Every growing church has problems, and that’s not a warning sign, but a sign of life. In this message from Acts 5 and 6, Pastor Rogers unpacks the New Testament model for how a church operates: pastor-led, deacon-served, committee-operated, and congregationally affirmed. When the Early Church multiplied, a legitimate problem surfaced: the neglect of the Grecian widows. It could have split the church through murmuring. Instead, the apostles modeled a better way.
Pastor Rogers walks pastors through three principles for facing growth: where there’s life, there’s growth; where there’s growth, there are problems; and where there are problems, there are God-given solutions. This episode will help you see the friction in your growing church not as a failure, but as an opportunity to depend on God and raise up godly leaders to serve alongside you.
“Where there is life, there is growth. Where there is growth, there are problems. Where there are problems, there are God-given solutions.” —Adrian Rogers
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Content from this podcast is from the original sermon, The Ecology of a Church, by Adrian Rogers.