Co-Ed Discipleship Groups
Ordinary Movement provides tangible tools and resources to equip others to make disciples and impact their sphere of influence for Christ.
As groups embark on this journey in OMVT, we know that they will draw closer to the Lord, grow meaningful relationships with others, and experience renewed vigor in their walk with Jesus for the purpose of seeing His calling fulfilled in their lives. Intimacy with Jesus births passion, which fuels our faith to make disciples. We encourage groups to take ownership of their faith and become contributors, not just consumers, as they make disciples. Our model of discipleship was birthed from a group that wanted to be challenged in their faith and grow in living out these values. From the very beginning, our groups have been about high challenge and high grace.
We address the big question of how to resource those that you disciple to be disciple-makers themselves. We do this through our platform in the context of small groups by utilizing an easy-to-follow system created by and for ordinary people.
We are individual groups of Ordinary Men & Women.
Together we form a much larger group that is focused on allowing the Lord to work in our lives to advance His Kingdom and Church through discipleship.
Our core values:
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We prioritize our relationship with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, knowing that our identity can only be found through intimacy with Him. Everything in our Christian walk flows from our time spent with the Lord. We long to grow in intimacy with Jesus, making our faith personal. Intimacy with Jesus births passion that fuels our faith.
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Instead of individualism and isolation, we commit to sacrificing our time and schedules to invest in others, building intentional relationships anchored in the Lord. We do what we say, we make time for others, and we maintain teachable hearts. We understand that our lives matter because other’s lives depend on us.
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We commit to being disciples who make disciples, focused on putting our faith into action. We act out of calling from a place of intimacy and passion produced in time spent with God. First we sit and listen, then we go and do. While Ordinary Movement groups are designed to strengthen and empower the believer, we do not exist to create a “holy huddle.” On the contrary, OMVT believes that as each participant becomes fully alive in their individual walk with Christ, from this place of intimacy they will be empowered to reach others around them who are lost. So while multiplication within Ordinary Movement groups will be specific to believers participating in intentional discipleship, the result will, and must be, a spreading of the Gospel among the communities in which we live and the people with whom we interact daily. The ultimate goal is that each participant will bring new believers into the OMVT process and teach them to be disciples who make disciples.
Acts 4:13 says, “When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.”
We believe that discipleship is more caught than taught. With this in mind we model discipleship within a high challenge, high grace environment. This model is highly reproducible over many generations, and creates a clear path for multiplication of new groups.