3.3: The Mass Movement Jesus Started (One Page Version)

1. The movement Jesus started was divinely ordained in the throne of God.

Daniel 2:44-45, Psalms 22:27, Isaiah 9:7, Habakkuk 2:14, Malachi 1:11

2. Field 1: Ploughing: Jesus was baptised, filled with the Holy Spirit and died to himself and the world.

Luke 3:21-22, Luke 4:1-13

3. Fields 2: Sowing: Jesus then started his mass movement through preaching, miracles and teaching.

Luke 4:14-36

4. Field 3: Growing: He won many followers in the earliest of days.

Luke 4:42-44 Luke 5:1-11

5. Field 3: Growing: Field From these followers he chose 12 men for intensive leadership training.

Luke 6: 12-16

6. Field 3: Growing: They lived with, watched and leant from their master.

Luke 8:1

7. Opposition then quickly raised its ugly head.

Luke 5:33-6:11

8. He taught them to look for 4th soil people when preaching the Kingdom.

Luke 8:1-16

9. Field 3: Growing: Then he sent them out to practice what they had seen him do.

Luke 9:1-6

10. Field 4: Harvest: The whole of Galilee was shaken by this first wave of evangelism.

Luke 9:7-9

11. Pride came soon after.

Luke 9:46-62

12. Field 4: Harvest: Jesus then trained 70 others to expand his mass movement even further.

Luke 10:1-24

13. Field 4: Harvest: These 70 were specifically instructed to look for the next generation of leaders.

Luke 10:52 Timothy 2:2

14. Field 4: Harvest: The result was a mass movement into the kingdom before Jesus went to the cross.

John 11:45-48