Many of us who serve at a church were looking forward to this Easter weekend that just occurred. Some of our churches had special service programs and Easter egg hunts for the children. This was the weekend for us to go all out on social media, in our communities, and promote Easter weekend like crazy. It really is great and incredible being able to do that to reach the community and invite people who don’t know God, but are we really looking at our reasoning behind this? Are we doing this for the numbers? Are we doing it so that we can become the next big church in our state? In our country? In the world? It’s so easy for us to emphasize the amount of people that showed up to Easter service but we need to make sure to take it a step further and follow up with what we committed to.

At every church in America at least one person attended a church that has never been to that church before, well, I assume this simply because it’s Easter and some people probably feel guilty of not going to church all year that they figured it would be a good idea to attend on “Resurrection Sunday.” So now the question is, what are we doing to build that relationship with that individual? I’m pretty sure attendance increased by a good percentage at your church, I know it did at my church, but are we taking the necessary steps this week to make disciples? Numbers are not going to matter if people don’t have a personal relationship with God. If we focus on the numbers we had this Easter Sunday and try to build from that momentum, our churches will die because of lack of discipleship. Let’s make it a goal to focus on discipleship.