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Spiritual Barometer - Where are you at?

The community includes all of the lost and unchurched people who live within driving distance of your church. In relation to the gospel, some are totally unreceptive, some somewhat receptive, some very receptive, and some who have professed faith in Christ yet are not committed to His church.

The crowd includes everyone, believer and unbeliever, who attends the Sunday morning worship service each week. The crowd has the commitment to show up for worship. Some in the Christian community automatically have a negative reaction to the idea of creating a crowd. There is no reason for this. Crowds are not bad. Jesus attracted great crowds. In Matthew 4:25.we are told that "Large crowds followed him wherever he went-people from Galilee, the Ten Towns, Jerusalem, from all over Judea, and from east of the Jordan River. Mark 12:37 reports that "….the crowd listened to him with great interest. It was a crowd of 5,000 men, probably about 15,000 total people, that Jesus miraculously fed with the five loaves and two fish. Jesus knew and tried to teach his disciples that not everyone in the crowd had or would make a real commitment when he taught the parable of the sower. However, the one thing you don't see Jesus do is shame the crowd away because they were merely curious, or their motives weren't right. He just taught them the truth. The same is true in the book of Acts. Crowds gathered, but not all believed.

The congregation is everyone who is an official member of our church. The congregation consists of those who have made a meaningful commitment to church membership via the church's membership class.

The committed includes those from the congregation who are growing toward spiritual maturity. They have made the commitment through the church's maturity class to practice the habits necessary for spiritual growth.

The core consists of those from the ranks of the committed who have made a commitment through the church's ministry class to use their gifts to work in a particular area of ministry in the church.