Which movement type is described as implanting the gospel within a pre-existing community rather than forming new fellowship groups?

• A. People movements
• B. Church planting movements
• C. Insider movements
• D. None of the above

Answer: (C)

This item tests how movement types approach introducing the gospel in relation to a community’s existing social fabric. Insider movements describe introducing faith in a way that stays inside the pre-existing community, rather than pulling people into separate, newly formed fellowship groups. The emphasis is on contextualization—believers who come to faith remain part of their own social and religious networks, often worshiping and practicing faith within the familiar rhythms of family, kinship, and local customs. This approach seeks to translate and incarnate the gospel so it fits the community’s language, practices, and loyalties, rather than creating a parallel church structure that sits outside or alongside the old identity.

In contrast, the other approaches are more associated with forming new fellowship groups or church networks within the same population, or with broad strategies of church planting and rapid church multiplication. So the description of implanting the gospel within a pre-existing community aligns with insider movements.