Evotional.com - Mark Batterson

I spoke to some pastors last weekend. I was introduced as the pastor of the fasting growing church plant in the Potomac District. I sort of cringed. Then I got a piece of paper with the stats for all church plants in the past fourteen years quantifying it. I came back to the office and put it in the paper shredder.
In one sense I'm grateful for the growth we've experienced, but we can't afford to read our press clippings. And the truth is that I don't think we've seen anything yet. I think the church you grow up in sets some subconscious standards for you. So I feel like we're a "small church" because the church I grew up in had about 3,000 attenders.
We've got a lot of growing to do spiritually and numerically.
The Laws of Church Planting
We sort of defy the "laws of church planting." I keep hearing things like, "If you don't break 100 in your first year or 200 in your second year you never will." The truth is that we didn't do either. It took us five years to grow from 19 to 250. Most of our growth has happened in the last 2-3 years.
Here's the point. We've come a long way. We have a long way to go.
We just need to keep praying like it depends on God and working like it depends on us.