With Easter just around the corner, I want to encourage you to think strategically to prepare for God to send you people who need to know Him.

After years of doing crusades, the Billy Graham Association was able to predict, with astonishing accuracy, how many people will come forward for prayer on any given night. How? Because the number always correlates to how many volunteers they have lined up to receive those who respond!

God did not send more people to Billy Graham than he was ready to receive. In the same way, he will not send more people to you than you are ready to receive.

So what can you do? The same thing Billy Graham did. Prepare in a way that enables God to open the floodgates into your church. If you are truly ready, He will send people your way…

…However, if you don’t think through your strategy, write it down and then implement it, you’ll be completely unprepared to capture what God is pouring out. The choice is yours!

Commit your work to the Lord, and then your plans will succeed. – Proverbs 16:3

Your partner in ministry,

Nelson

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About Nelson Searcy

Nelson Searcy is an experienced church growth strategist, pastor, church planter and coach, consulting with churches around the world. As founder of Church Leader Insights and the Renegade Pastors Network, he has personally trained more than 3,500 church leaders in over 45 denominations through live events, seminars and monthly coaching. Nelson is also the Founding and Lead Pastor of The Journey Church, with locations across New York City and in Boca Raton, FL. Nelson and his church routinely appear on lists such as “The 50 Most Influential Churches” and “The 25 Most Innovative Leaders.” He is the author of over 100 church growth resources and 18+ books, including The Renegade Pastor: Abandoning Average in Your Life, Ministry and The Difference Maker: Using Your Everyday Life for Eternal Impact, and At the Cross with the People Who Were There. He and his wife, Kelley, have one son, Alexander.