two and a half decades as pastor our church did grow. But it wasn’t just that it got bigger. It was a church with a lot of vitality. I have always agreed with the late Findley Edge, a Baptist scholar and personal mentor, who said, “People will endure anything in a church except an absence of vitality.” So many times I was asked by those who visited our church, “What produced the dynamic spirit of worship I felt while worshipping in your services?” There was only one answer: People were being added to