Chapter 3
What Churches Should
Concentrate On
“But you shall receive power
when the Holy Spirit has come upon you;
and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem,
and in all Judea and Samaria,
and to the end of the earth.”
— Acts 1:8 (NKJV)
And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying,
“Be saved from this perverse generation.”
Then those who gladly received his word were baptized;
and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.
And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine
and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Then fear came upon every soul, and
many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.
— Acts 2:40-43 (NKJV)
But the end of all things is at hand;
therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.
And above all things have fervent love for one another,
for “love will cover a
multitude of sins.”
Be
hospitable to one another without grumbling.
As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another,
as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
If anyone speaks, let him
speak as the oracles of God.
If anyone ministers, let
him do it as with the ability
which God supplies,
that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ,
to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
— 1 Peter 4:7-11
(NKJV)
Many churches will need to increase
the breadth of what they do and improve performance in some of what they do now
for a 2,000 percent nation to be established. Before describing what churches
should concentrate on and explaining what I mean by the prior sentence, we
should always remember that Christ leads the church. Let me also note that
human leadership is unusually important for a church to be able concentrate in
the most fruitful ways.
In setting their
agendas, churches are led in a variety of ways beyond what the Bible and the
Holy Spirit direct: some by higher human authorities, some by pastors and
ministers, and some by the congregation or parts of it. While I am sure that
the Bible and the Holy Spirit are perfect sources of Godly wisdom, in dealing
with humans there are bound to be misunderstandings and errors. God knows that
and forgives. His grace in this regard should not draw us away from seeking His
wisdom so that we can do better.
In sharing my
observations in this chapter, I pray that I have been faithful and accurate in
expressing God’s will. In addition, I am in no way judging what any churches or
their leaders are doing now. Leaders should simply pray about this chapter’s information
to receive guidance from the Bible and the Holy Spirit, should study what the
Bible has to say on the subject, and should take action according to that
Divine guidance.
Many Christians
would agree that a church should provide for at least the following needs:
• Treat all with
love. It’s commanded by Jesus in the Bible. Some may not receive love from
other people.
• Teach the
young and adults who lack knowledge about the Bible’s contents, especially
concerning what His Word says about receiving the free gift of Salvation.
• Encourage
of-age congregants and visitors to repent their sins, believe in the risen
Savior, and follow Jesus as Lord so they will obtain the free gift of
Salvation.
• Remind
congregants to invite and to bring family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers to
church services and activities.
• Tend to the
spiritual needs of the congregation and visitors.
• Approve of
living in ways commanded by the Bible.
• Rebuke saved
people who are stuck in some repeated sins.
• Provide
opportunities for fellowship with saved people.
• Serve the
physical needs of the congregation and its poorest and most vulnerable
neighbors.
• Support
foreign missions through prayer, working visits, and gifts of needed items and
funds.
If a church
limits its official activities to this list, there’s a problem: Most people in
the congregation won’t be as fruitful for the Lord as they could be. Let me
begin explaining why I say that by quoting Jesus as He commented on what the
parable of the sower means:
“The sower sows
the word. And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. When
they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in
their hearts. These likewise are the ones sown on stony ground who, when they
hear the word, immediately receive it with gladness; and they have no root in
themselves, and so endure only for a time. Afterward, when tribulation or
persecution arises for the word’s sake, immediately they stumble. Now these are
the ones sown among thorns; they are the ones who hear the word, and the
cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other
things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. But these are the
ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit:
some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.” (Mark 4:14-20, NKJV)
While Jesus
clearly told us that many people who learn about the Bible and Salvation aren’t
going to make good use of that knowledge, He also told us that some Christians
can be exponentially fruitful for Him in sharing the Good News. Building on His
observation, it seems that churches have substantial opportunities to help
people learn the Gospel, become saved, fulfill their Godly callings, and
produce by their efforts exponential increases in His influence.
Such potential
for extraordinary fruitfulness lies within us all. Churches have marvelous
opportunities to focus on increasing fruitfulness. I address this subject in
detail for individuals in 2,000 Percent
Living. (You can read a detailed summary of the book’s lessons in the
Introduction to 2,000 Percent Living,
as well as specific instructions for implementation in the individual lessons.
