�C�mo lograr que m�s de 5,000 personas asistan a tu iglesia?

Casi todos los pastores sienten la presi�n de llenar los asientos. Mientras m�s personas, m�s �xito, estabilidad y mayor influencia divina, �no es as�? A menudo, en su af�n por ver fruto y crecimiento, los pastores y l�deres adoptan mecanismos mundanos para el crecimiento de la iglesia que terminan socavando el mismo llamado que Dios les ha dado.

Charles Spurgeon, el pr�ncipe de los predicadores, pastore� a m�s de 5,000 personas en una �poca mucho antes que las "mega iglesias" fueran comunes. Pero quiz�s te sorprenda saber que la visi�n ministerial de Spurgeon no era pragm�tica. No tom� prestadas las �mejores pr�cticas� de los l�deres empresariales de su tiempo. Su visi�n del ministerio era decididamente b�blica y teol�gica--y es una visi�n que deber�amos adoptar m�s de un siglo despu�s.

En Spurgeon el pastor, Geoff Chang, director de la Biblioteca Spurgeon en el Seminario Midwestern, muestra c�mo Spurgeon model� una visi�n teol�gica del ministerio en �reas como la predicaci�n, el bautismo y la Cena del Se�or, la membres�a significativa, el liderazgo b�blico, la formaci�n de l�deres y m�s.

How would you get more than 5,000 people to show up at your church?

Almost every pastor feels the pressure to get people in the doors. More people means more success, more stability, and more godly influence, right? Often, in their zeal for fruit and growth, pastors and church leaders adopt worldly mechanisms for church growth that end up undermining the very call God has given them.

Charles Spurgeon, the Prince of Preachers, was a pastor to well over 5,000 people in a day long before "mega-churches" were the norm. But you might be surprised to know that Spurgeon's vision for ministry was not pragmatic. He did not borrow "best practices" from the business leaders of his day. Rather, his ministry vision was decidedly, staunchly biblical and theological in nature--and it was a ministry vision we ought to adopt more than a century later.

In Spurgeon el pastor (Spurgeon the Pastor), Geoff Chang, director of the Spurgeon Library at Midwestern Seminary, shows how Spurgeon models a theological vision of ministry in preaching, baptism and the Lord's supper, meaningful church membership, biblical church leadership, leadership development, and more.