How To Bring 100 New Members To Your Church Every Year!

Find that special gift God has purpose for in your life, and use it as a bridge to bring others to Christ. You can easily bring 100 new members to your church every year!

I find that often Christians want to serve, but the opportunities in their Church are few, they don’t have the knowledge or skills, or they don’t know God’s purpose for their life. Pastors are usually so busy, that many of them don’t have time to supervise a particular ministry. And often aren’t sure who would qualified to head one. They may be reluctant to delegate responsibilities to others, because of the pressure as leader of their church to maintain a pure spiritual doctrine.

Most Christians, even those that consider themselves active, lead only a few people to Christ every year. That’s because they only witness to a few each year. The retired, have little contact with people outside the church. The rest, have contact with a small group they work with, and find it awkward to witness to them.

However we can be evangelist for and through our church, or as an individual, via the internet.

Would you like to be a missionary? The definition of a missionary is, “one who goes forth as a representative of God, teaching a message with a view to making converts”. When you think about it, that’s God’s purpose for every Christian. The challenge is to determine what gifts He’s given you to accomplish that.

Wouldn’t it be great to be able to just go out and tell thousands about the Gospel, and see hundreds of souls saved? Better still, why not do it from your home?

The internet provides us a method that allows us to build a bridge that brings the un-churched into the local church, through the development of “Bridge Sites”. The Bridge Site Strategy is grounded in the idea of finding common ground as a method of relating better to those who don’t know the Lord. And we can do it from the comfort of our homes.

Common interest, hobbies, life situations, work experiences, health conditions, causes, etc., can be used as the “Bridge” to enter their world. A bridge presents opportunities to develop friendships and dialogue, which gently brings them into your church community.

Because a blog is informal and personal, it can create a feeling of personal relationship between users and the writer – this is called a sense of community. “People are interested in people.”

God has given each one of us, one or more gifts that can be used as a bridge to bring others to church first, and then to Christ. It is what we call a niche, something we love to do, and comes natural for us. We often think of those gifts as something God has blessed us with, to bring us joy and pleasure to our lives. While this is true, those gifts were also given to us to serve as a bridge to bring others into the church, and to Him. How much easier would it be to develop a friendly relationship with someone, and gently bring them into your circle, than to door knock, or approach strangers in public places. Most unchurched people aren’t looking for someone to witness to them. But they will feel comfortable sharing an activity with you that you both love.

Here’s an example:

Bob loved woodcarving, though he considered himself to be an amateur. He decided to start a local blog site to share what he knew and to ask others to share their knowledge with him. He solicited others to write articles for his blog sharing their information. Everyone had a suggestion, where to purchase tools, best wood to use, and their favorite techniques.

It wasn’t long before Bob’s blog was buzzing with activity. He decided to invite his new internet friends to join in a woodcarving session, to be hosted at his Church’s activity building, and offered a beginners woodcarving class. This brought his bloggers in contact with members of his Church in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Each session was opened in prayer, but church members were cautioned not to be preachy, but could invite visitors to church as personal relationships grew.

After eight weeks of carving their best, projects were displayed and trophies were given in several categories. As the “Woodcarving Ministry” membership grew, the more professional carvers (Christians) assisted the amateurs, and great friendships were born.

As the “new woodcarvers” grew personal relationships with the church members, new members are added to the church. And they invited others to both the “Woodcarving Ministry” and to Church.

Some of the new additions to the Church were the unchurched, but others were people that had fallen from Church and returned through this ministry.

A ministry such as this could easily bring ten new members each month. That is one hundred twenty new members per year. And you would be having the time of your life.

Can you imagine the buzz a Church would receive if twenty such ministries were present in a church?

Each bridge ministry could easily bring 100 new members to your church each year. Do the math.