In the opening message of our new series, Pastor Damon Davis takes a phrase we all remember from the 90s and turns it toward the kingdom: we don't die, we multiply. Working from John 12:24-25, Acts 2:40-41, and Mark 4:20, he shows that multiplication is not a bonus for advanced believers; it is the mandate God placed on every one of His children from Genesis forward.

Jesus saw himself as a grain of wheat that had to fall into the ground before it could produce much fruit. Peter, who once denied Jesus three times to save his own life, later stood and preached one sermon that took the church from 120 people to 3,000 in a single day. The difference in both cases was a willingness to die to fear. As Pastor Damon puts it, fear is the assassin to multiplication, and fear never calls God a liar out loud; it just lives like He is one.

If you have been praying, serving, and witnessing and it still feels like nothing is increasing, this message is for you. God said thirty, sixty, and a hundred times what was sown. He said times, not plus. Learn how to stop negotiating with a promise God has never broken, and walk away with one clear assignment: one name, one invitation, one move.

Collective Community Church is a disciple-making community church in Birmingham, Alabama. Worship Together, Win Together.