Diverse Areas of Christian church Growth

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Diverse Areas of Christian church Growth

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By : Jason Evans 19 or more times read

Submitted 2010-07-24 16:31:52

There are truly two types of church growth. One type is spiritual growth while the other type is growth in numbers. You would expect most christian churches to want both types of growth but the truth is they often focus on simply one.

Normally the focus is on the growth of numbers in the church. This is because churches place a large amount of their time thinking of new ways to gain visitors and to get those visitors to change to members. This is not a bad thing. The reality is churches must have an increase in numbers over time to keep the doors open.

The certainty that more people means more money is not a bad thing either. It takes cash to keep the building up and the air conditioning running. That in itself is why a lot of christian churches are so focused on getting new members. The trouble is that often this is the just reason they need new members.

I have heard it said once in a church that they needed to go knock on the doors of the neighborhood next door since they had plenty of rich people there. This shocked me to no end and I hope it shocks you too. This church was consumed with the thought of money and that was their merely reason to require growth.

Needless to say this church needed to do some growing in another way before they should have looked at numbers. What I am talking about is spiritual church growth. This is the other type of growth that churches occasionally focus on.

Normally you see the smaller churches focus on this. They also stay small cause this is all they focus on. Spiritual growth means the church is seeking to disciple their members. I am a gigantic fan of this. Every church must move from making members to making disciples.

This is a long system but it causes the members to be more like The lord every day. This is what the church is meant to do. Again however there is a trouble. If the church turns its attention away from evangelization and turns it to focus just on those members of the church it is going to die out over time.

Churches like this often forget the need for a building and air conditioning is imperative and can benefit the furthering of the gospel. A good quality mix of both types of church growth is needed. If you hope to have a thriving church then you will want to find some way to combine these two.

A good way of doing this is by holding small groups that are less formal and causes people to open up about things in their own lives. This may be a great way to get spiritual growth started. By spending time outside of the normal Sunday service doing this type of teaching you may disciple the members easier.

This will also leave room to have Sundays for more evangelistic meetings and messages. Since Sundays are when visitors normally show up you can focus on the numbers. Remember it is crucial to move these visitors from their status to members and then members to disciples.

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