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Biological Church Growth
Biological growth results from raising and retaining the children of members within the church. In practice, biological growth rarely succeeds except in close-knit and small communities where the church is the sole source of social activity and entertainment as well as being the religious focal point. Strangely, the Baptist and Pentecostal Churches seem to do better in this area than others. People go to church because they always have, and their parents and grandparents did!
Biological Evangelism
Tozer grasped this truth very clearly when he wrote, "One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always." Young people today reject the concept of biological growth because they wouldn't go to their parents' churches anymore than their parents would go to their youth group. Some "biological growth" churches actually grow even though they do nothing!
"Biological Church Growth."
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