Most people ask the question, "What do we have to do to make our church grow?" The answer most of us expect is to add something - more prayer, a better Sunday School, increased advertising, more small groups.
A better question is, "What's keeping our church from growing?"
Growth is the natural process of living things, and growth is God's will for his church. God doesn't desire that anyone should perish because they don't know Jesus Christ as their savior. So, if we're not growing, we need to ask, "what's blocking us?" Is it our attitude toward guests? Is it an inward focus? Is it that we're focusing so much on doing lots of good things that we're not really doing the best thing?
The answer may be that we need to stop adding, and start taking away some good things that are keeping us from doing the most important thing well.
I'd be interested in your answers to the question. Care to chime in?
