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Multiplication: Passing on a Message and a Mission

There is a growing trend within the Church, rightly so, toward mentorship or coaching of our leaders. The idea is that great programs are not effective without great people leading those programs. Associated with this focus on mentorship is a theory some people call “spiritual multiplication”, which attempts to go one step further in mentoring leaders to multiply themselves into others who would be able to do the same. Spiritual multiplication is considered a theory because it depends on the precarious “if”: if one disciple multiplies into two others.

To actualize the extraordinary potential of spiritual multiplication, we must go beyond the theory and begin living out of the principles that make multiplication possible.

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André Regnier is co-founder of Catholic Christian Outreach (CCO), a movement that has been engaged in university evangelization and discipleship for over three decades in Canada and abroad. He is currently working on his Masters in Theology from the Augustine Institute. He has written three books: Catholic Missionary Identity; Five Tenets to Renew the World; and most recently, Clear and Simple: How to Have Conversations that Lead to Conversion.

This article is from The Catechetical Review (Online Edition ISSN 2379-6324) and may be copied for catechetical purposes only. It may not be reprinted in another published work without the permission of The Catechetical Review by contacting [email protected]

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