When you think of a mission field what pops in your head? Where do you visualize this to be? For most of us we think of jumping on a plane and going to another continent to do mission work. We as followers of Christ have gotten this skewed. With so many churches and some 2.3 billion so called Christians how can we look around and see so many ineffective followers of Christ. Mission fields are all around us. Some of us are called to be in media for influence, some entertainment, some to be teachers, some government officials. We all have a mission field and more likely than not it is in our own back yard. It is time we think of our businesses and our jobs as mission fields. It is where we spend the most time and energy since we go to them every single day. Multiplication comes from Matthew 28:18-20. Straight from Jesus’ mouth. Jesus relayed that all power and authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me (Matt 28:18). Jesus received this inheritance from the father. Jesus’ inheritance (Psalm 2:7-9) after he ascended into Heaven and sat at the right hand of the Father is clear. Jesus was to inherit the earth and all the nations were his. He split them up with his scepter and this is how we end up with different races, ethnicities, languages and individual people sets. God was the first nationalist. That can be a whole other blog or sermon. Jesus stated we were to go! Like Acts 1:8 we are to be equipped to travel throughout the ends of the earth to preach the gospel of Jesus. Show the world through signs and wonders who he is. Like a life that is conducive to what Jesus demonstrated on earth. Living a life like we see in Acts. If 12 men couldn’t be stopped then why would we think we can now. If you are a parent you can relate to how we can imprint ourselves onto our children. We pass on the good along with the bad. Before we know it, our children are like little clones of ourselves. When I entered the picture with my wife, her son was 5 years old. He is our son and he is now 31 and grew up acting more like me every year. He took on the good things, but also the bad qualities that were pressed into his moldable mind. It is even more clear proof that somethings can be in your DNA but we can never underestimate the power we have by the time and relational situations we share with others. We were also charged with making disciples wherever we are called to go. We are called to go and leave his impression with everyone we come into contact with. We should be acting like his chosen ones and leaving his mark like a signet ring in wax (Haggai 2:23 b). This is a whole other discussion for end times. Why do you think making disciples is rare in the church today? Why does the entire body look to the pastor for all the answers? I think it comes down to one simple thing we often overlook. Family is the answer. Years ago, I heard it in a book “Sticky Church” written by Larry Osborne. He discussed his observation that many believers come in the front door of church, but often leave out the back door never to be seen again. The way he said to keep believers plugged into church was getting them plugged into small groups. This was to get them to do church like it was originally designed. Small groups that are successful consider themselves like family. Even small groups get together for a season and often break up. Why? I truly believe in family sized groups of believers doing life together. But I would add to this thought that if they want to be successful, they have to have the Christ centered mandate of multiplication so they will stay alive past a few years and multiply naturally. Without this outward multiplication model, they will only be for a season and Jesus will not bless what he didn’t model in his own life. Our common current model of Evangelism for many is simply addition. We go into places or hold local services where we do an alter call and have them pray a sinner’s prayer and we leave. Ephesians Chapter 4 is important and essential to building unity and maturity in the Body of Christ. Currently we are not equipping the saints (Ephesians 4:12) and definitely not imprinting Christ into them or discipling like we are mandated to do. The Christians who have been imprinted with a simple prayer only usually find their place in the kingdom after a quick survey that is focused on and results in how they can serve their congregation within their four walls. Soon they are passing the offering bucket or communion elements on Sunday, help out with baby siting in the church nursery, or stand at the door and greet. People as they are discipled should grow. Our current model is to save souls and not shape nations. For in Psalms 2 Jesus’ inheritance is nations not souls. He calls us to go, but more importantly make disciples. We need to make disciples who make disciples. There are a number of people who call themselves followers of Christ who don’t know the true gospel and there are still approx. 1.6 billion unreached people who haven’t heard the gospel at all. With all that we have, this is unacceptable to me. God has placed on my heart this very solution. Resurrected Home Ministries is called to establish and unify home sized churches with spirit filled disciples who are committed, equipped, and living a life in love and worthy of our Lord and Savior-Jesus Christ. We are focused on making disciples who make disciples. We do this centered around three foundations we call Tents, Tribes, and Travelers. We help people enter into the presence of God wherever they go (Abraham’s tents), establish and belong to a tribe here on earth and in heaven (Tribe of Judah and Tribe of Zion), and develop a hunger that propels them into all the pockets of the world they are called to because they can’t contain the gratitude God has placed in their hearts (making discipling travelers). Each home church that is formed enters into this understanding that we are called to make disciples that make other disciples. The faces they see should change if they are carrying out what Jesus modeled for them. A model that Jesus proved to be successful with his 12 disciples as they took the earth by storm as outlined in Acts. Living this way is easy. It is outlined from the beginning in Genesis 1:28 “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it.” It has a deeper meaning than just make babies. We are the bride of Christ, Jesus isn’t returning for a scattered, ineffective, ignorant, crippled army or family of believers. It is time that we become equipped, multiplying an equipped family, and subdue the earth which is Jesus’ inheritance. This is something important to him and he has entrusted us with it all until he returns. It is time for some spring cleaning and a changed mindset in the house of the Lord