What if every Christian made just 2 disciples? And when these 2 disciples are made, they in turn make 2 disciples. And let’s assume the 2 disciples are made every year. At the end of year 1 there would be 2 disciples. At the end of year 5 there would be 32 disciples. At the end of year 10 there would be 1024. After 20 years there would be 1,048,576. At the end of 40 years there would be 1,099,511,627,776. At the end of 60 years, how many disciples would we have? 1,152,921,504,606,846,976. That’s 1.1 quintillion (I had to look that up). Of course not that many people have lived in history, but you get the point. The beauty of making disciples is that there is no limit to the work that God can do. The early church saw 3000 people saved at one time and this number quickly grew to 5000. Could we see this kind of growth today? I believe we could. But we need to make disciples and not simply converts. Converts make converts, but disciples make disciples; and we are called to make disciples. As one pastor has pointedly said, “This is the one church program that God has promised to bless: making disciples.”
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