7 Reasons We Don’t Make Disciples
4. We are impressed with size. The descendants of Noah built the Tower of Babel because they wanted to make a monument to themselves. This has always been the tendency of carnal men. We love big. We love the spotlight. But God came down and confused the builders of Babel (see Genesis 11) because He wanted them to build out, not up. We prefer addition when God desires multiplication!
Dawson Trotman, the founder of the Navigators organization, was committed to the concept of discipleship because he knew if he could invest in a small group of Christians until they reached maturity, they would then invest in others, and then the chain reaction would create a multiplication effect. If four people discipled four other people over a six-month period, Trotman said, and those people discipled four more people in six months, this would result in 1,024 disciples after five years. And after 16 years, there would be more than 2 billion disciples! If we did it God’s way, we could reach the world!
