Friday we did a pretty neat example of church planting multiplication. So there are 250 of us and we divided up into groups of four, which means we had about 62 groups. The example started with 2 men (A) who taught one group of four (B) the "10 Universal Elements of Church Planting" with hand motions, so they were easy to learn and remember. After A taught B, two members of B were sent to pray for the church planting and two were sent off to share with another group. It gets confusing, so I hope it all makes sense. This time A & B go to group C. Group C is taught by the members from B while members from A watch the new teachers to make sure they're teaching correctly. When group C learns, they send 2 more out, and the pattern continues while A starts teaching another group. At first it took forever for new groups to be taught, but obviously as more people got the message, more were able to share. By the end groups were learning pretty rapidly. When we were done the director asked if we continued this exercise 29 more times how many people would we have reached. Now I'm not smart enough to figure this out , but I was thinking we would have told several thousands of people. The room fell silent when he told us the answer - the whole world!
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