What Is the Multiply Gathering? and David Platt
The Multiply Gathering is a call to obedience and discipleship, encouraging believers to take action and share the message of Christ with others.
This sermon emphasizes the importance of obeying Christ's command to make disciples, highlighting the need for believers to be serious about their faith and actively share it with others. The goal is to unite believers in this mission, encouraging each other to be confident and resolved in reaching out to neighbors and coworkers, knowing that Jesus promises to be with them and empower them for this task.
Full Transcript
We're gathering people together because I really believe that God has given David and I a message. All right, what does it mean when Jesus says, all authority in heaven and earth has been given to me, therefore go and make disciples? How can that command be central in our lives? This is what the future of the church really needs to be and we just want to explain that biblically in such a way that we all hear it and go, yeah, that's clearly the word of God and that we pass this on to everyone we know who calls himself a follower of Jesus Christ. Wherever you can join together with other believers who are saying, okay, we want to be serious about what it means to be a disciple, what it means to make disciples.
We want to obey the command of Christ. We want to experience the purpose of Christ. We've got to start getting serious about getting out and at least trying to make disciples, to get out and be more expressive with what we believe in our hearts.
And so as we're all convicted individually, it's about gathering us all together and having this sense of, yeah, we all believe this. We want to be united in this message and all trumpet this together. This is what we want to be a part of and so the whole goal of that gathering is to reflect that, to encourage one another that night.
As we leave, let's leave with a confidence, let's leave with a practical plan of how we're actually going to reach our neighbors, our coworkers. It's a sense of resolve, like I'm not going to let anything stop me. Jesus will be with us as he promises in Matthew chapter 28, verse 20, and he's going to give us the power to do this and we are going to be a part of the accomplishment of this mission.
Sermon Outline
- The Command of Christ
- The Importance of Obedience
- The Call to Action
- Encouragement and Resolve
- We leave with a confidence
- We leave with a practical plan to reach our neighbors and coworkers
Key Quotes
“We've got to start getting serious about getting out and at least trying to make disciples, to get out and be more expressive with what we believe in our hearts.” — Francis Chan
“Jesus will be with us as he promises in Matthew chapter 28, verse 20, and he's going to give us the power to do this and we are going to be a part of the accomplishment of this mission.” — Francis Chan
Application Points
- Take action and share the message of Christ with others, especially your neighbors and coworkers.
- Leave with a confidence and a practical plan to reach others with the message of Christ.
- Be part of the accomplishment of the mission by obeying the command of Christ and making disciples.