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The Four Essentials of Balance Acts 2:42-47 Reproductive Community

Learn about the four essential factors for church multiplication: the supremacy of Christ, community, transformation, and multiplication itself. Discover how the early Christians multiplied and the potential for growth today.

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The Four Essentials of Balance Acts 2:42-47 Reproductive Community

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  1. The Four Essentials of BalanceActs 2:42-47Reproductive Community

  2. The Four Essentials of Multiplication • DV #1 Transformation • SV #1 Supremacy of Christ • SV #2 Community • DV #2 Multiplication

  3. The Four Essentials of a Church Planting Church • Supreme Value • #1 Supremacy of Christ • It’s always all about Jesus.He is the Pilot (Head). • He is in charge and in control. • He Commands and enables multiplication

  4. The Four Essentials of Multiplication • Supreme Value • #2 Community • Jesus designed His Church to be built around a community of relationships. • We are one body. • We are necessary to each other. • We are viral/contagious

  5. The Four Essentials of Multiplication • Driving Value • #1 Transformation • When Jesus is our pilot, He takes us to His own quality of character. • He unselfs us and makes us humble givers where we were once proud takers. • He empowers a new creation that does good works.

  6. The Four Essentials of Multiplication • Driving Value • #2 Multiplication • Jesus never lets us settle for what has already been accomplished. • He thrusts us out into our world to multiply followers, leaders, churches, and church planting movements. • He empowers workers in His harvest.

  7. Colossians 1:3-6 • We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all the saints—the faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven and that you have already heard about in the word of truth, the gospel that has come to you. • All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and understood God's grace in all its truth.

  8. Multiplication of Followers • Quality and Quantity • “which you have heard about in the Word of Truth – the GOSPEL that has come to you.All over the world this Gospel is bearing fruit and growing – just it has been doing among you…” Colossians 1:5a-6a

  9. Multiplication and the 1st Christians • Acts 1:8“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes to you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” • Acts 2:41; 2:47; 4:4; 5:14, 42; 6:1, 7; 8:4, 14, 25, 40; 9:31; 11:21, 26; 12:24; 13:49; 14:1, 21; 16:5; 17:4, 12; 18:8; 19:10, 20; 28:22-23

  10. The Astonishing Historical Multiplication Reality • The Rise of Christianity • Rodney Stark • 40 AD 10,000 • 200 AD 218,000 • 350 AD 33,900,000 • 2006 AD 2 Billion Today

  11. Are We Still Multiplying? • How many new Christians in an average day? • India 6,000 • South America 10,000 • Africa 20,000 • China 32,000 • All significant multiplication is in Developing Countries!

  12. Are We Still Multiplying? • Western World of Developed Countries • - No Growth! • Europe 1-2% Evangelical Christians • England 7% Evangelicals • USA 13% Evangelicals – 40 Million… • 140,000 Missionaries • 90% Believe in God

  13. Are We Still Multiplying? • George Barna (Polling Expert)“There is not one county in the United States where the percentage of church-going Christians is increasing. Not one. Many churches are growing while the other churches in the area are declining. The end result is no real increase! • BUT

  14. The Law of Life • Every living thing is designed to reproduce after its kind (species) • According to God the church is a living organism – designed to multiply! • John 15:1-5 (Vine – Branches – Fruit) • We multiply followers of Jesus.

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