Lessons from Church Multiplication Centers

Just finished reading an excellent article: Church Multiplication Centers: Best practices from churches that do high-yield church planting. If you have any spiritual entrepreneurial DNA in you, you'll want to read this.

Here are a few snippets from various pastors to wet your appetite:

• "From the top leader through all significant leadership teams, make the spiritual and philosophical shift from a church-growth mind set to a church-multiplication focus."
• "The CMC leaders began with a baseline passion to see lives transformed."
• "To follow Jesus' mandate of making disciples means that healthy organism grow and multiply."
• "For all of them, they exchanged the notoriety of becoming the biggest and fastest growing churches in their region to give away their best and brightest leaders and invest hard-earned financial, logistical and intellectual resources in places they may never see."
• "We are starting churches for the world. That's our context."
• "Am I going to build a big church or build big people?"
• "A lot of the folks we are sending out are homegrown--they came to Christ here, they get trained here and we send them out."
• "We want people who are hungry, not just hired hands--the kind of people who will do it whether you pay them or not."
• "We want to lower the bar on what it takes to do church, raise the bar on what it means to be a follower of Jesus. The world will always be able to compete with our preaching and drama and music. It cannot compete with a changed life."

When and how can we make some philosophical and emotional changes to help bring a church to every person in every neighborhood across the planet is the question I want to be part of answering. Join me?

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