Father, I ask that you give this young preacher a double portion of your Spirit. May the church he pastors grow to twice the size of the Dallas church. Bless him greatly, O Lord. He sure did, said Danny, also with wet eyes. I could not possibly imagine that God could ever use me like Dr. Criswell had prayed, but that holy experience confirmed in my heart that God had called me to pastor a local church.
Every theology has a context.
Likewise, you can t fully appreciate Calvin s theology without understanding the circumstances in which he forged his beliefs. In the same way, every methodology has a story behind it. Many people look at the so-called megachurches and assume those churches have always been big. They forget that every large church started off as a small church. And no church becomes large without struggling through years of problems, setbacks, and failures.