Small to Big, Big to Small

I was reading a great article about the rise and fall of "Big Idea" the company that made Veggie Tales. Check this quote out:

"...when a small company experiences extremely rapid growth, it soon ceases to be a “small company.” Yet just because it no longer qualifies as “small” doesn't necessarily mean it is now “big.” In other words, just because you're no longer “Tim's Software Hut” doesn't necessarily mean you're “Microsoft.” And somewhere in the middle, many, many companies fail."

I begin to think about church growth because I'm believing for extremely rapid growth in the next few months at our church. My boy Troy shared something with me some time ago that was similar to my thought today, and I believe it went something like this.

For a small church to grow you have to do things like a big church and for a big church to sustain growth you have to do things like a small church. The thought behind this is to do everything with passion, excellence, accuracy, and systematically as if you had 5k people sitting in your church every week even though there might only be 75; to do this it requires planning, communication, growing leaders and hard work. On the other hand to sustain growth you have to think small, maintain community, otherwise people get lost, needs are not met and relationships are slim to none and all we have are just people who go to church.

I don't want to go to church anymore, I want to be the church. I want to see an explosion of God in our city, in our nation and in the world.