REPRODUCING

It is a normal fact of life that healthy people reproduce. So do healthy churches. They birth other living, thriving organisms from themselves.

The stats tell us that new churches grow 23 times faster than existing churches over 10 years old. If the mission of Christ is to expand and we are going to accomplish the plan of God on the earth, we must start new and reproducing churches.

As Dave Ferguson says: We don't just want bigger and more. We want to see the mission fulfilled.

To see Acts 1:8 happen - bringing heaven to the ends of the earth - we need more followers of Christ - not so we can keep track of them on an ever-expanding database or warehouse them in large buildings with crosses out front - but to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, include the lonely, bring hope to the hurting and help people find and experience God.

The best way we can do that is by reproducing churches. This is what I'm trading my life for.

And be blessed.