Church services may be scalable, but discipleship is not.
And having more people in attendance does not necessarily mean you are faithfully executing God's mission in your community.
You can't mass-produce disciples because discipleship is not scalable like products are. You can only mass-produce consumers.
If you want more disciples (which is the purpose of the Church), then you need to have more disciple-makers. And all disciples should become disciple-makers. It's part of being a disciple.
Disciples are hand- and Holy Spirit-crafted.
You don't make them through preaching a sermon to a crowd of thousands or even teaching them a bunch of things in a classroom. Nor is it even having biggest altar call response anyone's ever seen.
Those may be pieces of a discipleship journey, but they are not the puzzle. You make disciples by intentionally dedicating time, energy, and resources toward making disciples.
You make them by being in relationship with them. You make them by teaching them and by challenging them to embody the ministry of Jesus to others like you are to them.
We don't need bigger stages. We need MORE tables. We need more people with the confidence to build a table and invite others to join them there.
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