A few convictions and random ideas:

• If we’re going to reach the world the church must learn to multiply. On and off campus.
• Church planting and multiplication must be done with greater simplicity, regularity, and more organically.
• As a church leader I must practice “catch and release”, “low control-high accountability”, “sending the whole church” in order to maximize multiplication and disciple making.
• Christianity started out as a movement driven by a message passed on by ordinary people across their relational networks. Christianity will spread faster as a movement than as an institution.
• Jesus regularly sent people out before they were “ready.” People are more ready than I want to admit most of the time.
• You’re never “ready” to plant a church, so that means you’re always ready to plant a church. Just do it.
• If a church doesn’t plant another church in its first three years it likely never will.
• Starting a worship service is different from planting a church or making disciples.
• Discipleship should result in disciple makers. Disciple makers will spark multiplication.
• Discipleship leads to mission. Want a missional, outwardly focused church? Teach people the ways of Jesus.
• God won’t call us to something we can’t handle. Wrong. God always calls us to impossible tasks. Church multiplication is impossible without the Holy Spirit.