Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Matthew 28:18-20
Cultivating. What a wonderful word.
You can see it in the garden in the beginning. You can see it in the best relationships. It is an ongoing process that looks for fruit and does what it takes for the fruitful to be more fruitful.
We can make it complex, stick it on curriculum and have extensive training materials on it. If that really helps. Yet it should be about some simple things. Simple, not necessarily always easy, but simple.
We have received grace to follow the grace-giver. We encourage others to receive grace to follow the grace-giver. As we receive so we grow in receiving and enabling others to receive. That comes through becoming cultivators even as the Gardener cultivates.
I am excited to see believers growing in knowing the simple, though not always easy, task of cultivating cultivators.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
Life With CD 
This post is ten years old, it’ll still be worth a read in another ten! Cultivating cultivators, reproducing reproducers. All life does this, making more of the same, repeating a pattern that works: over and over and over again. Jesus in you, Jesus in me, Jesus in those we introduce him to. Glorious, glorious reproducing. Yay!
👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 Thank you for this, Chris! 😃 🙏🏾