What keeps a church from undertaking the same multiplication strategy on its own?
The simple answer is nothing! Churches can and do undertake a number of different multiplication strategies in order to reproduce and plant new churches. If they wanted to, they could also create a collaborative partnership out of those churches that they do plant in order to pool resources or create economies of scale. Ultimately, any church could recreate an underlying infrastructure similar to that of ELI in order to provide for the needs of a church planting collaboration. However, ELI feels that while this is possible, it is not the primary mission of any single church. Evangelical churches, as a part of their desire to reach lost people, should and often do have a heart for participating in church planting but maintaining an organization to serve the needs of a continually growing collaboration of churches is a full time undertaking in itself. This is exactly why ELI was created! ELI is dedicated to providing the underlying infrastructure as well as the funding needs for an ever-
