WHAT IS mDNA?
Jesus-Movements have historically changed the world because they have transformative energy and have a catalytic impact on society.
Jesus-Movements have historically changed the world because they have transformative energy and have a catalytic impact on society. Movements influence society on every level because they initiate social, spiritual, and systemic change and spark imagination and innovation.
The Church has gradually become more like an institution than a movement and is rarely the world-changing, transformative movement Jesus intended. We need to recapture and reimagine the Church as a Jesus-Movement, understanding and applying movement thinking at every level of our leadership and organizations.
Every Jesus movement is comprised of six elements of Movement DNA (mDNA).
Jesus is Lord
Discipleship + Disciple-Making
Missional-Incarnational Impulse
APEST
Organic Systems
Liminality + Communitas
Why Movements?
Movement thinking helps us return to our original design and to exist as a Jesus movement across the globe.
Alan Hirsch, Rich Robinson, and the MLC team believe recovering movement dynamics is vital for this moment, and we must rediscover how to do it together.
We dream of a church fully equipped, fully mature, fully mobilized, and fully alive. A church that lives and breathes the Good News of Jesus!
A Church that pursues Jesus
A Church that is good news
A Church that multiplies
A Church that makes disciples
A Church that mobilizes everyone