Book book introduction summary for those who like stories, and those who like theory/ models, for church planting/ DMLs. Brief annotation and priority list.
See also https://2414now.net/all-the-movement-books/. And the impressive hartmanCriticismsDMM2025.pdf and hartmanCPMDMMBibliographydocx2025.pdf. For a complementary list organized by topical category rather than reader type, see 2026-06-03 Annotated Bibliography on Church Planting and Disciple-Making Movements.
This is basically an annotated bibliography for CPM/DMM but broken down by categories of readers…
For Story Based Introductions
If you’re not a big reader but want to consider the concepts through short stories…
- Venal Dogmata, Jeff Christopherson and Alan Hirsch
- Going to Church in the First Century, Robert Banks
Essential Conceptual Framework
- In the Way, Damian Gerke
- Bhojpuri Breakthrough, Victor John
For Discipling New Believers in a DMM Friendly Way
- Discovery Bible Study Facilitators Guide
- Foundations of the Christian Life
- The Only One
- Multiply
- Zúme Training Book
For Conceptual/Model Overviews
- Contagious disciple-making
- Kingdom First
- The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church
- Missionary Methods
- BILD Encyclicals
- The Gathering
- The Kingdom Unleashed
- Seven Things I’ve Learned in Seven Years of Disciple Making
- The Equipping Servants of the Early Church
- Understanding the Church and Her Mission
For Readers Who Want More
If you’ve read the above and you want more…
- Church 3.0
- The Starfish and the Spirit
- Movements That Move
- BILD Encyclicals
- The Forgotten Ways
- Reframation
- The permanent revolution
- Missionary Methods
- Total church
- The other half of church
- From Christendom to Apostolic Mission
- The Rise and Fall of Movements
- Movements That Change the World