Amen. Well, you may have noticed there's not a whole lot of room today. Praise God. That's great,

that we're continuing to grow. I do believe in church growth strategy. I just don't believe in the

church growth strategy movements of the 1990s and 80s. The idea that you would appeal to the reprobate

who, according to scripture in

Romans chapter 3 and multiple other passages hates God the church is not for

goats first and foremost the church is for God secondly is for God's people for

sheep but that is in that there's still a church growth strategy of sorts it's

twofold here it is one, the Bible says,

my sheep, hear my voice, speaking of Christ. So preach God's word, preach it faithfully, preach it

unapologetically, and you will ordinarily, not in every case, sometimes churches shrink

because of faithfulness, but ordinarily in many cases the church will grow.'ll grow by god's people not the reprobate

but by god's people the sheep hearing the voice of christ ringing true ringing clear and being

drawn to that and the second way it'll grow is the fbi i that is a church growth strategy

i just assume 15 people here this morning that you are undercover FBI agents.

And that's a wonderful ministry as well because that one's evangelistic, right?

It doesn't require the pastor to compromise.

You preach God's truth clearly, faithfully, unapologetically.

And Christians will come, right?

The sheep will come.

The FBI will also come because they can't stand the truth of God.

And so they'll sit there. But then they'll hear the word of God preached and they might get saved.

So if you are an FBI undercover agent, welcome. We're glad you're here.

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