Domino Effect

Yesterday and today I'm working at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. As I was riding in the elevator after lunch yesterday, I noticed an ad hanging on the wall of the elevator. In large letters, it read, "Hundreds of lives were saved with one surgery." The ad explained that when a prominent oncology surgeon suffered an aortic aneurysm, a cardiac surgeon at Mount Sinai performed a life-saving surgery on him. Within 14 days, the oncology surgeon was back in the operating room saving lives.

Have you ever grasped the domino-like effect that your evangelism has on the world? When someone you've shared the Gospel with receives Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, you can't necessarily chalk that up to only one salvation. That person will likely go on and evangelize as well. When it comes to evangelism, we have "grandchildren" and "great-grandchildren" and so on.

One of my dreams as a pastor is to be at least a grandfather church planter. In other words, I want to multiply City on a Hill Church in such a way that someone from our church will plant a new church and then someone from that church will go on to plant another new church and so on.

You can never underestimate the domino effect that Christ has on the world through our lives!