New Churches Podcast | Season 1 | Episode 823

Becoming a Church that Multiplies

Vance Pitman, J.A. Medders & Aaron Cavin

Hosts Vance Pitman and Jeff Medders reunite with Aaron Cavin, the pastor, planter, and Send Network city missionary to Boston, Massachusetts. Tune in as they discuss the intricacies of developing a sending church culture and how you can help your people live sent as they think multiplication from the earliest days of your church plant.

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

  • The core characteristics of a multiplying church in today’s ministry contexts
  • How to view your ministry role in light of your mission to multiply disciples
  • Ways to navigate the hurdles and complexities of sending your best people out on mission
  • How multiplication impacts our communities, congregations, and immediate households as church planters
  • What a sending culture means for the overall atmosphere of your church

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Sharable Quotes (#NewChurches):

Too many churches in North America view multiplication as an optional program for the church. When you look at the New Testament, though, the mission demands disciples and churches that multiply. — Vance Pitman

Culture precedes calling. If you think somebody will randomly self-identify as a planter in a church without a culture of multiplication, you’re six steps behind. Before you multiply churches, you should get really good at multiplying disciples. — Aaron Cavin

The question for us is not just “How do we get as many people as we can into our building?” but “How are we creating a culture that is more about scattering than gathering?” — Aaron Cavin

God births churches to accomplish His mission, which is both local and global. You have to cast a compelling kingdom vision that is bigger than a church, city, or even a nation. It’s about God’s global movement happening all over the world. — Vance Pitman

We would tell every person joining our church, “If you join our church, we’re going to do everything we can to talk you into leaving.” Part of that was building a sending culture that didn’t bring you here to just allow you to stay. — Vance Pitman

It’s okay to be sad. It means that you are all in, living with heart, and passionate about your relationships. You should feel a bit of a tension as we separate because there is a little bit of death. — Aaron Cavin

Published on April 18, 2024

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Vance Pitman

Vance Pitman is the Founder & President of Vance Pitman Ministries and National Mobilizer with the North American Mission Board. He is the founding pastor of Hope Church Las Vegas, which he led from a living-room gathering of 18 people in 2001 into a thriving, multi-ethnic church of more than 4,000 members representing over 54 languages twenty years later. Following his retirement from Hope, Vance served as President of Send Network, the largest church-planting organization in North America, where he helped accelerate the multiplication of churches across the continent. Today, he coaches pastors and church planters in leadership, church multiplication, and spiritual health while traveling as an ambassador for the North American Mission Board. Vance is the author of UNBURDENED and The Stressless Life.
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J.A. Medders

General Editor New Churches

J. A. Medders (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the director of theology and content for Send Network, and the general editor for New Churches. He is the author of Gospel Formed, Humble Calvinism, and co-author of The Soul-Winning Church. You can follow Jeff on X, Instagram, and his newsletter.

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Aaron Cavin

Aaron Cavin is the Senior Pastor of Life Community Church, which he and his wife started in 2007.  Over the last 14 years Life Community has grown from a Bible study in their living room to a growing family of churches on the South Shore of Massachusetts with 3 parishes in Quincy, Braintree and Weymouth.  In addition to pastoring Life Community Church, Aaron is the SEND Network City Missionary in Boston for the North American Mission Board.  He and his wife, Kortney have been married for 22 years and have five boys: Brendan, Preston, Karson, Keaton and Clayton. He loves Jesus, his family and good BBQ.

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