We also look at these points in Chapter 15 of The 2,000 Percent Nation.)
Let me briefly
summarize that book’s prescriptions for individual Christians:
Lesson One: Accept Salvation
by repenting of your sins, believing Jesus is God’s Son and in His resurrection
from the dead, and giving your life to Jesus Christ to do His will, not yours
(or rededicate your life to Him if you have accepted Salvation but have not
been walking with Him). Start every day by praising and thanking the Lord; repenting
any sins you have committed; praying for what is righteous that you want done
in the name of Jesus; and studying the Bible. Attend church whenever possible;
make a weekly written commitment of added ways to follow His direction; and continually
witness to others about your faith, seeking to help lead at least twenty people
to whom you have been speaking to choose to accept Salvation.
Lesson Two: Cleanse your
mind of distractions, accusations, worries, fears, and annoyances through
twice-daily meditation.
Lesson Three: Pick better life objectives through prayer
and consultation with your family and friends.
Lesson Four: Increase by at
least a factor of twenty the time you spend on your most important goals for
serving the Lord.
Lesson Five: Expand your ability
to read, comprehend, and remember by at least twenty times.
Lesson Six: Select reading
materials that will help you identify and understand the future best practices
(the best ways anyone in the world will do that or any similar activity using
natural means in the next five years) and the ideal best practices (the best
ways anyone can ever hope to do that or any similar activity by using
technology that will be available in the next five years) in those areas where
you want to gain Godly breakthrough results.
Lesson Seven: Learn how to
identify stalls (bad thinking habits), to eliminate and to replace stalls with
good thinking habits, and to design and to implement 2,000 percent solutions to
serve others on God’s behalf by producing your first one.
Lesson Eight: Teach someone
else how to identify and to eliminate stalls and to design and to implement
2,000 percent solutions that are attuned to the Holy Spirit.
Lesson Nine: Apply the 2,000
percent solution process each year to one additional important activity that
the Holy Spirit leads you to improve.
Lesson Ten: Repeat the 2,000
percent solution process annually to enhance benefits from the solutions you
developed by at least an additional twenty times.
Lesson Eleven: Link together
at least seven complementary 2,000 percent solutions to create multiplied,
exponential Godly results.
Lesson Twelve: Increase the
benefits of what you do by twenty times to assist some of those who cannot help
you.
Lesson Thirteen: Approach
others with fresh interest, warm gratitude, and a deep desire to draw twenty
times closer to them.
Lesson Fourteen: Examine your
conduct before acting to see if it will be pleasing to God.
Let me now
connect these fourteen lessons to what churches can do to increase these
fruitfulness-enhancing actions by congregants. I focus first on helping to lead
unsaved people to gain Salvation. This is a subject that, with my wonderful
coauthors, is described in Witnessing
Made Easy and Ways You Can Witness,
the books that record the best ways to improve witnessing based on the global
contest that the Holy Spirit directed me to sponsor. I also elaborate on how
best to teach churches how to be more effective in nurturing these
witnessing-related activities in Chapter One of Help Wanted. Let me share some of that
information beginning with the important role of in-congregation evangelists in
teaching and encouraging witnessing.
Concentrate on Teaching and
Encouraging Witnessing
with In-Congregation Evangelists
For you will be His witness to all men of what you have
seen and heard.
— Acts 22:15 (NKJV)
Before sponsoring the global contest to find great ways to
help save more souls in 2006, I had never heard of or met an in-congregation
evangelist. I wondered what such evangelists did. Just in case you don’t know
much about this role, I’ll share what I learned.
While many evangelists are itinerant
as Jesus was, some churches have paid staff or volunteer congregation members
who focus on encouraging and teaching witnessing to everyone in their church.
Some in-congregation evangelists also spend a little of their time helping
other churches to identify and prepare their own in-congregation evangelists.
Why do some Christians benefit
from being encouraged and taught to witness by in-congregation evangelists?
Without such help, few American Christians do much Gospel sharing. Surveys
report that about 3 percent of church-attending, born-again Christians in the United States
regularly share their faith with unsaved people. In addition, about 90 percent
of saved Americans never witness to people outside their families except by
trying to be an example of righteous living.
