Genesis 1: 26-28
26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Genesis chapter one is a great place to start any discussion on biblical principles since all powerful biblical principles can be found threaded throughout the entire bible. Here God is commanding Adam and Eve to grow numerically as the very first command He gives to mankind. Isn’t that amazing? God existed for infinity before mankind and had all the time in the world, literally, to think about His first words to mankind and those first words were to go out and increase in number! God wanted more people, more babies, and more souls to seek Him.

Gods will (John 6: 40) and Gods work (John 6:29) is that as many as possible come to Him to be unified in love forever. Are you multiplying and increasing in number or are you stagnating in your faith? As disciples we are students of a master who multiplied himself… that means we need to multiply ourselves.

How are your convictions on the biblical principle of multiplication? Its amazing how God has been asking His people to multiply since the very begining of mankind! Take a look at this history of God commanding us to grow in numbers:

After the flood, when God wiped out mankind except for the family of Noah, he gives these instructions to the survivors: (Genesis 9:7) “As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.” God has not given up on lots of children who will seek Him and His healthy, spiritual and amazing ways. In fact, once again, its the first thing he says to the freshly disembarked passengers on mount Ararat in modern Turkey. Their mission was to multiply!
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Jeremiah 50:8-10
8 “Flee out of Babylon;
leave the land of the Babylonians,
and be like the goats that lead the flock.
9 For I will stir up and bring against Babylon
an alliance of great nations from the land of the north.
They will take up their positions against her,
and from the north she will be captured.
Their arrows will be like skilled warriors
who do not return empty-handed.
10 So Babylonia [b] will be plundered;
all who plunder her will have their fill,”
declares the LORD.

Well everyone, it’s been a great month! God has blessed the church here with three powerful baptisms, a touching restoration (the movement has it’s first Oxford graduate!), and an encouraging placed membership from our mighty sister church in Syracuse! That’s how you kick off an evangelism campaign!

Throughout December, the leadership team of the church took the disciples though a very edifying “Consolidation Campaign”. We had all of the new members go through the follow up series and read both the “Lion Never Sleeps” and “Master Plan of Evangelism”. The other members who had already completed the studies went through our “Leadership Study Series” that the leaders collaborated on. The five studies were entitled: 1: Can you confront false teaching, sin and discord? 2: Can you handle the pressure? 3: Are you a leader or a dead-ender? 4: Leadership by Imitation and Example. 5: Leaders of God are Fruitful!

There was a visible change in the spirit of the church as we came of out of December fully satisfied and challenged in our bible studies and our lives. This was the best Christmas holiday we’ve ever had as a church! The bible studies and challenges had an immediate impact as three new disciples were baptised and one restored; one a week for 4 weeks!
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The “London Evangelism Workshop III: One Another” will be held in a massive private lodge, all to ourselves with kitchen, mens and womens facilities, etc., for the January 15th to 17th weekend. There are enough bedrooms for everyone and we will have lots of fun activities and classes!

The London Evangelism Workshop is a great chance to shake off the Holiday turkey slumber and get back together as a team to advance forcefully into the new year!

Food (all 6 meals plus snacks and drinks) and accomodation is 35 GBP and transport needs to be organized personally however there will be a train stop about 5 mins away. Jacques is in charge of registrations.

We will be having a church fast for evangelistic fruitfulness leading up to the conference which we will break together on friday night!

Here is the detailed schedule:

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