Multiplying Through Intentional Disciple Making

Trainers

George Klippenes Matt Larson

Web Sites

www.efcastartchurches.org www.jointheanthem.com

Goal

• Exegete Conference Logo

Multiplication Question?

• Do you want to be the largest church in the community or do you want to church your community?– Bob Roberts

Exhortation: Start Two

• Every healthy church a reproducing church

• Every church start two daughter churches

1. Replace Yourself2. Advance Kingdom

Reproducing Disconnect

• Believers• Disciples• Leaders • Small Groups

• Church Plants• Not Size, It is DNA!

Double Conversions

Double Attendance

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4

3750

6675

51

80

114

132

AttendanceDid Not Reproduce Planted Daughter Church

Historical Pattern

• "Christianity has always expanded through the multiplication of churches. The book of Acts records how the boundaries of the Christian faith were pushed to the uttermost parts of the world through the multiplication of new churches.

• To this day, throughout every generation, Christianity has extended to new areas and new peoples via the multiplication of new churches." (Robert Logan)

What happened?

• “How did Christianity change from a faith spread primarily through church planting to a faith in which church planting has become an unusual practice?” (Ed Stetzer)

Sterile Church Question• "You go into the poor areas of Manila, you plant

churches rapidly, they always produce their own leadership, they are never dependent on outside funds and they always reproduce.

• "I know two other brothers who plant churches in the same areas and it takes them six or seven years. They are always dependent, they never reproduce and they never can produce their own leadership. They say poverty has destroyed the psyche of the people and they are not leadership quality.

 • "I want to know why you can do it and they can't."

(Carol Davis)

Beneath Surface

• Why churches are not catching fish.

Intentional Disciple Making

First Stage

GO

• Matthew 28:19-20 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.

Church Growth Movement

In your going …

In your baptizing …

In your teaching …

= Make Disciples

Second Stage

Evangelism Discipleship

Laymen’s Movement

• Ephesians 4:11-13 (ESV) 11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Third Stage

Evangelism Formation Ministry

Leadership Movement

Fourth Stage

Evangelism Formation Ministry Leadership

Missional Movement

• John 20:21 (ESV) As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”

• Acts 1:8 (ESV) 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Fifth Stage

Evangelism Formation Ministry Leadership Mission

Church Problems

1. Focus

2. Balance: 87%

Win Build: 100% Equip Develop Release

3. Simplicity

4. Alignment

Deeper Problems

Intentional Discipleship

Win: Mt. 28:19

Build: Col.2:6-7

Equip: Eph. 4:11

Develop: II

Tim.2:2

Release: Acts 1:8

Discipleship Challenges

Membership Maturity Ministry Multiply Mission

Stair Step Commitment

• Come and see• Come and follow me• Come and abide• Come and die

Offer Basic Classes

Connect 101

Grow 201

Serve 301

Lead 401

Go 501

Sign Covenants

• Covenants are signed at the end of each class.

• Increasing commitment with each step and each class.

Plug into Cells

• People do not grow on their own.

• We all need other people to help us grow.

Key: Intentionality

Believers

Disciples

Leaders

Groups

Daughter Churches

The End