Bill Sullivan became interested in the challenge of assisting churches to break the 200 barrier. A statistical analysis of Nazarene Churches in 1983 discovered that “nearly 90 percent have fewer than two hundred members. Indeed over half of the churches have fewer than seventy-five members.”25 After conducting further research to see what factors caused churches to remain below 200 in size, as well as how churches effectively broke the 200 barrier, in 1988 he published Ten Steps to Breaking the