Releasing God-given Potential

We’ve pushed long and hard making our church “grow.” Now, as we are awaiting diagnostic results, to discover how to take those square wheels off, we are looking into the future seeing the Church in which

• the leadership is committed heart and soul to church growth,
  
• every Christian is using his or hers gifts to edify the church;
  
• members are living out the faith with power and contagious enthusiasm;
  
• church structures are evaluated on whether they serve the growth of the church or not;
  
• worship services are a high point of the week for majority of the congregation;
  
• the loving and healing power of Christian fellowship can be experienced in small groups;
  
• all Christians, according to their gifts, help to fulfill the Great Commission;
  
• the Love of Christ permeates all church activities.

Growth of our church family will not be achieved by introducing new methods or changing what we do, but by improving the quality of all elements essential to Christian service, moving from lookwarmness into fiery living. With quality increased the quantitative growth will be a “by-product.”

Let’s allow “God designed” automatism within the church to grow our church all by itself. (Mark 4:26-29)