Have you watched your closets and drawers grow more disorganized and messy despite your best intentions? I have. I purchase something and add it to what is already there; as a result, I multiply my stuff without adding needed storage space and create a mess that makes it difficult to find anything. Let’s call it the multiplication principle. I have found that it applies to life and ministry just as it does my closets. Objectively observing ministry reveals the tendency to move away from simple, clean, and organized toward overloaded and difficult to navigate. We begin with focus, keeping things uncomplicated and easy to direct. Soon someone suggests a new…