Why We Are
Thom Rainer in
Surprising Insights from the Unchurched
defines an evangelistically effective church to be a church that
has “at least twenty-six conversions per year and a conversion
ratio (membership/annual conversion) of less than 20:1. (The
conversion ratio attempts to discern how many church members it
takes to reach one person for Christ in a year. The national norm
for churches in America is 85:1.) Less than 4 percent of churches
in America meet both criteria.” Less than 4% of churches in
America have 26 conversions per year and a membership to annual
conversion ratio of less than 20:1.
Assuming this to be true I turned in the yellow
pages to churches and counted the names of 169 different Christian
churches. That means that in the Champaign-Urbana area there are
at the most only 6 churches that are evangelistically effective.
Six churches that carrying out the Great Commission. Six churches
that are doing what Jesus Christ has called each of us to do which
is to “seek and to save the lost.” Six churches that fully
understand what it means to be Christian.
My
prayer is that Temple will become the 7
th
.
Jesus existed “to seek and to save the lost,” and so do we.
Pastor Scott
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