One day I realized something. Jesus never had a youth minister. He never had a worship guy either. The same goes for Paul, Peter, and everyone else who spread the gospel in the New Testament. They had an understanding of the good news, a desire to spread it, and the ability to do so, but they didn’t have much else.

Why do we think we need so many resources to make disciples? A few days ago I wrote about the importance of making disciples instead of focusing on the church as a whole, and maybe these two topics are related. Could it be that we are obsessed with youth ministers, babysitting, comfortable chairs, contemporary visuals, great singers, and the like, because we know that we’re not really making disciples? Because we know that if we take away the frills then we won’t have much of a church after all?

If you were to take away all the fun extras of your church, all the things that Jesus and his apostles didn’t have, would your numbers decrease? Would they decrease a lot? If so, is it really a church at all?