Let us suppose. . . First, all church buildings are sold. All congregations of more than two hundred members are divided in two. Store fronts, small halls, or community centers are rented as needed. Sunday school promotion and most publicity are dropped.
Evangelism takes on new dimensions.
The church begins to take seriously its charge to preach the gospel to the poor and be an agent of the kingdom of God. It ceases to take economic potential into consideration in planting new churches. It begins to lose its enchantment with suburban materialism. I suggest it would grow-and might very well replay the book of Acts. This is the needed cataclysm, in general outline if not in specific detail.