"How large is your church? How many members does it have on its rolls?"
An implication in questions like these is that somehow one can measure an organization's impact on the world or its influence in people's lives simply by counting the number of members and then calculating some ratio of membership size to extent of influence.
However, such a ratio misses the point, particularly when we refer to the spiritual influence of our church or the wide-ranging impact of even a single instance of healing brought about through the application of its teachings. "One on God's side is a majority"; and Christ Jesus said, "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." Matt. 18:20;
