Get busy and reproduce

I've been reading a lot of church planting stuff lately, and it has mostly had to do with church multiplication and reproduction. I want to share some simple, yet thought provoking stuff from one of these books.

"Viral Churches" by Ed Stetzer and Warren Bird claims that most church growth happens by addition, but challenges that a real movement will happen only by multiplication. Check out this concept that they offer:

"If a church of twenty people plants just one church of twenty each year, and each of those likewise follow the cycle of planting one church per year, then in twenty years the original church would have multiplied into more than ten million people."

I am inspired by this! A church of twenty planting a church of twenty each year that plant churches of twenty each year actually sounds somewhat attainable. Perhaps too often we think too big, and this bigness paralyzes us. Maybe small is the new big, maybe in order to fulfill a big dream we must start with a small one. What a great challenge for every church and leader: to plant a church of twenty this year and see what happens! My prayer is that churches all across the country will get pregnant this year and birth little babies that in twenty years will have grown into giants who wreak havoc for the kingdom of God. Time to do some conceiving!