We Want to Add; God Wants to Multiply

We were honored (and more than a little surprised) to be used as a case study during the Exponential East conference earlier this year, in Orlando. The theme of the conference focused on the question, “How do we put to death our human passion for addition-growth, opting instead for a more healthy Kingdom growth focused on multiplication?”

This first video is an interview with me talking about my (often painful) journey toward the idea that sending capacity, not seating capacity, is the measure of our church’s success:

This second video features Andrew Hopper, pastor of Mercy Hill Church in Greensboro (one of our church plants), talking about reproducing a sending DNA in a young church:

And here’s Spence Shelton, pastor of Mercy Church in Charlotte, NC (another church plant), talking about what it looks like to recruit and build a church planting team:

If you missed out on Exponential East, it’s not too late to jump on board with Exponential West. Join me and 3,000 other church planting leaders in sunny Los Angeles this October. (For more, check out their site here.)