During the Salvation-encouraging
contest, I was pleased to learn that Jubilee Worship Center (JWC), located in Hobart, Indiana,
had overcome much of its congregation’s witnessing inactivity. This feat was
accomplished by devoting five minutes during each church service and activity
to in-congregation evangelists, Jim and Carla Barbarossa, and their team of
fire starters (witnessing encouragers and teachers who assist the evangelists)
sharing Jesus’ command for all to witness, teaching effective ways to do so,
and encouraging continual sharing of faith and testimonies with unsaved people.
Bishop Dale P. Combs, JWC’s pastor, estimates that the congregation’s
witnessing activity increased by more than twenty times due to having the
in-congregation evangelists and fire starters present the five-minute tutoring
sessions.
As a result of appointing these
people and engaging in the encouragement and learning activities, about 40
percent of the JWC congregation regularly shared testimonies and spoke about
Salvation with unsaved people. More than half of the congregation has prepared
written testimonies that have been assembled into a book, Real Life Stories, that
has been given to tens of thousands of people around the world who don’t know
Jesus as their Lord and Savior (to read these testimonies for free online, go
to www.step-by-step.org). Even people who had been afraid to share their faith
have become comfortable with sharing these books of testimonies and talking
about their lessons.
You may be wondering why having
in-congregation evangelists conducting learning sessions would make such a big
difference. Consider what Paul had to say in Ephesians 4:7-16 (NKJV):
But to each one of us grace was
given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore He says:
“When He ascended on high,
He led captivity captive,
And gave gifts to men.”
He led captivity captive,
And gave gifts to men.”
(Now this, “He ascended” — what does it
mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who
descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might
fill all things.) And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some
prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of
the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of
God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with
every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of
deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things
into Him who is the head — Christ — from whom the whole body, joined and knit
together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by
which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of
itself in love.
As Paul indicates, evangelism is a spiritual gift separate
from being a pastor or a teacher of the Bible. For the body of Christ to
operate optimally, all the gifts of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors,
and teachers are needed. When a congregation is operating without the benefit
of an in-congregation evangelist, a specialized teacher, its ability to witness
will not be fully activated and developed. For a fuller explanation of the need
for all the spiritual gifts to help save more souls, please read the Pastor’s
Prologue by Bishop Dale P. Combs in Witnessing
Made Easy (available to read for free at www.jubileeworshipcenter.com and
www.step-by-step.org, and in an inexpensive electronic Kindle version on
Amazon.com).
Christian witnessing is an
activity that the enemy who is in the world wants to minimize. Surveys indicate
that this opposition works in a variety of ways:
• Many Christians don’t realize
that Jesus has called them to share the Gospel.
• Due to their ignorance of the
Bible, some wrongly believe that only evangelists and pastors are ever supposed
to engage in Salvation-related presentations to and discussions with unsaved
people.
• Some Christians so strongly
favor famous evangelists presenting the Gospel of Salvation at large crusade
events that they oppose their churches directly engaging in any other
witnessing activities.
• Some of the Christians who know
they should witness don’t because they are fearful of what could happen when
they do.
• Many Christians who are willing
to witness either misunderstand or are confused about the best ways to do so,
reducing their activity and effectiveness.
An anointed in-congregation evangelist can offset much of
this opposition with Bible studies, inspiration, encouragement, and training,
helping most Christians to go from being ignorant about witnessing or afraid to
witness to being well-prepared, confident, active, and joyful witnesses. You
can read the details of how to identify anointed in-congregation evangelists
and the tasks they should do in Witnessing
Made Easy, where you will also find directions for contacting coauthors
Bishop Dale P. Combs and Jim Barbarossa for more assistance by telephone and
e-mail.
An in-congregation evangelist can
make further exponential increases in fruitfulness by spending some time each
week teaching pastors and those with the gift of evangelism the potential
benefits of and best methods for teaching congregational witnessing. As Witnessing Made Easy describes, Jim and
Carla Barbarossa have been very active in sharing their knowledge and
experiences through the organization they co-founded, Step by Step Ministries.
