multiplication

Important Note: This article was designed to fit in the last third of the three thirds meeting. Usually called “Multiplication” or “Look Ahead”. These exercises can be completed after the group has first done a self-discovery Bible study on the passage. It is not to be used as a teaching medium but instead as a memory reinforcement for what they have already discovered for themselves.

The Five "P"s in the template of how Jesus wanted us to pray.

Ever wondered: “What can I achieve for God?” “Look at me how could God ever use me?”
“The problems are just TOO big!”

You have to stop asking these questions and ask questions like: “What is God capable of doing through you!”

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Recently a friend sent me a quote from Michelangelo - "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." For most of my life, I aimed for zero, and guess what, I hit it.

After all – “What can I do? The problem is just too big and I could do nothing to really impact the troubled people of this world”.

Vision casting is a crucial aspect of AIM training, often incorporated in the first 1/3 of a session. We often get asked how we encourage multiplication or why people are not achieving multiplication. The answer is usually simple. There is one facet that we can directly affect that can change the dynamics of an entire network more than anything else and that is giving them Vision. Let them see through Christ’s eyes, let them feel through the Father’s heart. Normally in the DMM/CPM world, we always say to cast the biggest vision that you can. Never reduce the vision to the manageable.

Ask “How many apples can you get out of just one apple?” and show them an apple.

Make sure you get a number out of them.  Don't let them get away with an answer like "Lots".  Most people don’t know or have a really poor guess.

DMM and CPM Strategy Summary:

1. Focus on the two most important days of their life

2. Focus on Equipping and Permission Giving

3. Encourage early Baptism with knock-on effects

4. Pray for and thank God for your Grandchildren

5. Keep systems simple, short, authentic and reproducible

Practical Disciple Making Methods Explained:

Tip 1:

Acts 9:31   So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied. (ESV)