He looked everywhere. He was not a person of small thinking and he did not want the congregation to be small thinkers. In fact, it was not unusual for the church to charter a bus and take the key people to visit a fast growing church. Brother North was known as a great Sunday school man, but it was a Sunday school that reached out to people. I remember when not only did they count the attendance, each class reported on the number who were invited to Bible school.
Few people are original in planning for growth.
Therefore, it has to be learned. He was committed to doing that. That is a simple principle that is easy to understand. If little teaching of the lost occurs there is little harvest of souls. If a church has twenty, it should be striving for twenty-one.