Contents

1. Where
2. What is a goal? (according to SMART)
3. Teamwork: Make the goal your goal
4. Give God room to multiply
5. Multiplication Checklist

1. Where

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Image: Alice and the fork in the road

Alice to the Cheshire Cat: “Would you please tell me which way I should go from here?”

The Cat replies: “That depends largely on where you want to go.”

Alice says: “I don’t really care where…”

The Cat: “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”

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We know our destination:

• God wants to spread His glory through people on this earth.
• He has given us the command to go into the world and make disciples.
• Cell groups are a wonderful way to make disciples and achieve God’s goals.
• The goal of cell groups is cell division.

Cell division is teamwork with God

(1 Cor 3:6)6 My role was to plant the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it; but it was God —not us—who made it grow.

(1 Cor 3:9)9 So then we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

• Growth through cell division is a miracle worked by God
• We also have a part in this. Paul planted and Apollos watered.

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Image: Imagine a farmer who goes out to the field in the spring and says:

“I hope God gives me a good harvest,” but he doesn’t sow any seeds, doesn’t water, and doesn’t prepare the soil.

• Would we say: That is faith?
• Or rather: Is that negligence?

A wise farmer who wants to see fruit

1. sets a concrete goal,
2. creates a clear plan of action,
3. removes obstacles,
4. works to meet all the necessary conditions so that fruit can grow,
5. andtrusts in God to grant growth. </aside>

2. What is a goal? (according to SMART):