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I wanted to add something to the previous post. What those running the FTTT and sponsoring the FTTT didn't realize (but should have) is that results grow exponentially. If you focus on evangelizing and growth of the evangelists, then you will see, over time the church being built as well.

In the first year they were very upset that they had great results evangelizing, but didn't see any benefit in the church in Taipei. So the focus in the second year turned to seeing results in the churches. To that goal we were given complete liberty. I have shared in detail (I think it was on this forum, but if it was on the other forum I'll go over what I shared again). Our group was very successful. In a matter of months (Technically from December to April, but in reality you should count it as 4 months) we had 18 brothers from a graduate school in engineering come into the meetings of the church in Taipei. This was the result of 3 Full time trainees and 1 sister affiliated with the church in Taipei laboring and coordinating together.

To be fair you would not expect all groups to have this kind of success, we had one of the trainers, the brother that had had the greatest success in door knocking, a chinese sister that also had very high numbers, and I was very experienced in the gospel before coming to Taiwan. The other sister we had was not experienced in door knocking nor in the gospel, but she was clearly gifted at shepherding and very savvy at getting other saints to make up any deficiency she had.

But here is what could have happened once they had a successful model. We could have easily identified 3 other groups that were ready and over the course of a month trained them. So we could have trained 9 others per month, or 100 trainees a year. Second, you need to group the trainees so that each group has at least one experienced brother. About 4-6 months would have been sufficient to train many if not most saints and then let them return to the churches. Finally, realistic numbers would be about 1/100 of those that receive the gospel will want further fellowship. If you run a Bible study or home meeting about half of those that come will then want to come to the church meeting. That is 1/2 of 1%. A team of full time workers should be able to preach the gospel 10 times a night (at a campus), of that about 5 of those times should result in someone receiving the gospel. Therefore, about once a month you will actually meet someone who wants to come for further fellowship. Of those about half will actually come into the meeting. If you are diligent at laboring at the end of the year a team of 3 may have added 6 to the church. If you labor in campuses it is very likely that a large number of these may wish to actually spend a year as a trainee. Therefore, although the numbers are much, much less than the ridiculous projections put forth back in 1987 by ignorant and foolish prognosticators, even so, exponential growth is not unrealistic. And if you understand that as well as Warren Buffet does, then you know it is possible to evangelize the whole world.

So these estimates are for your average group of three saints that are diligent, not necessarily gifted.