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Originally Posted by Ohio
Why would you be worried about church growth when WL told us, "I don't care if I have 50 people meeting here. As long as they're absolute."
On the other hand, if you are genuinely concerned, why don't you take this up with LSM management who excommunicated 100's of LC's in huge regions of two continents?
Are their hearts that infinitesimally small that they cannot stomach a little diversity?
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I'm not worried about it, in fact I believe church numbers is a poor measure of growth or quality. However, if you want to assess the growth in numbered of something looking at one church over here or one church over here is the wrong way to do it. In my experience the training and everything are getting bigger and bigger.
Why don't I flip your point about excommunication around and ask you the question why denominations never or rarely excommunicate any church? Even churches with pedophile priests they will not close down. I know why because it will upset their numbers. They are happy to have the leaven because it makes their loaf look bigger. But if excommunicating is what it takes to remove the leaven then that's what it takes.