Principles Of Church Growth In The Early Church
INTRODUCTION
This article presents the concept of ‘church growth’ alongside evangelism mainly in the book of Acts. Whereas the Old Testament depicts evangelism as people coming to God, the Lucan perspective demonstrates that God’s servants will go to His people. Blauw’s thesis is that “a centripetal missionary consciousness becomes in Acts a centrifugal missionary activity…” (1974, 34). In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the pigs looked from pig to man and vice versa but could not differentiate them in the very last page of the text which by extension shows what could happen if the church wants to imitate the world. One cannot replace the methods or the principles that brought church growth in the New Testament in our own era.
TYPES OF CHURCH GROWTH
How to Recruit Church Musicians
Many churches have difficulty finding quality musicians to play for their church services. “We’ve put up notices” they tell me. “And no one responds!” Even worse, they find themselves stuck with musicians with either inappropriate skills or poor attitudes, and have to make do because they couldn’t find anyone better.
If you want to have the best odds for finding the right musicians for your church services, follow the guidelines I am sharing here.
A Look at the “Last Days Church”
People pour over the last book in the Bible and try and understand it. The people who are really keen to understand that book buy some of the books that have been published on the subject of the Last Days. In this article we are going to have a little look at what is going to be the Last Days Church.
It is important for us to know right from the beginning that Jesus has spoken about the Last Days Church in His parables and his letter to Laodicean church in the book of Revelation.
The Seven Churches of The Book of Revelation
When one reads chapter two and three in the last book of the Bible (Revelation), many questions may arise as to why God choose the seven churches and in the order He addressed them through His servant John to write. Young Christians normally attempt to spiritualize the letters to the seven churches as they retrace History with total confusion. Many young and even mature Christians are unaware that the “seven churches” were literal historical churches in Asia.
The churches commanded for John to write to were actual well known churches in his day. Their unique selection show us as Believers many things. For starters, these churches represent types and conditions of all church generations to come. This fact can be supported based on several conditions. First, there were numerous churches in the area in which were not selected and written to. The fact the Spirit was speaking to these churches is another factor of the panoramic view that these “seven churches” shows us today of Church History and the existing periods. There is much debate over the theological importance’s of the “seven churches” but the fact remains, God divinely selected this seven distinctively over all of the vase churches in the area.