Church Growth: Feeding the Flock In a Count-the-Sheep Culture

We want numbers to verify our successes. There are two huge problems with that sentence – and they’re found in the words numbers and our. First, not all successes have numbers to verify them. Second, the successes of the church are not our successes. We need to start getting comfortable, in the first instance, with Success Without Numbers and in the the second instance, with Success That’s Not Ours.

sheep 1240 x 697We want numbers to verify our successes.

There are two huge problems with that sentence – and they’re found in the words numbers and our.

First, not all successes have numbers to verify them.

Second, the successes of the church are not our successes.

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