What structure will multiply the number of disciples?
Jesus could have poured His life into the multitudes, but molded the character of 12 men instead so they could multiply themselves into 12 more individuals (men work with men, women with women, couples with couples and youth with youth). The number 12 symbolized government, as there are 12 months to a year, days are governed by 2 periods of 12 hours each, 12 tribes in Israel and King Solomon appointed 12 governors. Beginning with a church in Bogota, Columbia, which started with 12 people in 1991 and has multiplied to 30,000 cell groups, G-12 has been established to win souls and make disciples so they can be sent into the harvest fields of the world. Paul embraced this same mission starting with 12 men in Ephesus and then training them in the school of Tyrannus so that in 2 years, all who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord (Acts 19:7-10). Extraordinary miracles occurred when people abandoned their magic arts, burned articles of witchcraft and forsook the worship of Artemis. As a