Church Multiplication: Hard or Easy???

26He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. 27Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. 28All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. 29As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.”

Mark 4:26-29

Church Multiplication: Hard or Easy???

Many Christians where hindered in pursuing church multiplication. In fact, I never met someone who said that church multiplication is easy. Our passage today talk about growing the kingdom of God and it teaches us some truths about church multiplication. We will be learning how God designed multiplication.

Multiplying is Easy God intended multiplication to be a natural thing to happen to all living things. It should be natural to both plants and animals. We must understand that living things started as a cell this includes the human being. This cell naturally multiplies itself until it forms a living thing. For example, all human beings started from a zygote. Then this zygote multiplies into billions of zygotes until it becomes a baby. Multiplication continues until it becomes an adult and produces another human being.
Going back to the passage that we have read, Jesus said that a man after sowing the seed sleeps and get up, the seed sprouts and grows but he does not know how. This means that he has nothing to do with its growth; it is the Lord that causes it to grow. And here, Jesus was comparing a plant to the kingdom of God.
One reason why it has been so hard for many Christians to bear fruit is because we take the part of allowing the Kingdom of God to grow. The thing is, it is not our responsibility to make it grow. It is the Lord who let it grow. What we have to do is to plant and sow the seed and then harvest it when time comes. What we can do is to allow ourselves to be used by God in growing His Kingdom by becoming sowers and harvesters.
It is indeed hard to grow the Kingdom of the Lord if we will take over his work. Our work is to become sowers and harvesters and not growing the Kingdom. The fact is, it is beyond our control to grow the Kingdom of the Lord.
So, if we are not growing the Kingdom and all we do is to sow and harvest, is it still hard to multiply? Just allow God to grow what you sow, and surely you will reap a harvest.


Multiplying is Enjoyable and Pleasurable
Like any other natural reproduction, church multiplication is supposed to be enjoyable and pleasurable. I personally believe that God designed multiplication to be enjoyable and pleasurable. Naturally speaking, all living creatures were designed by God to reproduce thus, designing it in a way that living things will surely enjoy it. That is how beautiful it is.
In fact, in the case of animals, some of them become so wild like pigs, dogs, rodents, cows, etc. if they cannot have sex during their heating period. God designed these creatures to find it so pleasurable that absence of it makes them abnormal in their behavior for a certain period.
Human beings find it so pleasurable that it even causes many people to sin and be engulfed with lust. We will not be talking about lust and sin, but we will be focusing on multiplication as a pleasurable and enjoyable thing to do.
This is exactly the same as church multiplication. God intended church multiplication to be pleasurable and enjoyable. Being involved in the ministry of the Lord is supposed to be enjoyable and not a burden. We are supposed to find pleasure in it rather than be obliged.

Luke 10:17-21 says: 17The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.”
18He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. 20However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
21At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure.

Our passage mentioned that when the harvest comes, the sower becomes the harvester. Now, just imagine a farmer. Does a farmer frown if he has a good harvest? What I know is that the more harvest they have the merrier they are. It is a challenge for them to sow more and harvest more. And they find pleasure in harvesting.
Becoming involved in the ministry of our Lord is pleasurable and enjoyable because this is God’s pleasure for us to do the work that he gave us.