Healthy things grow. If it’s not growing, it’s diminishing, dying, or dead. In the life of the follower of Jesus and in the church, the same is true.
Sometimes people stay stationary and the things around them grow, change, and transition. A solid, consistent, spiritually fit person might walk out all of Christ for all of life by teaching the same class or doing the same type of discipleship for years and years, but the people around them develop and grow and take on new ministry and relationships of pouring into others.
Sometimes people develop and grow out of one form of ministry into another as they themselves grow.
Sometimes a church grows and develops people in loving and obeying Jesus and then sends them out of the fold as workers in other communities, cities, and countries to teach them how to know, love and follow Jesus into His Kingdom.
Sometimes a church grows and develops people who grow and develop people who grow and develop people to know, love and follow Jesus into His Kingdom and the church body just grows and grows.
Sometimes a church does both. But the follower of Jesus and the church of followers of Jesus that is alive in the Spirit and healthy will ALWAYS grow.
He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. ~ 2 Corinthians 9:10
Minimizing me...making much of Jesus 