Local church revolution part 1

You want a revolution in the local church?

1) Abolish the attendance records.
Focus on worship, spiritual growth and fellowship while you are in the building. Ministry and outreach takes place outside of the church building. Refuse to count heads. It is far more important to be sending people out than bringing them in. Souls will be saved out there in the fields if we are sending people out that have the power of the Holy Spirit working within them.

Dunbar's number says that primates are only capable of maintaining a certain number of relationships at one time. Furthermore, this number is relative to the size of the neocortex in the brain. And so we discover that the "monkeysphere" for human beings is about 150. This is interesting stuff. If you go to a church that has 300 members you will probably only be able to maintain a relationship with half of the church's membership (but that's only if we don't count those relationships that you already have to maintain outside of church).

So, if your church building seats 200 and it's getting a little tight, maybe you need to plant a new church not break ground a new building. To think that a new church plant would not fare as well as the founding church is not only self-centered, it denies the power of the Holy Spirit. So send out 50 or more people to plant a new church and save the $500,000 that the new building would have cost for... the local church revolution part II.