As a result of the Barbarossas’ efforts, hundreds of churches around the world
have added effective in-congregation evangelists and established witnessing
development tutoring programs. My prayer is that every in-congregation
evangelist will help lead at least another hundred churches to select anointed
in-congregation evangelists who lead five-minute teachings about witnessing
during each church service and activity.
Lest I give you the impression
that only such teaching and encouragement by in-congregation evangelist need be
added, let me share some other valuable ways to conduct a church’s witnessing
activities.
Add Six Other Dimensions of
Teaching and Encouraging Witnessing
But do not forget to do good and to share,
for with such sacrifices God is well
pleased.
— Hebrews 13:16 (NKJV)
The aforementioned contest was also blessed by receiving
many other fine suggestions for improving witnessing. While implementation
details are included in Ways You Can
Witness, the following lists six of those methods:
1. Christians make increasing
weekly written commitments to witnessing activities.
2. Establish low-cost Christian
radio networks and stations providing music and programs that appeal to unsaved
people where no programming exists for that purpose. If a church’s locale has
plenty of such stations, a church should support this activity where such
stations are needed.
3. Make available at all times
and to all people witnesses who are well equipped to discuss Salvation.
4. Ask for more kinds of help
from more people in more ways to expand witnessing.
5. Serve pressing, unmet physical
and emotional needs of unsaved people and gain opportunities to witness after
aiding them.
6. Seek out and witness to
unsaved people with secret sins that deeply embarrass them.
One of the most
amazing lessons of this contest is that all eight improvement methods
(in-congregation evangelists teaching and inspiring a congregation, training
in-congregation evangelists in other congregations, and these six listed
methods) can be conducted by a single church. When such a combination is
implemented, the improvement in how many people receive and how frequently they
hear the Gospel of Salvation grows in truly astonishing, exponential ways.
Let me spell out
this Godly multiplication for you. If one such method multiplies witnessing by
twenty times, then two such complementary methods increase witnessing by 400
times, three methods by 8,000 times, four methods by 160,000 times, five
methods by 3.2 million times, six methods by 64 million times, seven methods by
1.28 billion times, and eight methods by 25.6 billion times.
This math means
that a single church in each country employing all these methods effectively to
support witnessing can expect to provide the basis for enough revival to change
a whole nation! Wow!!
Some churches
may not want to do all of these activities. Acting on that desire is a big
mistake. Each method not employed reduces the overall impact of the church’s
total efforts by 96 percent. As a result, a church not doing any one of these
things is operating at less than 0.0000001 percent of the potential that God
has placed in that congregation. By adding only one activity, a church is still
operating at only 0.0000001 percent. With two activities, a church is
fulfilling just 0.000002 percent of its potential. Is that how you want to
serve God?
Naturally, no
church can accomplish so many things at first. It’s perfectly appropriate to
start with one highly fruitful witnessing-improvement activity and to add
others later. In most cases, the right first step will be to appoint an
anointed in-congregation evangelist and to provide five minutes for that person
to speak at each church service and activity. Let’s now look at how other
congregational ministries can become more fruitful.
Establish Each Necessary Type of
Congregational Ministry
and Develop 2,000 Percent Cubed
Solutions for Them
And say to Archippus,
“Take heed to the ministry which you
have received in the Lord,
that you may fulfill it.”
— Colossians 4:17 (NKJV)
Pastors have told me that the work required for the
congregational ministries they wish to expand and new ministries they would
like to establish always greatly exceeds the time available from Christians who
are willing to volunteer and faithfully serve in loving ways. After much prayer
and receiving guidance from the Holy Spirit, pastors make painful decisions to
increase and establish just some of the many desirable ministries while they
continually offer prayers for more volunteers.
To understand the potential to
accomplish more, consider the behavior of people who live near a nice beach
during warm weather. Unless a storm threatens, most people who can go to the
beach will find a way to visit, even if just for long enough to enjoy looking
at the scene and listening to the water’s movement. Many will spend every spare
moment there. Some will invite friends who live elsewhere to join them. Their
hearts are fully committed to visiting and enjoying the beach.
