| Addition or Multiplication? Let's say that you get excited about the Great Commission and decide to go to China. You get a plane ticket to Peking, hire an interpreter and get a building that seats 3000. (You are an optimist.) You put up a sign: "The gospel will be preached here Sunday morning." The place is packed and you give the gospel message. All 3000 come forward and give their lives to Christ! Things go so well that you decide to do it again at 2 in the afternoon and the same thing happens. Again at 6 in the evening and the same thing happens! Nine thousand total. This is a revival! Fantastic! Monday morning the same thing happens, another 9000 make a decision. Again on Tuesday. How long will it take at this rate to reach China? YOU NEVER WILL! Because the population is growing faster than 9000 a day. Then what shall Christians do? Pray for one. Start evangelizing and one comes to Christ. GREAT! Now you have a Baby Christian (convert), but Jesus said to make disciples. So start training him with Quiet Time and Scripture Memory and Prayer and Fellowship. Then Witnessing and begin to pray and each of you lead one other to Christ by the next year. Only 4 after two years.... (Not great by the world's standards) 9000 a day is unbelievable, but one a year is not too outlandish. Two become 4 then 8 then 16 then 32, doubling every year. My friend, you will reach China in less than 50 years! And not only that, but in 57 years you will reach the whole world. That's the power of MULTIPLICATION! Someone has said that anyone can see apples on the tree, but only a person of vision can see trees in the apple. If the seeds of the apple fall into the ground, then more trees will produce more apples which fall into the ground which produce more trees until the world is full of trees. |
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| "Paul taught Timothy; Timothy shared what he knew with faithful men; these faithful men would then teach others also. If every believer followed this pattern, the church could reach the entire world in one generation! Mass crusades, in which I believe and to which I have ccommitted my life, will never finish the Great Commission; but a one-to-one ministry will." Billy Graham |
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