Rev. Zach Kingery

Last month, we focused on this truth: healthy disciples are everyday missionaries. If you haven’t already, read it here: Link   We were reminded that spiritual health is not measured by Sunday attendance, but by whether disciples are being formed to live sent: walking in holiness and making disciples where God is sending and/or has already placed them.   This month, we take the next logical step in understanding what it means to be a spiritually healthy, missional people as Methodists. For...

“As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you.”  John 20:21 My focus in the January Multiplication article was to set the tone for 2026. Read it here: Link This month, I press that same truth one step further: When leaders and disciples are healthy, they stop being consumers of Sunday morning content and begin living as sent people - everyday missionaries. The pattern of Scripture is clear: those who abide in Christ bear fruit - and fruit includes bold witness, disciple-making, and sending....

“By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.” John 15:8   As we begin a new year, many churches set goals, refine calendars, and plan initiatives. But if we are serious about becoming an Annual Conference where Every Church Plants, we must begin at a deeper level. Multiplication does not start with strategies or structures, it starts with spiritual health and spiritual health only comes from being connected to the Vine: Jesus Christ.     Healthy...