Monday, July 9, 2012

Born to reproduce - "You can't have two until you have one."



If you do not have a copy of Dawson Trotman's Born to Reproduce, you can read it online by clicking HERE.  (You can also download and print it; it's seven pages.)


Please read How to Produce Reproducers, pages 20 - 25 in the booklet, or from the middle of page 3 to the middle of page 4 in the online document.

I love the story that starts this section. It is that of a young man, a young sailor, who wanted to be a discipler. He went after this whole group of guys, but it did not seem that he was getting anywhere. Trotman relates the story this way:

He came to me after a month of this and said, “Dawson, I can’t get any of these guys on the ship to get down to business.”

 I said to him, “Listen, you ask God to give you one. You can’t have two until you have one. Ask God to give you a man after your own heart.”

 He began to pray.

And then it happened -- it happened!

And from one came two, from two four, from four, eight -- and so on -- until 125 men were saved aboard this sailor's ship -- before it was sunk at Pearl Harbor.


When Born to Reproduce was first written, men from that ship were serving four continents as missionaries.

Will you ask God for your one?


All Scripture is taken from the NIV, 1984 edition, unless otherwise noted.
Quotes marked with an asterisk (*) are taken from : 
Trotman, Dawson. Born to Reproduce. Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2008. Print.

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