We think that we can just sit in our buildings and people will come to us. When they walk through our doors then we can grab them and add their names to our church rolls and their gifts to our church budget. It is true that some do come within reach by themselves. But not enough to keep a church healthy and growing. The church is not a frog.
Many mainline churches think and act like frogs and are slowly dying.
They are sitting on their lily pads, wondering what they are doing wrong that more insects do not come within their reach. The problem is not that the church is not being a good frog. When Jesus told his disciples that they were to be fishers of men, he was talking to commercial fishermen who fished with nets and went out in their boats into deep water in search of fish. He was not telling them to sit on the dock with worm on a hook hoping a fish might pass by.