far the best way to build a congregation full of disciple-making disciples is to assemble and train a band of co-workers to labour alongside you. - Colin Marshall

because our goal is not to grow churches, but to make disciples.

O foco [do treinamento]... é o ensino e o exemplo, que levam a um caráter específico e não a uma competência ou habilidade específica.” (pp. 79)

But the emphasis is not on the growth of the congregation as a structure — in numbers, finances and success — but on the growth of the gospel, as it is spoken and re-spoken under the power of the Spirit. In fact, New Testament congregations, as far as we can tell, were usually small gatherings meeting in houses. They were outwardly unimpressive, and had minimal infrastructure. But God kept drawing people into them by the gospel. Or to put it another way, Christ kept doing what he said he would do in Matthew 16. He kept building his church.