Reproduction

I spent the afternoon yesterday with a group of church planters, which was very exciting, and had an interesting thought upon waking this morning. In Genesis, when God created the universe, he enabled every living thing to make more living things, to reproduce, to be fruitful and multiply. Basically he's telling us to go make more of us because life is better when there is more life. If this is true of us as people, shouldn't it also be true of us as churches? (Perhaps this thought is old to you. If it is, please excuse my tardiness in thinking it.) Shouldn't we as local iterations of the Body of Christ try to make more bodies? It was put this way by one of my friends last night. "We want to plant church-planting churches who plant church-planting churches." Shouldn't there be more of us than there are? They also made the comment that church plants grow faster than established churches because they have to. If they don't reach out to the lost, they don't grow, and they fail. If it's easier for a church-plant to reach the lost, maybe that's what we should be doing, training others to go plant churches, to go plant churches, to go plant churches...

Perhaps now is the time for us in the Body to be fruitful and multiply.