Blessing, prosperity, and multiplicity
This morning began in an awesome way with around 40 students (standing room only and perhaps then some) at JumpStart. The whole idea is to provide a place with rocking music, food, fun, and a great start to the day with God's word. To see 40 kids come in almost a half hour before school to do that is incredible! Especially when we had around 20 last week. Doubling the numbers (or " adding to their numbers daily " to quote Acts) is a pretty good trend to have... Often, we equate success with size. If God is "blessing" a ministry or church, they should have abundant resources and be seeing tons of people coming in, right? I mean, shouldn't there be tons of Saddleback's and Life Church's and Willow Creek's and Fellowship Church's and North Point Community Church's if God is blessing other churches? Hmmm... This presents a problem. Jesus gave us orders to " go and make disciples " which means if we're not growing we&#