Many churches hit summer and put it on cruise control. Hoping & praying to just make it to the fall season. I think when we get into that mindset... that is what we get. We get a maintaining summer. However, when we go after life change in summer, God honors it. This summer at New Walk we had our series called BareNakedFaith.com & our prayer was that we would see 30 new conversions & 30 Baptisms in 7 weeks. Now... when you consider the average church has less than 5 Conversions and 10 baptisms A YEAR, our 30/30 goal in 7 weeks was aggressive but not what God had in mind.
WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED: 70 Conversions & 90 Baptisms!
So, if a church leader reads this, my encouragement is to not be slack in summer. Think opposite. Think whatever the average church is doing.. what ever is tradition, do opposite.
Here is a picture of Sydney, my daughter, being Baptized.
