I wore out a highlighter on an incredible 120 page book recently. It’s called The Mobilization Flywheel: Building a Culture of Biblical Mobilization by Larry Walkemeyer and Todd Wilson. You may recognize Todd’s name from the Exponential Conference. Mobilization is the 2019 Exponential theme. This book, along with companion resources, drives the point home of the needed shifts in today’s church. The big idea is that today’s church may just be holding people back from becoming all that God made them for. Do we see people as mere volunteers to prop up our ministries or as masterpieces, created by God for kingdom transformation?

The book focuses on three things – Missionaries, Gatherings, Church –

• every believer is a missionary,
• every church should be a mobilization station that sends its missionaries,
• every believer can play a role in gatherings that share the gospel,
• and many gatherings can become new churches led by everyday missionaries.

Simple, Biblical steps from Mobilization to Multiplication.

There’s even a great section on how denominations and networks can fuel mobilization and multiplication in the 21st century.

I’m ordering a box of these. Hope you’ll read it and get a passion for Mobilizing God’s Masterpieces for kingdom expansion. You can actually get a free E-book version HERE.

A few of my favorite quotes: 

• The average church is always looking for more volunteers to do more church work. At the same time, the typical Christian is frequently seeking more purpose in their lives. 
• The church trains volunteers to pass out bulletins, while Jesus trained his disciples to cast out demons. 
• From start to finish the call of discipleship is to be sent, to live as sent ones, to live mobilized! 
• The church has mostly lived a “Come and See” model while Jesus operated from a “Go and Be” model. 
• Too often we see individuals as volunteers to fuel our programs and to serve our purposes rather than as everyday missionaries with everyday mission fields…. 
• Leaders must shift from a bias of “We can do it, you can help” to one of “You can do it; how can we help?” 
• Most so-called revivals these days prioritize greater sensations for the saved, instead of greater sending of the saved. 
• Biblical discipleship always majored on going. Disciples were sent to make other disciples. Increasing maturity was evidenced by increased spiritual activity by disciples among non-believers. 
• Biblical disciples are individuals who have determined their most significant accomplishments in life will be making disciples who make disciples. 
• Biblical churches are churches who have embraced an operating system that prioritizes and practices equipping and sending believers to be disciples who in turn make disciples in their unique mission fields.
• Is today’s church so pastor-centric that believers are motivated to climb upward in the church power structures instead of inspired to move outward into their mission fields?
• Jesus knew that twelve multiplying disciples was a bigger number than 12,000 miracle seekers. 
• Jesus trained disciples to cast out demons, but we settle for training believers to pass out bulletins and wonder why the average Christian is bored. 
• There is a vast difference between volunteers filling a space and ordinary missionaries reaching an un-reached place.
• We must shift our paradigm from recruiting volunteers to accomplish “our thing” to mobilizing everyday missionaries in their common and unique callings to accomplish “God’s thing.”
• As Christian leaders, our paramount resource is not our building, our bank account, our band, etc…. It is the people the master has trusted us with leading.
• Do I help believers dream about their “more” or try to limit their vision to inside our church’s ministry? 
• Churches – prioritize helping members live into their calling outside the church more than inside the church …. Raising up everyday missionaries, not just volunteers for ministry …. Keep the church simple and mission-focused …. Not running programs but equipping members to reach and disciple people in their individual mission fields.