theirlives to the power of it. That movement is still happening today, and we are called to play our part in it.



Steve Addison (DMin, Fuller Theological Seminary) has a calling to fuel movements that multiply disciples and churches—everywhere. He and his wife Michelle lead MOVE, an Australia-based mission agency dedicated to making disciples and multiplyingchurches around the world. Steve began his research into Christian movements in the late 1980s while serving as a church planter in Melbourne, Australia, and he is the author of Movements That Change the World: Five Keys to Spreading the Gospel and What Jesus Started: Joining the Movement, Changing the World.



Foreward by Ed Stetzer

Acknowledgements

In the Beginning Was Jesus



Part One: What Jesus Began

1. Why Jesus Came

2. Let's Go Somewhere Else

3. Jesus' Gospel

4. Follow Me and I'll Teach You

5. I Will Build My Church

6. Time to Go



Interlude: Church on the Porch





Part Two: What Jesus Continued to Do: The Twelve and the Early Church

7. Acts of the Risen Lord

8. Missionaries Without Borders

9. Eyewitness News

10. Obedience School

11. Life in the First Church

12. From Jerusalem to the World



Interlude: Ying Kai and the Power of Multipulcation



Part Three: What Jesus Continuedto Do: Paul and His Team

13. Finally He Gets It!

14. Any Way He Can

15. One Gospel

16. The Obedience of Faith

17. When You Come Together

18. Nothing Left to Do



Interlude: Julius Ebwongu Shifts the Paradigm



Part Four: What Is Jesus Doing Today

19. Seeing the End

20. Connecting with People

21. Sharing the Gospel

22. Training Disciples

23. Gathering Communities

24. Multiplying Workers

25. Starting Somewhere



Implementation Guide

Notes

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