4.3 ACOP Global Mission’s Strategy

[Sarah]

Addition is good – as they stated in the video. It still adds to the kingdom and the gospel goes out. However, not only does multiplication mean more people are reached with the gospel, but it also means more people are actively walking out their discipleship by making more disciples, not just living as converts. Multiplication means more people saved, and more people actually living out the calling of Matthew 28.

[Nicole]

Addition strategy is the model of missions wherein a missionary brings one person to the Lord, and then another and another etc. Multiplication is when a missionary brings someone to the Lord and then teaches them to bring someone to the Lord. This exponentially increases the number of people being led to the Lord at each new “generation” of believer.

[Caleb]

the addition strategy of missions can be described as sending a missionary to an area and having them make one disciple, then the missionary moves on and makes another disciple. while this is good and people are being saved this way, it is no match mathematically for the salvation of an ever growing population. Believers will dies off before the nation is reached.

multiplication strategy of missions is where its at. this is where a missionary makes disciples who make disciples. they share the Gospel to people, those people believe and those people are equipped by the missionary to also follow the great commission and share Jesus, making more disciples. this creates a train of ever growing disciples of Jesus that keeps growing.

[Micah]

Mathematically, multiplication is what is required to see every nation reached by the gospel, but the benefits of multiplication go beyond that: If missionaries are making disciples from the nation they are reaching who then make disciples of their own ethic background, there is a stronger connection and sustainable bond. As the saying goes, “fight fire with fire.” Not only does this apply in cross-ethnic mission, but also in terms of different generations, as people are the most effective in reaching their own immediate groups, ethnic background, and culture. With the multiplication method, the second generation of believers and onward are being reached by their own people and their culture is baptized and sanctified (as opposed to assimilating Canadian church culture on others).