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Acts5 has an amazing lesson on what a church can accomplish should it be filled with the Spirit. There is this mistaken impression that churches have to actively seek outreach. Churches believe that the world actively ignores believers, and so churches have to take that extra effort to draw them in. Churches speak of community transformation as a goal and as a mission.

While intuitively this makes sense -- truth is the world does actively ignore believers, and community transformation should be a goal -- it is not representative of true Christianity. True Christianity is Spirit-based. And when the Spirit is at work, the world doesn't need to be reached out to; the world will actively sense the Spirit and reach in. Acts5:12-16 shows the extent to which people will see the Lord at work and throw themselves to experience the same thing.

Eccl3:11 expresses the fact that the heart of man seeks eternity. The revivals of the 18th century were begun by a handful of people meeting to pray, and then the Spirit took over and spread like wildfire. Churches like Mars Hill don't explode in growth because of their extremely effective outreach; they grow because of the Lord's Spirit drawing people in. Churches with no Spirit have no chance at growth no matter the ministries.

You want purpose-driven? Your purpose should be to love the Lord with all your heart and all your mind and all your soul. And from that, if the Spirit is in you, all the rest will fall into place. You won't need canned materials; you won't need anything else at all.