Church growth is one of the most controversial topics amongst ecclesiastical groupings. There is a fine line in between church growth according to Gods will along with growth according to the human will. Several queries have been raised about what church advertising really means.
Does it mean just a rise in numbers or is the idea the growth of each person, spiritually? To answer this question we will need to go returning to the Word of Lord. Jesus and his apostles worked out teaching and speaking the Gospel and earning the numbers into the church, Acts 2:47 "And the Head of the family added to the chapel daily such as ought to be saved". But they also emphasised the importance of expanding personally, Heb 5:13-14 "For everyone that uses milk is unskilful inside the Word of righteousness: for he is a toddler. But strong beef belongs to them which can be of full age".
Some groups have sensed that increasing the variety of members in the church is unnecessary but then what about the commission of Christ? Matthew 28:19 "Go consequently and make disciples coming from all nations, baptizing them inside the name of the Father and of the Kid and of the Almost holy Spirit, and instructing them to obey anything that I have commanded an individual." The Gospel is for everybody.
The church is not a super exclusive golf club that has a very limited patrons. Churches which have certainly not added to their numbers have just died out or faded in to oblivion due to lack of folks. But the church, your body of Christ, is not just the building but the individuals. It is the people who attract others into the entire body of Christ.
Several churches do not increase drastically in figures but the members themselves could be growing and living a Christ centred life that keeps the church in existence. They are constantly hitting new heights spiritually. Lower numbers do not mean that they are stagnant. Large congregations that are spiritually dead are much less acceptable than scaled-down congregations that are alive within the Lord.
God offers given different gifts of people to the church. He has given evangelists (the planters of the seeds), teachers (to h2o the seed) as well as prophets to exhort and encourage the body of Jesus. Each of these people have a purpose to be fulfilled inside the church and no function can be ignored. There has to be a balance within the development of the church.
Does it mean just a rise in numbers or is the idea the growth of each person, spiritually? To answer this question we will need to go returning to the Word of Lord. Jesus and his apostles worked out teaching and speaking the Gospel and earning the numbers into the church, Acts 2:47 "And the Head of the family added to the chapel daily such as ought to be saved". But they also emphasised the importance of expanding personally, Heb 5:13-14 "For everyone that uses milk is unskilful inside the Word of righteousness: for he is a toddler. But strong beef belongs to them which can be of full age".
Some groups have sensed that increasing the variety of members in the church is unnecessary but then what about the commission of Christ? Matthew 28:19 "Go consequently and make disciples coming from all nations, baptizing them inside the name of the Father and of the Kid and of the Almost holy Spirit, and instructing them to obey anything that I have commanded an individual." The Gospel is for everybody.
The church is not a super exclusive golf club that has a very limited patrons. Churches which have certainly not added to their numbers have just died out or faded in to oblivion due to lack of folks. But the church, your body of Christ, is not just the building but the individuals. It is the people who attract others into the entire body of Christ.
Several churches do not increase drastically in figures but the members themselves could be growing and living a Christ centred life that keeps the church in existence. They are constantly hitting new heights spiritually. Lower numbers do not mean that they are stagnant. Large congregations that are spiritually dead are much less acceptable than scaled-down congregations that are alive within the Lord.
God offers given different gifts of people to the church. He has given evangelists (the planters of the seeds), teachers (to h2o the seed) as well as prophets to exhort and encourage the body of Jesus. Each of these people have a purpose to be fulfilled inside the church and no function can be ignored. There has to be a balance within the development of the church.
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