What will it take to start and sustain a church planting movement in the United States? Exponential Director Todd Wilson shares why local churches need what he calls a “micro and macro multiplication” approach, plus a core conviction to reproduce.
“Think globally, act locally.” That strategy has fueled my friend Rick Ruble’s nearly perfect winning record at the board game Risk. I like to think of it as having a micro/macro strategy—a micro or local strategy close to home for adding the next one, and simultaneously a macro strategy for multiplying your impact beyond your local context. The macro strategy recognizes that the most powerful way to multiply is to plant new churches that become platforms for addition at the individual believer level.
Working together, these dynamics give us two of the primary tools we need for creating and sustaining a church planting movement—a healthy balance between addition and multiplication strategies. Movements multiply through addition, with one-on-one relationships offering the best context for adding disciples. The micro (or local) does the heavy lifting of adding while the macro (releasing and sending) gives the context for multiplying. Read more
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