There are more people in the denominational churches.

The second reason there are more observable results from preaching the gospel in evangelical churches than among the saints gathered to the name of the Lord is because there is a greater number of people in those churches who are engaged in evangelistic work. Psalm 68:11 says: "The Lord gave the word;greatwas the army of those who proclaimed the good news". I emphasize the word "great" in this verse because a greater number of people involved in a work generally achieve greater results. It is simple to understand: those in the denominations have more people involved and naturally obtain more results. Those in the evangelical churches should be seen as an example of diligence in evangelistic work. In fact they make us feel ashamed.

I know that the results we hear about in the denominations are astonishing, but the same numbers can deceive us. Let me give an example. A friend told me that in his church not a week goes by without at least one person being saved! I asked him how many people there are in his church and, if my memory does not fail me, he said around 3500. To make the calculation easier, let us suppose, by way of illustration, that this number were 5000. This means five thousand people involved so that about 50 people are saved every year, since there are 52 weeks in a year. But suppose we took a zero off the number of members of that congregation and there were only 500 people there. How many would be saved per year in this case? Using the same proportion, five. If we took another zero off that number we would have only 50 people in that church, which is more or less the size of most assemblies of the brothers and sisters gathered to the name of the Lord. How many people would be saved per year using the same average? Well, half a person, or one person every two years.

Viewed from this angle the numbers do not seem so intimidating. Their success rate in relation to the number of people is not much better than what happens among the saints gathered to the name of the Lord. Therefore, the next time someone tells me that every week a person is saved in their mega church, I will say: "Is that all? With so many people there, one would expect them to have a better result than that!". So then, let us not be carried away by statistics. Our first responsibility is to do the will of God and leave the results with Him. When it comes to the gospel, it is God who gives the "growth" in the harvest of souls (1 Cor. 3:6).

I would just like to add that if you are seriously concerned about the sad results of evangelistic work among us, perhaps you should think about getting involved in it. It is common for those who criticize this weakness to be the very ones who seem to do very little about it.

IN SUMMARY: There is more blessing in evangelistic work in the evangelical churches than among the saints gathered to the name of the Lord because God blesses His Word wherever and by whomever it is preached, and the people in the denominations have been more diligent than we have in this work. Furthermore, there is in those places a greater number of people engaged in this work and statistically this leads to greater results.