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CHRISTIAN EVANGELISTIC MISSION
GROWING TOMORROW'S CHURCHES...TODAY
in cash now and, as a result, choose the million dollars. However, by doing so, they would have just cheated themselves out of close to $10 million!
This story illustrates the power of multiplication, and also a problem with today’s Church. The population multiplies, while the Church merely adds, and addition is always surpassed by multiplication. The “Church to Population” ratio is declining. In 1900, there were 27 churches per 10,000 people. In 1950, there were 17 churches per 10,000 people. And in 1987, there were 12 churches per 10,000 people. The population in our state is now growing at a more rapid rate than in years past, and some areas are towards the top in terms of growth rate as compared to the rest of the midwestern states. The need to plant, nurture, and grow churches today is becoming critically important to meet these changes.
Just as the apostles planted churches in the book of Acts to expand the Kingdom, Christian Evangelistic Mission (C.E.M.) has been planting and growing independent Christian churches in the state of Iowa since 1957.
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If you were asked the following question, “Would you rather take $1 million in cash right now, or a penny today, two pennies tomorrow, four pennies the next day, eight pennies the following day and a repeated doubling amount of pennies each day for the remainder of a full 30-day month?" Most people would instantly compare the short-term value of a handful of pennies collected over a month’s time to receiving a million dollars
