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Breakthrough Church
Growth
…BEING PASSIONATE
FOLLOWERS OF JESUS
•A lifestyle of passion, not a
program.
•All about relationships, not religion.
•A passion-driven, people-focused
mission, not a ministry.
•Every member serving together as
passionate followers of Jesus.
IT’S ABOUT YOU!
Your Obeying Unwavering the
Call of Jesus –
To Fulfill the Great Commission
and Commandment
“Jesus said, ‘Go therefore and
make disciples of all the nations,
baptizing them in the name of the
Father and the son and the Holy
Spirit, teaching them to observe
all that I commanded you; and lo,
I am with you always, even to the
end of the age.’”
(Matthew 28:19-20)
“Love the Lord your God with all
your heart, all your soul, and all
your mind…Love your neighbor
as you love yourself.”
(Matthew 22:37-40)
FIVE WORDS OF BREAKTHROUGH
CHURCH GROWTH
Promise
“The LORD had said to Abram,
‘Leave your country, your people
and your father's household and
go to the land I will show you. I
will make you into a great nation
and I will bless you; I will make
your name great, and you will be
a blessing.’” (Genesis 12:1-2)
Prayer
“Then their eyes were opened
and they recognized Him, and He
disappeared from their sight.
They asked each other, "Were not
our hearts burning within us
while He talked with us on the
road and opened the Scriptures
to us?" (Luke 24:31-32)
People
“Therefore go and make
disciples of all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit…” (Matthew 28:19)
Passion/Purpose
“Therefore go and make
disciples of all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit, and teaching them to obey
everything I have commanded
you. And surely I am with you
always, to the very end of the
age." (Matthew 28:19-20)
Pursuit
“…and teaching them to obey
everything I have commanded
you. And surely I am with you
always, to the very end of the
age." (Matthew 28-20)
“For to me, to live is Christ and
to die is gain.” (Philippians 1:21)
A Maintenance-Driven
Church
I. THE CHURCH IS ONE OF
THE MOST NON-PRODUCTIVE
INSTITUTIONS IN AMERICA
A. The Mission of the Church
is People
• Most churches focus on
program, not people.
• Most churches focus on
maintenance, not mission.
• Most churches focus on religion,
not relationships.
• Most churches focus on
problems, not purpose.
• Most churches focus on
plans, not proclaiming.
The Breakthrough Principle is
Passion for OTHERS.
Obedient
Testimonies
Helping
Everyone
Reach
Salvation
Salvation = Saved + Sanctified +
Sent
“Again Jesus said, ‘Peace be
with you! As the Father has
sent Me, I am sending you.’
And with that He breathed on
them and said, ‘Receive the
Holy Spirit.’”
(John 20:21-22)
The way to measure your
effectiveness as a church is
by the number of disciples
your church has produced.
We call that the People
Principle.
The church in America has
stopped proclaiming the
Gospel.
The Fast Facts:
• 98% of all church growth
in America is church
transfer.
• 2% of all church growth
is conversion growth.
• 95% of all Christians in
America today are barren.
* 85% of all churches in
America have either declined
or plateaued in growth.
* 9.5 church members out of
10 don’t share the gospel with
others.
• 90% of all churches assimilate
less than 2% of the annual
visitor volume into active
workers – what we might
describe as disciples.
~ Maximize Your Influence by
Ken Houts (Statistical Source)
These statistics prove that
people are no longer the
primary mission of the
church.
The Redefined Mission of
the Church:
• Maintaining and
ministering to the people
we have, neglecting the
Great Commission.
II. THE CHURCH HAS
REDEFINED ITS MISSION
• We have given the church a
make-over.
• The church has been called by
Jesus to a mission of “Making
Disciples.”
“Go, therefore, and make
disciples…” (Matthew 28:19)
• The church, however, has
evolved into a maintenanceculture church.
A. Five Growth-Measuring
Habits of the Local Church –
the Standards:
• What we measure
demonstrates our priorities
because, “what gets
measured, gets done.”
• What are the standards we
measure?
1) Increased attendance is the
standard of the maintenancedriven church.
2) Increased income is the
standard of the maintenancedriven church.
3) Increased Sunday
School/Small Group attendance
is emphasized.
4) Facilities are the focus of a
maintenance-driven church.
5) Mission-giving is the
standard of success in the
maintenance-driven church.
B. Seven Maintenance-Driven
Symptoms of the Local
Church
1) 95% of pastor and staff
time is invested in maintaining
the church.
• Pastor and staff’s focus is
to nurture the church
members. They don’t have
time for the unchurched or
unsaved.
2) The Church Board spends
95% of their time focusing on
the finances and maintenance
of the church.
• If your leadership spends
more time discussing and
maintaining instead of
investing in people and
mission, it is a behavioral
symptom of a maintenancedriven church.
3) Members are too busy to
invest their talents, time, and
treasure in the church.
•Every person invests in what
they value.
•Maintenance-driven churches
provide little, if any, passion to
motivate people to serve.
4) Members are not motivated
to care for or reach out to the
unchurched.
• The symptom of the
maintenance-driven church is
that members do not care
about the mission.
• You can be a member and
never make a “disciple” of
Christ.
5) Members are not trained to
be caregivers or to share their
testimony (story).
• Members do not have a
mind-set for looking for
opportunities to share with
others.
6) Members are not mobilized or
passionate to make disciples for
Christ.
• “The strongest need in the
church is motivating the people
of God to be passionate
followers of Jesus Christ.”
~ D. Cowan
7) 80% of the people in the
congregation are not core
members.
• The behavior of the
maintenance-driven church
member is to use the church to
be nurtured and maintained, but
not to be involved in or investing
in it.
• “Growing churches in the
maintenance-culture create their
own problems because they can
only make church members and
not disciples.
~ Ken Houts
IF YOU KEEP DOIN’ WHAT
YOU’RE DOIN’, YOU’RE
GONNA KEEP GETTIN’ WHAT
YOU’VE GOT!
Our Goal – Unity!
Every Church Member Going
in the Same Direction
We call that Agenda Harmony!
Asking the Right Question as
a Church Board:
The right question is not,
“What do you think we should
do?”
The right question is, “What is
God thinking? What does
Jesus what us to do?”
Questions:
1) What is your structural
process to communicate
the love of God to bond the
quest of your church?
2) What are the steps needed
to make a disciple?
3) Who is purposefully trained
to love people into the
church?
4) How many members are
relationally connecting
someone to the church as
Jesus commanded?
• The only way to “make
disciples” is by the love of
God through relationships.
5) How many members in
your church are trained to
relationally assimilate
visitors into your church?
OUR VISION: OTHERS
Obedient
Testimonies
Helping
Everyone
Reach
Salvation