2_04: Todd Wilson – Church Multiplication & Your Sweet Spot Calling

Breakthrough ideas with Todd: 

• What’s the difference between a church plant and a church that’s planted to be a church-planting church?
• Imagine if somebody offered you a job where you’re 100% in your sweet spot
• What does it mean to work 100% of my time in your sweet spot?
• God made the world with sweet spots. They’re everywhere. You can’t go anywhere without them. What would it even mean to be in the sweet spot of calling?
• What are the common elements of all sweet spots?
• Every sweet spot God created has three common things. There is a design, there’s a purpose, and there’s a position.
• Who am I created to be? That’s a design question.
• What am I made to do? That’s a purpose question.
• Where am I supposed to do it? That’s a position question.
• If you can answer the position, design and purpose questions in an integrated way, you’ve found your sweet spot of calling.
• You’ve got a ministry job, but do you have a vocational calling?
• Over 90% of people in vocational ministry don’t know what their calling is.
• We start conditioning our kids from the time they’re born, to focus on doing. Not on being. We skip the being.
• People have spent their whole life on the doing and the going part, and not focused on the being part. And all of a sudden, they’re realizing, “I don’t really know who I am.”
• And we have to treat ourselves kind of in a mystery. We’ve got to be the investigator. Our life is the laboratory that we’re investigating.
• What we’ve got to do is go back to looking more at the ingredients that God has built into our DNA. Rather than just assuming the way that our family, our culture, our journey, our school, our church has put those ingredients together for us and kind of mandated the packaging,
• The question is, are we going to look at it in a fresh way and discover what is there and how the integration of those things bring us to life?
• What would you need to be doing that you’d want to spend the rest of your life doing it?
• Does your church even want to multiply what you’re producing?
• We are all called to be disciples who make disciples wherever we are.
• If you feel called to go half-way around the world to dig water wells somewhere you still have to not lose sight of the primary reason you’re there is to be a disciple who makes disciples.
• The core purpose of the church is disciple-making.
• The truth in the American church at this point is we have embraced a programmatic approach to accumulating cultural Christians.
• We are ignoring the primary calling in our churches of biblical disciple-making Jesus’ way opting instead for a programmatic accumulation that relies on our secondary callings.
• Jesus gave us a model for three years with 12 leaders. The way He’s changing the world is through one on one disciple-making or small group disciple-making relationally.
• Right now the average nominal operating system in the US church how do we add disciples? We add them programmatically.
• We can’t get where we need to be on our mission to see church multiplication happening if the church doesn’t get back the Jesus-style or relational disciple-making as the core thing in the church.
• Jesus could have chosen for three years to go and do big stadium revival events and drawn the most people in the world to do preaching and He could have added people that way. But he didn’t.
• But what Jesus did was give us a model of reproduction. A disciple who makes a disciple who makes a disciple who makes a disciple.
• What program in the history of the world has ever reproduced itself on its own? Programs do not reproduce.
• When you have a programmatic form of addition you will always hit the next plateau.
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