God's Method for Reaching the World

And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. 2 Timothy 2:2

God's Plan is MULTIPLICATION.

It's the same way He populated the world, starting from one man and one woman. As they had children and their children had children, etc., world population multiplied.

As Christians, our job is to multiply the number of Christians in the world by winning others to Christ. We do that when every one of God's people commits to win one soul to Christ per year and bring them to church.

The problem is that it's much easier for people to procreate physically than it is to procreate spiritually.

Let's look at the Multiplication Effect for evangelism.

In 2 Timothy 2:2, Paul gave Timothy instructions for multiplying the results of his ministry.

And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

Paul's training (Salvation, doctrine, discipleship training - 2 Tim. 3:15-17)

Paul worked with and trained leaders... Timothy, Titus, Barnabas, Silas, etc.

Let's say that Paul trained 10 leaders in the period of a few years, and that each of these 6 leaders trained 10. Let's see how that would work out:

We know from Scripture that every believer has the privilege and responsibility of reaching others for Christ. There's no reason that almost every Christian in the U.S. and in many other parts of the world - except for the very young, the very old and the very sick - can win at least one person to Christ every year.

If every Christian obeyed God and brought one person to Christ every year, we would have an explosion in the Christian population within a few years. Our numbers would double every year until we saturated the world with the Gospel. That is God's Plan - THE Scriptural plan for the church. We are to be a multiplying people.

What can a church of 100 members do?

If each believer in the church wins one soul every year, the number of Christians in the church will double every year. A church of 100 would have 200 after one year, 400 after two years, etc. Look at the chart below to see what could happen in 15 years of doubling every year.

Now what if just 25 churches across the country did that?

In 15 years, there would be
327,678,000 new Christians
in the U.S. - most of the projected future U.S. population.

The impact we would have on reaching the world for Christ would be enormous. The extra money, manpower and evangelistic fervor for world missions would send out 1,000's of new missionaries and make make a major impact for Christ around the world.

Could that many people get saved in the U.S. in 15 years?

A number of years ago, I had the privilige of interviewing an elderly man of God named Rev. Willis. This man had gotten saved as a young  during the Welch Revival in the early 20th Century. I asked him when the the people in his town stopped getting saved. He answered, "It didn't stop until the last person in town became a Christian." Everybody in his town got saved!