job to go into the community and find out people ’ s needs and bring the needs to us .” For example , someone could come to me and say , “ I met a single mom in the grocery store line who can ’ t pay rent this month or can ’ t pay for her groceries , she needs $ 700 .” So , I personally will never give that lady $ 700 , but I will give $ 700 to that person in my church and say , “ You elevate your priesthood , and you go give her the money . And when you give her the money , I want you to look her in the eye and I want you to tell her that Jesus has not forgotten about her and that Jesus loves her , and I want you to pray in the name of Jesus over her .” So that ’ s what we ’ re trying to do , we ’ re trying to take the money , give it to the people , have the people elevate their priesthood by giving into the community . We ’ ve been able to pay for hospital bills , we ’ ve paid for surgeries , we ’ ve paid mortgages , anything that comes in we try to give away .
[ WM ] That is absolutely beautiful and riveting . I really love how KingsPorch is defining church . With so many churches redefining the Gospel by their demographics , their programs , or even their political ideology , y ’ all seem to be about doing the work of Jesus . Any thoughts on this ?
[ Jesse ] I have a lot of thoughts on this ! First of all , there ’ s a buzzword right now about the house church movement as if it ’ s a new
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concept . It ’ s not a new concept , and in fact it ’ s the oldest concept that there is for church . I don ’ t know if you ’ ve read Francis Chan ’ s book called Letters to the Church , but everything we ’ re doing is based off of what Francis is doing in San Francisco . In fact , Janet and I went out there and stayed with Francis and Lisa for a few days and just asked them how to do all this . Francis ’ s big deal is how many times the New Testament says , “ They will know we are Christians by our love ” and how in the modern Western church we don ’ t love each other because we don ’ t really know each other . You come say ‘ hi ’ on Sunday and then you leave .
So , what we ’ re trying to do is have a small
group of people who actually love each other and actually share things , meals , money . And when it gets to about thirty people that ’ s pretty much a max on a house church , then we try to multiply once a year . Multiplication is crazy , but this is our third year , so we have four right now . Next year will be eight , and then sixteen . If you do that for ten years , then on year eleven you will have one thousand and twenty-four churches . And here ’ s the crazy part , if you do that for twenty years , you ’ ll have five hundred and twenty thousand churches . Each one of those houses averages twenty people . That ’ s nine million people in twenty years ! When people ask what the goal is of KingsPorch , I always tell them our goal is to reach nine million people over the next twenty years , for the name of Jesus , and to give all of our money away . People think I ’ m crazy , but I truly believe that is what Jesus ’ s M . O . was .
Think about this , if we have nine million people that are giving all of their money away to the poor and to the needy , we wouldn ’ t need the government to do it , we wouldn ’ t need them to have welfare , we wouldn ’ t need social security . So that ’ s where the political aspect comes in , there are people on my little porch who were from Make America Great Again and Trump hats to far left liberals . And it hadn ’ t been all easy , but we want to be a place where people from both sides are welcome , because our