The Vision of Multiply

Multiply exists to identify, enable, and unleash Christ-centred and gospel-driven workers and churches across denominations, throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. We are not a denomination, but we exist to network with Christians, churches, and denominations around New Zealand to promote the Good News across our land.

identify 

We help churches identify faithful Christians for ministry-training (apprenticeships). We also provide thorough assessment for potential church planters as we raise the profile of local-church ministry training, which we believe leads to increased church-planting efforts.

enable 

We want to equip churches through training days and conferences so that they train effective apprentices and raise up church planters. We connect churches together to share ideas and urge each other on for the gospel. We want to encourage generous collaboration between churches for Christ’s sake.

unleash 

Multiply wants to provide coaching to pastors and other church leaders, so that new churches and existing churches become thriving communities where believers are equipped for service and new church-plants are birthed.

Doctrine

We are a network of evangelical churches with a reformed heritage deeply committed to God’s mission to evangelise the church into existence. We stand with Christians who have gone before us in our understanding of those Scriptures as expressed in the Christian creeds such as the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed and the Athanasian Creed.

God

There is one unique and eternal God, who exists in an everlasting loving relationship of Father, Son and Spirit – one God in three persons.

God is sovereign in all things: including creation, revelation, redemption, judgement and the establishing of His kingdom. As sovereign loving creator and redeemer, He is worthy of all glory, honour and praise.

God became one of us in the person of Jesus Christ and took on Himself the consequences of human sin. He died and was buried. On the third day He rose from the dead bodily and is now exalted as ruler over all. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and is now gathering people to spend eternity with Him

The Spirit works to illuminate believers’ minds to grasp the truth of the Bible, producing in them His fruit, granting them His gifts and empowering them for service. Their use is determined by the principle of building the church.

Humanity

Men and women together are created in the image of God and, therefore, enjoy a unique dignity in creation and a unique relationship with God. Tragically, human nature is universally sinful since the Fall and all are guilty before God, leaving us under the wrath and condemnation of God.

We are unable, without the prior regenerative work of God’s Spirit, to turn ourselves to God.

Church

The visible church is the gathering of believers around Christ in His word. It is a community of people intended by God to bear witness to Him and actively seek the extension of His rule.

Our statement of belief is outlined in more detail here