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The true measure of a vibrant movement is not how many seats a church can fill on Sunday, but how many discipled missionaries it can deploy throughout the week. Challenging consumeristic church metrics, Lewis champions an apostolic sending culture where planting new churches and activating lay missionaries is the core priority. A reader learns to redesign organizational structures, celebrate the loss of top leaders when they are sent, and build church networks driven by rapid multiplication.
Dhati Lewis is the founding pastor of Blueprint Church in Atlanta, the founder and president of the Rebuild Initiative (MyBLVD), and the former Vice President and President of the North American Mission Board's Send Network. Born and raised in California as the son of an NFL player, he came to Texas on a football scholarship to the University of North Texas, where an emerging call to ministry — through football chaplaincy and college ministry — set him on a path toward urban disciple-making. After a Master's in Cross-Cultural Ministry at Dallas Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, he moved to Atlanta in 2009 with roughly twenty-five others to plant Blueprint Church on the conviction that the church "is not like family; it is family," and that disciple-making — not church-planting — is the true engine of multiplication.
