Sunday, April 02, 2006

One Plus One Equals More

We have been tricked by the enemy or even the modern organized Church into believing that attracting large groups of people to our church services will result in more people being won to Jesus Christ and made into disciples who also make disciples.

Year..... Come & See Evangelism............... Disciples Making Disciples

1........................365.........................................2
2 ..................... 720...........................................4
3 ................... 1090 ...........................................8
4.................... 1460..........................................16
5.................... 1825..........................................32
10.................. 3650.......................................1024
20.................. 7300................................ 1,048,576
30............... 10,950 ...........................1,073,741,824
33............... 12,045...........................8,589,924,592

The Come & See model illustrates our approach to making disciples in America. We focus most of our energies into trying to attract people to attend our services so they can hear about and respond to Christ. The final column represents the New Testament model of making disciples who make disciples. As you can see, one on one disciple-making is the right way to do it. If every believer in America would invest their time and resources into making one disiciple who makes another disciple and continue doing that for 33 years will result in a net of 8,589,924,592 disciples being brought into the kingdom.

So now you see why I'm exciting about creating a disciplemaking system in America. Give me your thoughts on this matter.

5 Comments:

At April 03, 2006 7:30 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well, he says facetiously, that's far to slow for our microwave society looking for instant results instantly. No significant multiplication through the first 10 years? How will that look in the annual business meeting?

 
At April 03, 2006 11:35 AM, Blogger Bob Carder said...

I still for something that leads from exponential growth to geometric progression growth. I'm for a system growth that leads to unlimited growth.

In the Hagar "Americanized" Church we want instant results. Remember though, there is a difference! The difference is that while the Hagar system has more growth in the first 10 years -much of the growth is commitments and not true discipleship. What if in order to be a disciple you have to make a disciple? In the New Testament system to number of people listed are people making disciples and not people who are content to just be saved and sit in a pew or serve in the church who are already reached.

My answer to your question is -We work for Jesus not the congregation. As long as I'm doing it God's way "Who Cares" what people thing. This may be one of the reasons I'm not pastoring "HAGAR" today.

 
At April 03, 2006 2:28 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you sign up today on the ground level, you can start right away signing up resellers under you. You'll get to keep 10% of your own sales, plus 3% of the sales of the next level below you, plus 2% for every level below that.

If you sign up enough resellers with our fantastic system, pretty soon they'll be making all the sales, and you'll be making millions!

 
At April 04, 2006 7:48 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ooooo! An Amway victim has joined the blog. Welcome! Heh heh.

 
At April 05, 2006 3:31 PM, Blogger Bob Carder said...

He/she could also be a smart alec who wishes to remain anonymous so we cannot hold him/her accountable to make one disciple for Jesus.

Whew- that felt good.

Anonymous - I love you!

By the way -the system is 2,000 years old. It may be new to America but it is never new to Jesus.

 

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