Spiritual multiplication is the Biblical way to make disciples
among all peoples.Spiritual multiplication involves making disciples, and
sending them to make other disciples. Spiritual addition is making disciples
without sending them to make other disciples. The following link compares
church growth by multiplication with church growth by addition.
http://biblestudycd.com/spiritualmult.html
The website above shows that if a church converts and disciples
100 people per day but fails to get the new disciples to make disciples, it
would take 164,000 years to make disciples of the 6 billion people on our
planet. The Great Commission cannot be fulfilled through spiritual addition. But
if an individual converts and makes a disciple each 6 months, and if those disciples
convert and train 1 person each 6 months, the entire world would be converted
in 16.5 years! Spiritual multiplication is the process by which disciples reproduce
themselves. Like cells in a human body, one becomes two, two becomes four, four
becomes eight, and so on. A small body grows to be a large body.
To fulfill the Great Commission, we need not only to reproduce
individual disciples; we also need to reproduce churches. The training module
“Missiology” gives strategies for reproducing churches. (For details and for free course
visit <www.missionstraining.org>)
