Neil Cole
How do you know if your strategy for disciple-making is exponential or incremental? Here's the forumla he gave to help.
Your baptism goal (number your church would hope to baptize in a year) x 1 million=
If what you're doing doesn't have the potential to reach that many people, then the strategy is incremental, not exponential.
You can't use an addition system and slowly evolve into multiplication.
A church multiplication movement is not...
- a movement without multiple generations (of churches)
- gathering Christians from other churches
- big revival meetings (you reproduce what you are)
- a centralized leadership development institution that sends out leaders
A church multiplication movement is self-perpetuating and self-propagating.
96% of churches don't multiply/reproduce. If this happened with women we'd be worried!
The DNA of the church
- Divine Truth
- Nurturing Relationships
- Apostolic Mission
- You cannot supplement, subtract from, or seperate the DNA without bad things happening.
Can we have order in chaos? (referring mostly to leadership and decentralized churches)
- You can't control spontaneous multiplication. If you're controlling it, it won't spontaneously reproduce.
- We've confused order with control.
- Who is better at control, you or the Holy Spirit?
- If the DNA remains consistent, the whole will be consistent.
- An exoskeletal structure limits growth.
- An endoskeleton grows with an organism and isn't seen.
- Fractals are an example of consistent order in design at every level.
All reproduction happens on a cellular level (in other words, even the smallest units reproduce in living things)
- We all began as a zygote.
- Development happens naturally from micro to macro
- Disciples-->Leaders-->Churches-->Movements
- Multiply the simple enough times and it becomes complex.
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