Spiritual Reproduction

Grows from intimacy with God and love evangelism

_{…and what you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others. Join with me in suffering, like a good soldier of Jesus Christ.}

_{^{– 2 Timothy 2:2-3}}

On nearly every trip to West Africa, current YLI Coaches introduce me to new young men and women who have adopted YLI’s way of discipleship. Some are university students who are being discipled by our most recent generation of Coaches.  

Working alongside five generations of Coaches over the last 17 years has allowed me to witness the miraculous power and exponential growth of disciple making. There was a time I was able to name all of the leaders involved with YLI. Those days are long gone. 

In the same way that Jesus gave the Great Commission to his disciples right before He physically departed the earth, Paul wrote the letter of second Timothy as final instructions before his martyrdom. In 2T22, Paul commissions Timothy not only to remain faithful to God and fruitful in ministry, but to multiply their faithfulness  and fruitfulness into the lives of others (who will also do the same). Spiritual multiplication doesn’t just happen. It requires intentionality. Spiritual multiplication will not occur in the absence of intimacy with God and incarnational evangelism.

The spread of the gospel through spiritual multiplication is always the end goal of YLI. It is our ultimate objective. It is how we gauge our effectiveness. We strive to be a part of God’s mission in the world the way that Jesus, the twelve apostles, Paul, Timothy, and the cloud of witnesses who came before us have done over the last 20 centuries.