hey pastor it's Tom's Scarrella hey I just wanted to encourage you about causing
your church to grow we're revivalists our passion is for revival in the in the
nations and to see God's power demonstrating the love of Christ shown
to the lost but I want to just speak to you just for a few minutes here about
seeing your church grow this year I know many of you that we've spoken to over
the years we've ministered in over 1200 churches all over the world and many of
you have been frustrated and stuff like that with your church growing and some
people think that just you know God's got a growth gun or something like that
and he only causes certain churches to grow for whatever sovereign reason and
stuff but let me just say this that you can grow intentionally okay and I want
to give you three things real quick that I know will greatly bless your church
and your ministry if you will try those and do them immediately it does no good
to have it as an idea oh I've seen the video now Tom and and I've read it
before and then you don't do it okay so there's something about just jumping
out of the boat and doing it okay because I pastored eight years I've been
traveling ministered over 20 years but I pastored eight years and so there's
several different things you can do intentionally today to cause your church
to grow okay so I'm going to give you three to four however you want to word
it all right and so number one have a faith goal have a faith goal every
quarter have a faith go have an annual faith goal of how your church can grow
okay how many do you want to see if you have a small church say for example
you're 50 people say okay by January next year twelve months from now we want
to see a hundred people okay so what are you doing every quarter to cause that to
come to pass not just leave it up to God in His sovereignty to do it all you have
to do something put your hand to the Wow what are you gonna do what are you
doing quarterly okay this is what we're doing we're doing this outreach okay
we're gonna do a giveaway you know Donuts or hot dogs in the park okay you
did that last year did it girl No then you probably got to try something
different okay so number one you got to have a faith goal if you don't have a
goal people don't know what to strive for the late John Wimber used to say
this that no one will get on a bus if there's not a sign in the top part of
the bus it says where the bus is going they're not going to put money in it and
they're not going to get on it and you know what that's the same thing as true
with churches the majority of churches don't have anything about where they're
going or what the money is going to they just say well we're just a small Church
and we're just trying to survive and pay for the lights and stuff people don't
want to give to that you got to have a faith goal so number one have a faith
goal that you have to push for and share it with the people don't keep it to
yourself in your family let the burden fall on the whole congregation this is
our faith goal everybody's going for the same thing you
know have fellowships Sundays whatever it is you got to do if it's you know you
live in the US and you're in a maybe you're in a football area have a
football Sunday everyone wears their football favorite football team shirt
and and or whatever it is that you got to do but have that faith goal and start
to pump that out there number two the second thing is this is when somebody
buys a home they go on what's called a new homeowners mailing list okay some
companies they make their bread and butter on this of just you know meeting
the needs of people who just bought a house in that particular region so they
say the average person that's going to get saved and come to a church is going
to do so because they're displaced meaning they just moved somewhere they
don't know anybody so when we moved to Florida we knew nobody immediately the
Baptist Church sent us a letter the moment we closed on our house it was
like that following week we were given a letter welcome to the community thank
you for coming we're a Bible believing Church
if there's anything we can do to help you and your transition please call us
here are some numbers you may want you know and they gave us the utility's
number and the police number and various different practical things they didn't
send us a CD of the pastor sermon they spoke to us practically okay and so who
are those who are buying homes in your community you know who they are they're
middle to upper-class people people that can fund the vision okay some people
spend all of their time reaching to the down and outers but the down and hours
can't fund it okay so you've got to have that middle to upper class so that you
can also they can help fund the vision all right so how do you do that the way
you can reach out to them is a new homeowners mailing list you can get them
now you they're so simple now you can go online and you can get them right now
for next to nothing and they can mail it to you we've we've done it before we've
encouraged ministers to do that before and we've seen some of their churches
grow as much as four hundred percent in a year just by a new owners mailing list
and in a vision excuse me a you know having a faith goal so nothing but a
faith goal and a new homeowners mailing list we've just talked to a pastor whose
church grew four hundred percent in the last year just by those two things okay
so those are critical critical things for you to do okay number three is open
up a YouTube channel open up your own YouTube channel of your church nowadays
with nothing but your cell phone you can self you do a selfie video of yourself
under five minutes and just say hey this is pastor Johnson and you know just
sitting here with my family at McDonald's and we're just laughing and
cutting up and hey don't forget God's on your side we love you and praying for
you guys post it on Facebook post it out there on YouTube okay
and but do it on YouTube YouTube is the second largest website in the world and
it will absolutely impact your ministry we've had just in the last several weeks
we've had people attend our meetings who never
heard of us before outside of YouTube not Facebook YouTube YouTube they saw
they saw our videos that came we've had people partner with us we've had people
come to our meetings and stuff and yet the majority of church is the only thing
they do with YouTube is if the pastor preaches his hour-and-a-half sermon on
Sunday they throw that video up there and think that's good enough well the
average YouTube video is that's watched is under five minutes the majority of
YouTube videos you look is all under five minutes it doesn't have to be the
best sound and the best quality and the best mood light and you know the super
duper high def 4k camera it doesn't have to be that it can be just your cell
phone and just shooting clips of yourself hey we're going into the
service here it's going to be an awesome meeting whatever in a day and age that
we live with reality television at an all-time high it's amazing with a
reality TV how much people want to watch it okay so you can do that you can
impact people with YouTube alright so number one a faith goal number two is
get a new homeowners mailing list number three is a YouTube get a YouTube channel
your own YouTube channel and just start to pump as many videos as you can out
pump two three a week and the more you do it the more people will begin to hear
about you and stuff and so begin to do that push that out there push the
envelope as far as for growth in your church if you don't push for it nobody
else will okay so you got to do something to push that envelope to get
out there and listen God is going to breathe on that things God's going to
bless that thing and your church is going to grow but you have to have a new
mindset you can't think like a little church you got to think like a big
Church God wants you to grow out of that mentality and the way you do it those
three things alone will absolutely impact your city and impact those around
you people come from a long ways around to come to a non-fire church so I pray
that helps you I pray that blesses you we would absolutely love to hear from
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