Questions & answers
Questions, answers, and what the words mean
A few of the questions we hear most often, and then the glossary — every term this site uses, defined. Don't see yours? We're glad to talk it through.
What is CoMission?
CoMission is a disciple-making platform and implementation model that helps God's people make disciples who multiply.
What does CoMission teach?
CoMission teaches a Bible-centered, Spirit-dependent, obedience-oriented vision of disciple making. It teaches that God builds faith through His Word, that ordinary believers can help others know Jesus through Scripture, and that churches need practical pathways for disciple making.
Is CoMission only for Honduras?
No. Santa Ana, Honduras is where the field work happens and where every mission team goes, and the model is built to serve churches, ministries, and believers anywhere there are trained disciple makers.
Is CoMission replacing the local church?
No. CoMission exists to strengthen the church, not replace it.
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Glossary
The words we use, defined
Every term below appears somewhere on this site. The first time one of them shows up on a page, it links back here — so nobody has to already know the vocabulary to read the page.
- Discovery Bible Study (DBS)
- A way of reading Scripture together that needs no expert and no study guide: read a short passage, retell it in your own words, and answer the same four questions every time — what does this teach me about God, what does it teach me about people, what will I obey this week, and who will I tell. Almost everyone who follows Jesus started roughly this way.
- Seeker
- Someone who is spiritually open — who has asked for prayer, asked a question, or shown interest in Scripture — and who is ready for someone to follow up with them. Not a stranger to be converted; a person who already leaned in.
- Disciple maker
- An ordinary believer who walks with a seeker through Scripture. Not a title, a credential, or a staff role — the qualification is trusting the Word and the Holy Spirit and being willing to show up.
- Disciple-making pathway
- The whole route a person travels, from the moment they show spiritual interest to the day they are walking with someone else. It is a pathway rather than a program because it has no graduation: the end of one person's journey is the start of the next one's.
- Discipleship gateway
- A simple, intentional way of identifying spiritually open people and opening the door to Bible study and follow-up. A prayer box at a clinic is a gateway; so is a question on an intake form. The point is that spiritual interest gets noticed instead of passing by.
- Obedience-oriented
- Measuring discipleship by what someone actually does with Scripture rather than by how much they know about it. The question after a passage is “what will I obey this week?”, and the answer is expected to cost something.
- Routing
- Getting a seeker's request to the right place. When someone asks for prayer or for Bible study, routing is what carries that request from wherever it was captured to the church or ministry that can actually follow up nearby.
- Assigning
- Naming the specific disciple maker who will walk with a specific seeker. Routing gets the request to the right church; assigning makes one person responsible for it, which is the step most follow-up quietly skips.
- Sponsoring church
- A congregation that funds another church's engagement — covering the gap between what that engagement costs and what the receiving church can carry. A sponsoring church is giving toward a specific church's disciple making, not toward CoMission's general work. Compare supporting church, below: the two are a syllable apart and mean different things.
- Supporting church
- A congregation that supports CoMission itself — staff, travel, materials, the platform, the library everyone uses for free. A supporting church funds the ministry; a sponsoring church funds a particular church's engagement. A congregation can be both, and some are.
- DMR — Disciple-Maker Rate
- The share of disciple makers who have actively made a disciple in a given period. It answers a question attendance never does: of the people we have trained and sent, how many are actually walking with someone right now?
- MGD — Maximum Generational Depth
- The greatest number of generations deep the disciple making has gone — someone discipled someone, who discipled someone, who discipled someone. MGD is the number that shows whether a church is multiplying or only adding.
The field report
We'd rather show you than tell you.
Every quarter we write up what actually happened — who was trained, how many people opened a Bible for the first time, how deep the multiplication went, and what got harder. It's the same report our partner churches read. Ask for it, and we'll send the current one.