What if Christians were drawn to
volunteer for congregational ministries that their pastors favor with as much
enthusiasm and frequency as beach lovers enjoy their favorite stretch of sand?
If such were the case, there would be many more volunteers and resources
available for Godly ministries to share Christ’s love.
A good starting point for
expanding volunteer time devoted to congregational ministries is to teach the
fourteen lessons for individual Christians listed earlier in this chapter to
those in the congregation who want to become more fruitful for the Lord. If called
by the Holy Spirit to improve personal effectiveness, the pastor or
in-congregation evangelist might find this learning to be helpful and could
then testify to its value. Someone who has personally applied those lessons
could provide tutoring support for others who need a helping hand.
By the end of Lesson Three, most
people would have found a calling to serve the Lord. Many of such callings
could provide potential leaders for existing and new congregational ministries.
Then, in going through lessons four through fourteen, capacity to lead and
accomplish more would increase, as informed by the Holy Spirit. Soon, such
leaders in training would be in a position to help other potential leaders to
increase their individual capacities in being fruitful for the Lord.
As an example of what’s possible,
let’s look at increasing Biblical knowledge within a congregation. Surely,
that’s part of God’s will. Although knowledge doesn’t automatically translate
into doing the right thing, at least the risk of ignorantly doing the wrong
thing is reduced by having church attendees become more Biblically
knowledgeable.
How could a congregation’s
Biblical knowledge be most usefully measured? Before seeking measurements of
effectiveness in following God’s will, it’s always a good idea to pray for
guidance from the Holy Spirit and to investigate what the Bible has to say on
the subject. You may well receive better ideas about measurements to use
concerning Biblical knowledge than mine from the Holy Spirit and from your
Bible reading. Nevertheless, to encourage your investigations and thinking and
to help me to explain what a 2,000 cubed solution is, I’ll pose the following
measurement-related questions:
• How many people know the
essential elements of what the Bible says about receiving Christ’s free gift of
Salvation?
• How many Christians know how to
deepen and strengthen their relationships with Jesus Christ after accepting
Salvation?
• How many saved people know the
difference between sinning and not sinning in their typical daily activities?
• How many of those who have
received Salvation know how to repent when they sin?
• How many born-again Christians
know what the Bible says they should pray for and what they should not pray
for?
• How many believers know what
the Bible tells us about how to relate to people who aren’t Christians?
• How many people who are saved
know what the Bible tells us about how to behave toward a fellow Christian who
is observed to be sinning?
• How many born-again believers
accurately apply their Biblical knowledge concerning the seven prior
measurement areas with joyful and loving hearts?
Once the appropriate measurements
of accomplishing any aspect of God’s will are in hand, the work of creating a
2,000 percent cubed solution for a congregational ministry can begin. Such a
solution will have three complementary elements that multiply their individual
effects, each element accomplishing twenty times as much with the same or less
time, effort, and resources that are currently being applied by a Christian, a
group of Christians working in a congregational ministry, or a whole
congregation to accomplish the activity.
Looking at my preceding list of
eight suggested measurements for Biblical knowledge, you may have noticed that
the last element (How many born-again believers accurately apply their Biblical
knowledge concerning the seven prior measurement areas with joyful and loving
hearts?) can be a point of focus for locating and applying complementary 2,000
percent solutions (solutions creating improvements in one aspect of performance
that fully multiply the benefits gained from solutions for the other
performance aspects).
Here is an example of a 2,000
percent cubed solution (three complementary 2,000 percent solutions that have
full value for multiplying the benefits from each one to expand the last
measurement on the list): While applying the same or less time, effort, and
resources, increase by twenty times
• the number of people who have
adequate knowledge of the first seven areas.
• the percentage of the time that
people with adequate knowledge accurately apply what they know.
• the percentage of the time that
those who accurately apply adequate knowledge do so with joyful and loving
hearts.
As you can see, the combined effect of these three
exponential solutions is to increase the occasions when people who adequately
know the Bible accurately apply their knowledge with joyful and loving hearts
by 8,000 times (20 times 20 times 20) while employing the same or less time,
effort, and resources.
