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The Multiplication Proclamation
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In Acts 2, God brought people to the church to see what was going on and believers were added to their numbers daily. In the church in Acts 13, rather than God bringing people to the church, He asked for people to be sent out from the church. That was the biggest difference I found in these two accounts.
Personally, durring my teen years when I focused a lot on evangelism, multiplication was not a big focus for me. I remember meeting people and sharing the gospel and leading them to the Lord, but in lots of cases I didn’t ever follow up with them, and that is something I wish I could have done better. I have faith that I’ve done my part and the Lord will do His part in the lives of those people, but it really put into perspective for me that I was looking at growth in the Kingdom as addition rather than multiplication. Recently, as I’ve been learning more about being a disciple who makes disciples and the principle of multiplication, I have struggled to reframe my thinking of how evangelism is done. Multiplication in the Kingdom and discipleship making seems to be a longer process than the street evangelism I am familiar with. I am excited to be learning and practicing multiplication because I want to see the the most fruit I can in the Kingdom of God.
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The church in Acts 13 was more of an apostolic center where all 5 ministry gifs were functioning. People were being trained & apprenticed, there was worship, fasting & prayer and people were being sent out as missionaries.
One way I have seen the principle of multiplication in my life is through my children. The way my wife and I live our lives and teach our children about the Lord is now starting to show in their lives as they express their walk with the Lord at school with teachers and friends. Also in how they have begun praying for us as parents recently…it’s powerful and inspiring!
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The church in Antioch was focused on training disciples to become disciple makers themselves and sent them out. As we move forward into new initiatives we need to ensure that we need to not only show people the truth of the gospel, but once they become a disciple themselves we need to teach them how to become a disciple maker themselves. When I think of multiplication, I think about when I worked in Youth ministry and I invited one of the street kids to come to church with me. The church welcomed this kid in. The next week we had two kids come. Then they asked if I could pick them up on the way to church. I stopped at a place they could get to and each week the number kept going up. Many of them became followers of Jesus and went on to share with others.
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Antioch was an apostolic training center.
Yes I’ve experienced multiplication in my walk
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