Discipleship

A fellow minister here in town made an interesting point recently regarding church growth. He said that he prays for his church to grow only so much that everyone in it can still be adequately discipled in the faith, and so no one falls through the cracks. I that is good to pray for as one of the shortcomings of really big churches, whether they be Protestant mega-churches or Roman Catholic parishes, do not always do well in helping their parishioners grow in personal faith and devotion to Christ... too many people just fall through the cracks. What is scary about our parishes is that this often happens even though we are very small.