So you have a seed:  The Word of God.  If planted by a source of water and in good soil, it will sprout.  And grow.  The Psalms says that we will be like a tree bearing fruit in our time.

Christ expands on this subject in John 15: 5  "I am the vine, you are the branches.  He that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit:  for without me you can do nothing."  That's why you don't have to grunt and groan.  He does it all.  You're only responsibility is to abide in him.

Here Christ is talking not about a tree, but a vine.  In this case we are the branches.  Once again--fruit just happens.  Effortlessly.

Now when you have fruit, (love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance), it grows and ripens and drops to the ground.  And it is full of seeds:  God's Word, our testimony, the evidence of Christ in our lives.  And  an amazing thing happens.  New plants appear and grow and produce fruit.  And when it is working like God extended, the growth factor is exponential.  You get a church.

Dawson Trotman wrote a pamphlet called, "Born to Reproduce".  He contends that just exactly like we are physically born to reproduce, in the same way we are born spiritually to reproduce.

When I started this blog, I was in the book of Genesis and reminded you of the first words that God spoke to man:  "Be fruitful and multiply,...".  Now you get the full meaning of that command.