And it should be a concern we have as a local congregation 3. Some are very diligent in spreading the gospel, and people are obedient to the Lord 2. Christians new to the area attend for awhile, and then look elsewhere 2. The more involved a person becomes in the work of the congregation, the more important the congregation becomes in his life. It logically follows, therefore, that a congregation which offers people many opportunities for involvement would be more successful in attracting and keeping converts than would a congregation which offers few opportunities for involvement.
Total evangelism includes more than reaching the lost.
It also includes involving the members in the work of the local congregation. If a congregation can maintain a high involvement level, its conversion rate will be higher, its drop-out rate will be lower, and thus its net growth rate will be higher. The problem with the larger congregations is that they have not been able to increase the number of task assignments fast enough to keep pace with their expanding membership. In other words, a larger congregation might actually have more than enough specific task assignments to go around, but the members might not be aware of the many ways in which they could get involved. This document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College.