Faith Renewed: Multiplication

God's call to be fruitful and multiply runs from Genesis through Abraham's descendants and straight into the Great Commission. Paul and the early disciples didn't just plant churches and move on — they returned, strengthened, and stayed connected, and those churches planted still more churches. That pattern continues today: the Global Methodist Church has grown to more than 3,000 congregations since 2022, many planted where following Jesus is costly or where no church existed. Yet in the U.S. roughly 4,000 churches are planted each year while about 3,700 close, even though church plants reach the unchurched more effectively and those that launch daughter churches early grow significantly larger. The message closes by asking what it looks like for RiverStone to become a church that plants churches across the Four Corners and beyond.