At what speed is the Church of God going? The…

At what speed is the Church of God going? The general overseer has said that the executive council are dreaming of ways to speed up the church. He mentioned multiply campuses as one means of doing so. Speed changes things; a church experiencing rapid growth does not have time to spend endless hours or even years trying to determine when the Lord sanctifies someone. The book of Acts church moved fast, in understanding, in raising finances and in figuring out how to take care of the various needs within the community of faith. The Lord blessed them with His gifts while they were engaged in His service. It doesn’t take long for the Lord to sanctify, fill with the spirit or to empower with the other gifts; they will be there when there is a need for them. How fast is the CoG moving? The Seventh Day Adventists was formed just a few years before the CoG, mostly by a woman and with the emphasis of Saturday worship all of which should have been a deterrent to growth. Yet they now list 18.5 million members with 74,299 churches. The CoG lists 6 million plus worldwide and about 1 million in the states. This suggests that we have spent far too much time splitting hairs, trying to figure out how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Which is another way to say that we have majored in minors.