January 2010 Lamplighter
December 30th, 2009
From the Pastor’s Desk
Dr. John DeBrine hosts a daily radio show on WDAC (Lancaster) known as Songtime USA. In a recent broadcast, he made the following statement: “I was reading that in Africa, particularly in Nigeria, it takes two people an average of one month to lead someone to Christ. In America it takes about 95 people a whole year to lead someone to Christ and the thing that worries me is we are beginning to enter into an age in the life of the church here in America where the majority of people in the congregation have never led anyone to Christ.”
That’s a bit of a startling statement for us to ponder. For Brethren, who supposedly take the Great Commission seriously, it causes us to see declining membership in a different light.