Calculating the magnitude of
increased benefits demonstrates how powerful the complementary aspect of such
exponential solutions can be. Put another way, one such set of three
complementary exponential solutions can accomplish as much as involving 8,000
times more people in a congregational ministry activity doing what they would
normally do. I’m sure you agree with me that finding and employing the
complementary solutions have the potential to be more effective for increasing
congregational ministry benefits than trying to recruit so many more helpers.
How realistic is it to find and
employ such sets of three complementary exponential solutions? I believe that
it can always be done because I am not aware of any circumstances in which such
solutions could not be found and implemented with reasonable effort. In my
experience, an individual can usually develop a 2,000 percent cubed solution
with less than 250 hours of activity. If a team of people is involved in the
same task, the combined total time will be about 300 to 350 hours.
In the first two sections of this
chapter, you read about ways to create such complementary 2,000 percent
solutions for increasing witnessing: You combine the two complementary 2,000
percent solutions described in Witnessing
Made Easy to be provided by a church’s in-congregation evangelists:
• five-minute witnessing
teachings and encouragements during each church service and activity to
increase congregational witnessing by twenty times, plus
• preparing twenty or more
in-congregation evangelists to serve at least twenty other churches’
congregations with five-minute teachings and encouragements so that those
churches’ congregational witnessing also expands by twenty times
with any of the six 2,000 percent solutions contained in Ways You Can Witness to increase
witnessing activity by 8,000 times from the congregation’s initial level while
employing the same or less time, effort, and resources by the church. If you
add more than one of the Ways You Can
Witness solutions to the two Witnessing
Made Easy solutions, you can accomplish even more, engaging in 160,000
(with four complementary solutions), 3,200,000 (with five complementary
solutions), or even 64,000,000 (with six complementary solutions) times more
witnessing than the congregation had been doing. Aren’t these opportunities
awesome?
As described in Witnessing Made Easy and Ways You Can Witness, while designing
and conducting the global online witnessing contest to find these eight 2,000
percent solutions, I devoted less than 100 hours of my time. If you use such a
contest to locate complementary exponential solutions for congregational
ministries, I believe that you’ll also succeed without spending a lot of time.
You can read more about the methods I used for the contest in Chapter 12 of Adventures of an Optimist (BookSurge,
2007).
In contrast with the 2,000
percent solution directions given in the two witnessing books that the first
two sections of this chapter are based on, ways of exponentially improving many
congregational ministry activities other than witnessing to accomplish more of
God’s objectives have yet to be identified. The first people who work to
improve the effectiveness of these other ministries without global contests can
rely instead on the directions in The 2,000
Percent Solution (iUniverse, 2003) and The
2,000 Percent Solution Workbook (iUniverse, 2005) to develop each
complementary exponential solution. Those seeking breakthrough congregational
ministry solutions can also examine the two witnessing books to see if any of
these eight exponential witnessing solutions can be adapted for use by other
ministries. In addition, Chapter 11 of Adventures
of an Optimist explains many more potential dimensions for creating
complementary solutions.
Once three (or
more) 2,000 percent complementary solutions have been identified or developed
for a congregational ministry, the next step is to test the solutions on a
small scale. By examining the evidence of how well the solutions work, it’s
possible to draw lessons to make it easier and more successful to implement
them. Once identified and tested, the new practices need to be documented,
taught, and improved. Chapter Two of Help
Wanted explains more about how to do so.
In addition to
concentrating on what this chapter describes, a well-organized church may
choose to take the measurements described in Chapter 1 for its own congregation
and those who live and work nearby. By doing so, a congregation’s leaders will
have a greater sense of what needs exist, how well improvement programs are
working, and where needs aren’t being met. In the process, it’s likely that
people will begin to hear the Holy Spirit more clearly and follow His urgings.
If the entire church doesn’t want to do this, it will still be beneficial for
specific ministries to use measurements to inform about needs and to assist in
making activities more fruitful for the Lord.
Now, while highly fruitful
churches are essential to establishing a 2,000 percent nation, Christian
ministries that operate independently of churches are also important. In
Chapter 4, our attention shifts to what actions such Christian ministries
should emphasize.
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