Wholly Holy

I dont know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing...

David (Paul) Yonggi Cho came to Christ through The Salvation Army... He is the founder of the worlds largest church, Yoido Full Gospel Church! On February 20, 1993, the Yoido Full Gospel Church was recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records as the Largest Church (700,000 membership) in the world! (and that was years ago!) Today it is said there is over a million members! It has over 23,000 cell groups! Chek out more

Brian Houston is senior pastor and founder of Hillsong church, Australias largets church, He too has some Salvation Army background. His parents were ministers in The Salvation Army. Hillsong now has thosands of members, has heaps of music cds (one actually made it to number 1 in Australia!) and is again cell based... Check out more: Brian Houston, Hillsong

The Evans family also has some roots in The Salvation Army. Russel Evans is founder of Planetshakers church which rapidly growing in Melbourne. Again cell based. And his brother Andrew is senior pastor at Paradise community church in Adelaide. Another church with thousands of members, and again cell based. Check out more, Planetshakers, Paradise

Imagine what The Salvation Army would look like if we could have held onto and harnassed the potential of these guys! How many more are out there? How many more are leaving The Salvation Army? What will The Salvation Army do to prevent this from happening again and again?

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Do people think that The Salvation Armys mission is only to the poor and not the mainstream? (I dont think so, look at song 830, 'The world for God!') Thats another blog topic though...

Also, how cool are cell based churches... As one of my last blogs said, all the growing chuches in the world are cell based... Does anyone wanna or feel called to start one up with me in Lower Templestowe?hmmmm....