Multiplication

Disciple Making FROM THE LIFE OF CHRIST a study in

Goals PURPOSE 1. To discuss our _________ 2. To define the end _________ PRODUCT 3. To look at the disciplemaking _________ PROCESS 4. To determine your PLAN _____(strategy)

Two Core Convictions 1. Jesus was about creating a movement MULTIPLICATION of _______________.

Power of Multiplication: What would you rather have? 1 Million dollars a day for 30 days OR $1 a day doubled for 30 days

$2,142,000,000 OR 714 times the 30 million!! © Sonlife Classic

Power of Multiplication: How thick would 50th fold = the 50th fold of 17,000,000 a thin Indigo miles thick... Bible page be? distance to moon and back... 35X’s !! © Sonlife Classic

Power of Multiplication: How long would it take to win the world to Christ?

Win 1000 people a day OR One reproducing disciple every six months? Addition: 17,534 years (if no one else born) Multiplication: year 1 = 4, year 2 = 16, year 3 = 64, year 8 = 64,000, year 12 = 17,088,000, year 17 = done!! © Sonlife Classic

“We have a hard time with this kind of progression, because the end result seems so far out of proportion to the cause.” Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point (p.11)

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Two Core Convictions 1. Jesus was about creating a movement MULTIPLICATION of _______________ WALK AS Jesus 2. We are told to “_________ DO what I have been walked” to “___ PATTERN doing”...and to follow the “_________” set by the Lord.

The Son’s Strategy The Process of Building a Movement

First 30 Years 3 Major Events Mission & Motive Product & Process

Rural Judean Wilderness

Capernaum

Choose the twelve

Only 2 miracles

30+ miracles 50+outreach events

2 1/2 Years

Come and see 1 1/2 years

Follow me... fishers of men

Man of Peace

Relationally Driven

Priorities 1-6 © Sonlife Classic

Priority 7

Priority 8

Priority 9

The Son’s Strategy

87% Sunday Morning Sunday School

Wed Prayer Mtg. Small Groups

THE FATHER’S AGENDA

Phase1

The Preparation Period © Sonlife Classic

About 30 Years

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18-21 Months

6-9 Months

About 15 Months

Our MISSION Matthew 28:18-20 Christ’s last words summed up the single mission of His life. His last words include one command and three participial phrases (verb forms):

MAKE DISCIPLES FIRST COMMAND = “___________________” THREE VERBS

= 1. ________ GOING 2. _____________ BAPTIZING 3. ____________________ TEACHING THEM TO _______ OBEY

A SECOND IMPERATIVE = “__________” BEHOLD

Our MISSION Matthew 28:18-20

...Conclusion on our Mission: CLEAR 1. Our mission is ________. 2. Wrapped around Matthew 28 is the promise PRESENCE of Christ’s active manifest ______________.

3. A Great Commission healthy ministry is not BIG or ________ BUSY ministry. necessarily a ______

Tasks

Task Oriented Service Projects

People Care Projects Servant to the body of Christ

Evangelism Projects Sharing our faith on a short-term basis

Caring for Believers Ongoing care for peers in the body of Christ

Caring for Unbelievers Ongoing care for peers outside the body of Christ

Sharing Christ Influencing peers through planting & reaping with the church’s help

Disciple making Lifestyle Initiating new relationships for the purpose of evangelism and nurture

Matthew 4:19 Luke 10:21 Acts 8:4

Implications: A. Leaders tend to REPRODUCE ______________________who PEOPLE are at the same spiritual level as they are...

B. We must champion the M6-M7 lifestyle--_________________ MAKING HEROES of those who are involved in the process of reaching and discipling their peers.

C. A fully trained disciple is LIVING _______ an M6-M7 lifestyle, but because of giftedness may be ministering in the ministry at another level of ministry.

Implications: HELP and not _______ HINDER D. The program structure must _____ believers from living an M7 lifestyle.

E. Ministries must help believers with outreach through TEAM EFFORT evangelism, not just personal evangelism. ____________ THE 5.3 PRINCIPLE - A typical unchurched person must get to know at least 5.3 believers relationally before they will trust the message of Christianity.

Conclusions:

1. Where are you personally on the M1-M7 chart? 2. What will it take for you to move closer to a M7 lifestyle?

3. What will it take in your ministry to move more people to an M7 lifestyle? 4. Over the next 5 years what is your faith goal for multiplication?

THE FATHER’S AGENDA

Phase1

The Process © Sonlife Classic

Five Stages

THE LOST 1. ___________ THE POINT OF CONVERSION 2. _____________________________ THE BELIEVER 3. __________________________ THE WORKER 4. _______________ THE MATURE DISCIPLE 5. ________________________ THE OVERSEER _________________

Conclusions: 1. Each step of the journey is _________________. SUPERNATURAL OK 2. People are at different levels of growth and that is ____.

3. The active presence of the _____________ HOLY SPIRIT is critical. 4. A healthy ministry is a _____________. MESSY ONE FULLY TRAINED 5. Every believer needs to be ________________... but not every Christian will GIFTEDNESS not ABILITY and _____________ enter into “leadership”... this is based upon ________ just maturity.