The answer is “yes!” Your church can be a multiplying movement. In my last blog I discussed four essential questions you need to ask concerning your church. The first question was whether or not your church was a movement of addition or multiplication. To be clear,...
Thirty-one years ago I planted a church knowing that the goal was to eventually see that church become a movement of multiplying disciples. I had never been in a church that was committed to disciple making so I wasn’t that sure how to do it. I had also just graduated...
Prior to His ascension, Jesus gathered the eleven disciples to a mountain in Galilee to give them final instructions. These instructions were simply a commission to make disciples by teaching people in all nations to obey the commands of Jesus and be baptized after...
Have you ever seen employees in a store walking up and down the aisles with a check list or iPad taking stock of their current products? Usually at the beginning of the year or month, companies determine how much inventory they have so they can decide how much they...
I remember many years ago learning my multiplication tables. You probably do as well. I started with 1 x 1 and then continued to recite them all the way to 12 x 12. The repetition drove those tables into my mind in such a way that I still know them decades later....
For most of us, if we don’t have a good reason for why we need to do something that will be challenging, we probably won’t do it. Knowing why is essential in most any endeavor, but especially when it comes to multiplying disciples. If we knew and understood why...