Last time, I wrote about the five observations I made of
five successful churches. A number of people have made comments on other social
network sites and also to me privately that these churches must have all been
Mega-churches. This was not the case some of those churches had just started
their journey others had been going for some years. The breakdown in size of
those churches - at the time I made my observations, was as follows. Two had
congregations of between 150 and 250. One had a congregation of 600, another
with 1200 and the last with a congregation of 2000+. The churches were
successful because they had the five things I observed in common. All the
churches had been operating for between 5 years to 15 years, and all were
seeing rapid growth. All these churches have continued to see growth. So there
is hope for those churches that have been stuck on a congregation size of
40-50. I believe fervently that a church leader can build a large, vibrant,
healthy, contemporary church with God’s help and intervention. As long has he
or she is willing to learn and give the sacrifice that it will take to grow a
congregation.
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