What is your goal?

This past week I was challenged by the concept of what is my goal for planting movements. Recently some of our National Team met with Neil Cole of Church Multiplication Resources (author of Organic Church and Cultivating a life for God). I would have loved to have had a seat at that table.

Neil shared this nugget: "What is your goal? If it is to plant 50 churches [movements] then add couple of more zeros. If your strategy cannot get you to 500,000 then you are doing addition and not multiplication. If you start with the essence of multiplication, then top end is attainable."

I think asking this question really tells if you're doing multiplication or addition. We all talk about being ministries of multiplication but if our goal is only reaching a campus or our neighborhood than we are probably talking about addition. But if we're talking about reaching full cities, states, countries than we must talk about multiplication. If that is true than it can't be about our charisma, gifted speaking or attractive personality. It has to be about raising up leaders to raise up leaders who will plant more movements and plant more movements.

Thanks to Shane Deike for this input.
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