Thinking About The Growth Of The Church (Forming leaders in action)

There is no magic formula for the growth of the church, the Bible clearly says that growth comes from the combination of our human work (planting and watering) and that of God (giving growth).

We know that growth is a reality because every day we see news of churches and pastors who are doing their part of the work (Plant and Water) and come to God to do theirs (Give growth).

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The fact that for many years I work as a project planner, makes me think that plans are of great importance when it comes to meeting objectives and goals, in fact it is biblical:

Luke 14:28

28 »Suppose some of you wants to build a tower. Do not you feel first to calculate the cost, to see if you have enough money to finish it? 29 If you lay the foundations and can not finish it, all who see it will begin to mock him, 30 and say: "This man could not finish what he started to build".

There are a series of steps that I have analyzed and that should be followed:

1.-Identify the needs
2.-The objectives
The one who thinks, the one who seeks, the one who investigates is enlightened, the opposite is the one who seeks nothing, finds nothing. The purposes must be aligned with the biblical principles.

3.-The strategies.

** A GOOD DISPOSITION -**

a) drive changes, Rm. 12.2.

b) Leaving the routine.

c) Break with obsolete paradigms.

d) You must act with courage and enthusiasm.

BE CREATIVE:

The only way to get creative ideas from heaven, is to be in communion with the creator, they do not fail and they will fulfill the purpose that God wants them to fulfill.

Creativity is the faculty that allows you to overcome what you have learned, to do something new to create or invent.
The activities depend on the objectives. For example: teamwork empowers the imagination and creativity to propose and carry out a program of new activities that motivate and involve people.

Activities:
An activity becomes exciting when we do it with a group of good friends, (the environment is important). Here begins our departure: we must cultivate an atmosphere of friendship and camaraderie, before starting to plan activities to ensure success.

Note: An idea has little time to live, if we let time pass, that good idea will die. When God gives me an idea, I do not delay in executing it.

THE EXECUTION

We are a team: The commitment belongs to everyone; everyone must know their responsibilities and put all their efforts so that the activities are successful. We must spend a lot of time for prayer.

When we dream of the future of our church, we are not thinking about having a church that simply exists - if not, we want a flourishing church. Witness the growth of the church. We want to see people discover Jesus, mature and touch the lives of others.

You may wonder how exactly the church can thrive, so I have prepared some tips to help us grow:

1.- We must become an engine for our community.

It is easy to think of your church as a destination. Many growing churches will tell you that the key to the growth of the church lies in serving and touching lives in their communities.

This is more than a trick to increase your attendance. It is a way to infuse your church with a sense of mission, while treating the people in your community the way God would like to see them treated. When you are able to do those two things, you will find that growth becomes a natural byproduct.
Next, brainstorm with your leadership team how you can help meet those needs.

2.- Focus on talking about generosity.

True generosity is hard to instill in people, so one of the most important things you can do is find ways to have conversations about generosity as often as possible. This could include thinking about how to include it in more series of sermons and small groups. It is possible that people resist at the beginning, but in the long term they will mold the DNA of their church, finding ways to return to this conversation. The law of sowing and harvesting is an extremely important issue when it comes to inculcating this value.

3.- Grow and use social networks, communication channels.

The growth of the church begins with making connections. The committed members of the church are not made after one or two interactions. You need to be able to build a relationship with them, and you can not leave the burden on them to foster this relationship. This means that you need to communicate with them.

Social networks is a powerful way to do this.

With an email list, discord user, facebook, whatsapp, a non-invasive tool is built to interact with people regularly. And as long as you do not burn that bridge too often or by sending them content they do not want, you have the opportunity to bring them back to your church and to make them active and committed members.

With very little effort and knowledge, you can even set up a series of emails that can be sent to people when they are added to the list. These emails could include:

Your goals and mission
Volunteer opportunities
Information on various ministries of the church
Stories of people and families transformed by God

The intention is the key to the growth of the church

The key to becoming a thriving church is to make specific plans and follow them. There should not be many things happening regularly that lack an intentional process. Once you start creating some adaptive procedures around these things, you will be surprised how naturally the growth starts to occur.

We all have these desires in our hearts:

See that my church reaches new people every week.
Guide the members with my personal example.
Develop as a Leader to be able to guide my Leaders.
I would like to see my church ordained in a serious work that results in new disciples.
I want to see my church plant new parishes in a short time.
Be active in evangelizing and discipling each week to be obedient to my Lord
Know simple and practical steps so that my members grow as Christians.
Learn to direct and train my team of leaders.
Have the tools to focus on working towards people.
Have clear processes to take the church to growth.

I have spent many years seeing that the people of God had remained in an old way of thinking, perhaps because of doctrines or customs, when God has endowed us with all the tools to do everything with excellence, the church does not escape from them, we must handle it with all disposition, excellence, not for man but for God.

We all must prepare ourselves to go that extra mile, we are in times where we must take advantage of all resources, human, technological to spread the good news of God and reach the souls that is our goal. To make known Jesus.

I have prepared a series of messages on this topic, which I will develop. I will also be able to share leadership modules, which have worked very well so far.