Ed Stetzer: Why We Multiply Everything, Including Churches and Campuses

Four Reasons Grace Church Started a Second Campus

When we planted Grace Church in a local movie theater two years ago, we assumed that one day we would have a more permanent location. Meeting in a theater is not without challenges, and we assumed we'd eventually have a place for offices and more permanent meeting space, etc.

We also had plans (which are currently in process) of sending out a planter and were excited about planting a new church. We think it is essential to plant and to do it early so that multiplication is part of the life of our church.

However, we did not expect that we would be multiplying our local campus so soon. Keep reading

A new church that does not multiply within the first five years after it was planted is not likely to multiply at all. It is not likely to become a church that plants new churches.