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Originally Posted by Ehud
To hear my pastor tell it, he wants souls in the pews so he has a chance to preach the gospel to them. The other pastors seem content to preach to the same 20 people each week.
Just so no one reads this and misconstrues it, my pastor does not think attendance numbers are the end all be all. But if the name of the game is preaching the gospel to as many people as possible and bringing them to repentance and baptizing them in Jesus name, then he is seeing better results than those calling him a compromiser.
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That's awesome! Now some Pastor's would disagree and say that church is for saints, not sinners. That sermons should be focused on the saved, not the lost. But that's another discussion.
A friend of mine from Bible school days was telling me of how the church he previously attended was growing by leaps and bounds. (He's since moved away from that area and attends a different UPC church) They remodeled their church to make more room in the sanctuary and within a year had to build a new building.
I asked what they were doing? It was around the same time that a couple other UPC churches had left the org and dropped the dress code, so I asked if his church did that. No, he said. I asked if Maddix or one of the Soul Winner Boot Camp evangelists were there. He said, no that isn't it either.
I asked, well then, what is it that your church is doing that is causing this incredible growth? He said he would think about it and get back to me. A couple days later we spoke and he said, the only thing he could think which was different than other churches he had attended or visited is that every week the Pastor would end his message with the Gospel (death, burial, resurrection) and New Birth. Without fail, the Gospel would be presented in the message and people responded to the Gospel.
He said, it's so simple. The Gospel demands a response - it's natural, so when it's presented to unsaved people, they respond.
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