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Originally Posted by UntoHim

The “New Math of the New Way”—Unrealistic Projections
In theory the “New Math of the New Way” works inexorably. If one third of the local church members would go out door-knocking regularly, assuming they could each baptize one new believer per month, twelve new Christians would be gained per year. Even if only 25% of these remained, the church’s number would still double annually. Moreover, if those gained adopted the same practice and got the same results, growth would be compounded year after year. Under this scenario, a mere 100 saints could grow to 100,000 in a decade; on this basis W. Lee guaranteed,18 a “church can be doubled yearly. A local church of one hundred saints could increase to one hundred thousand in ten years. This means that this church will increase one thousand times in ten years.” When offered this kind of plan for rapid growth which positive saint or elder would oppose?

Perhaps 100% yearly growth was too optimistic; nevertheless Bro. Lee assured his hearers that a church of 250 with a 33% growth rate could evangelize the whole world in less than 60 years. He proclaimed,19 “I expect and have the full assurance that within three years you will gain at least one. If everyone will gain one within three years, we will have a thirty-three percent increase each year. This may seem slow, but…if a church of two hundred fifty would increase by one-third each year, the entire population of the earth would be gained in less than sixty years.”

Even if you estimate a conservative increase of 2%, is it still realistic?

Here's what John So had to say about Mathematics of the New Way:

"I wasn’t opposing or anything fermenting within me. I’m sorry to say, dear saints, I think there is a plot, a conspiracy, there, not on our part, but on somebody else’s part to bring the churches in Europe and myself under a certain leading—under the, sorry to say, the hidden function of the office. That I must confess I do not, I just cannot fully agree. But that doesn’t mean that if I don’t agree, I oppose. I went to Taipei. I went to Taipei. I joined the door knocking. Okay, I enjoyed it. You might not believe me, but I really enjoyed it. In fact, I fully submitted to the group. You can ask my group leaders, I baptized a few people, really. And I am quite fond of that whole group. But when I was there, listen, one major leading brother in Taipei every time he saw me, he told me that the statistics were manipulated. That’s the word I think he used. I said, “Are you sure brother?” He said, “Yes.” I said then, “Why then don’t you go and see Witness Lee? If it’s manipulated, you have to tell Witness Lee.” He told me, it’s very hard to see him. I tried several times, but I can’t get through. So that makes me a little concerned."