I have recently been teaching on Evangelism in our local church setting. I have been emphasizing the power of one by one personal interaction with people. We can change a city, or the world by winning people to the Lord Jesus one at a time. Every time one person comes to Jesus it means one less person pushing the agenda of darkness and one more person releasing the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

This morning I was reading a piece written by Prince Handley. This is the tremendous truth he shared in his writing. If you could win 1,000 people to Jesus every day, how long do you think it would take to evangelize the whole world? At this time, the population of the world is about six (6) billion people. It would take you 16,427 years to reach every person (even at 1,000 every day!).

However, if you would lead only one person each year to Christ, and would really train them, here’s what would happen:

At the end of one year there would be two of you to take the “Good News” to others. If each of you would lead one person to Christ that next year, there would be four of you at the end of the second year to go tell the “Good News”. At this rate, it would only take you a little over 32 years to reach the rest of the world! (Even if the population increases to 8.5 billion, it would take only one extra year, or 33 years.)

This is why Jesus said, “Go, then to all peoples of the world and make them my disciples: baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember! I will be with you always, to the end of the age.”

That is the power of exponential growth. We read in Acts how believers were ADDED to the church. Then there is a tipping point by which Luke tells us that believers were MULTIPLYING in number. That is what we desire today.

Let’s go for it!