Do you practice a mentoring strategy of multiplication or a mentoring strategy of addition?
2 Timothy 2:2 “The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.” (NASB)
For most of my Christian life, I have heard about, but rarely witnessed, the discipleship process called multiplication. Allow me to explain. Excited Christian leaders stand before a group of new believers and explain, “I want each of you to go out and start a Bible study with four or five other men.” So far … so good. “Then, I want you to emphasize that each one of them should also have in mind the idea of launching their own group.” You see a pattern here? “Then, each of those new members should, at the start, know that they will also be starting their own discipleship group and mentoring others!”
Probably, you are thinking about multi-level marketing or some nefarious Ponzi scheme for making money. However, this is the biblical, Jesus-way for making disciples. However, rarely have I seen this ...
