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The Multiplication Proclamation
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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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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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I think I have seen multiplication through Street Invaders. As a student I was taught that I was able to walk out my faith as my own and share my faith in my own life. My two leaders on my Street Invaders team taught 10 of us students what it means to be a disciple. Later on I became a leader and I taught the same thing to my teams, and now I see multiple students I led teaching that to multiple new students.
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In my own life I have seen multiplication be incredibly powerful. My faith and my family’s faith is a product of disciples making disciples. In my own life I have seen people I have discipled become disciple-makers themselves and therefor my impact has expanded way beyond anything I could have imagined!
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