A pastor friend of mine mentioned a book she was reading “Go Big lead your church to explosive growth” by Bill Easum and Bil Cornelius. This is one of the best books on church growth I have ever read.
Have you ever thought about how fast the early church was growing? It went from 120 members to 20,000 in one year and it was just getting warmed up the first year because greater things happened after that.
What was the reason for this amazing growth? They caught Jesus’ vision. In Mark 16:15 it says: And then he told them, “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone.”
The early church embraced this vision and as a result experienced crazy growth. There were no evangelism committees, no church growth studies, not even a committee to study future church needs. The early church only had people who caught the vision, who saw the mission field as the entire world and who believed that with God’s help they would reach the world.
Does this same vision and passion exist in your church? The church I attend spends 97% of it’s time and resources internally and I think that is true with most churches. Maybe it’s time we regained the same passion the early church had for reaching out.
In Mark 16:15 Jesus commanded us to: “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone.” When the early church obeyed this commandment the results were “ And each day the Lord added to their fellowship those who were being saved.” Act 2:47
