[Digging4Truth]

It is the model that plays out.

Except for that rare exception most churches reach a place where they top out on growth.

If a church has 50, 500 or 5000 some things remain constant.

Your average member will have a core group of friends not generally exceeding 20-25 people.

The apostles turned their world upside down. They saw great revival. And they did it from house to house and probably with small groups not so dissimilar to the core group of 20-25 people that continues to manifest itself no matter how big the "church" gets.

What could be a growth stifling element of today's church is that we don't embrace the natural element of that small group and we attempt to force the many small groups that are already intact into one larger group.

Like a hurricane... there comes a time when the mass itself begins to work against itself.

I think that revivals best chance will come when we let go of our dreams of a big "church" and embrace the concept of a big move of God and finally live what we chant all the time anyway... revival comes when we move beyond these four walls.