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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Meet the Authors

Vance Pitman

President Send Network

Vance Pitman is president of Send Network, founding pastor of Hope Church, and author of UNBURDENED: Stop Living for Jesus So Jesus Can Live Through You and The Stressless Life: Experiencing the Unshakable Presence of God’s Indescribable Peace. As a seasoned church planter and now leader of the largest church planting organization in North America, Vance seeks to inspire people to join in God’s eternal, redemptive mission of making disciples, by multiplying the Church all over North America, that the nations may come to know Him.  Vance and his wife Kristie have four children and four grandchildren, and live in Georgia.

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J.A. Medders

General Editor New Churches

J.A. (Jeff) Medders is the Director of Theology and Content for Send Network and General Editor for New Churches. He is also an author, a preacher, and a PhD student in biblical spirituality at Southern Seminary, studying Charles Spurgeon and the Song of Songs. Jeff is a native Houstonian, where he lives with his wife and two kids.

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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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