Moving toward Church Multiplication Movements: 4 Steps for Developing Multiplication Leaders

Developing church multiplication leaders is the first aspect of a church multiplication movement.

Mission leaders like to talk about Church Planting Movements (CPMs), but I believe it's unlikely we will ever see one in our current context. 

A Church Planting Movement has a specific definition: a movement of church planting characterized by a rapid, even exponential, multiplication of churches within a people group or population segment.

Something like that will be unlikely to happen in the society in which we live. In an industrialized society, like our own, with labor segmentation in place, people assume specialization. Whether we like it or not (and I don't) people have a hard time seeing the mechanic as the pastor.

This type of thinking hinders an exponential movement, which is why we find CPMs most often in non-industrialized societies. But that doesn't mean all movements are impossible here. In our context, we should target a different goal. Keep reading