What’s more important: sending capacity or seating capacity? What if too many of our churches have emphasized one to the neglect of the other?


What’s more important: sending capacity or seating capacity? What if too many of our churches have emphasized one to the neglect of the other?

In this episode, Executive Director-Treasurer Todd Unzicker sits down with Andrew Hopper, pastor of Mercy Hill Church in Greensboro, to discuss the importance of strategic church growth and how it can fuel our members to go to the nations. 

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Podcast Highlights

  • “I had it in the back of my head: ‘What if our largest church plant interest meeting in the history of our church was for the church that was going to the hardest, most unreached place, the farthest away?’ And, honestly, it was double any other interest meeting we’ve ever had — over 120 people were there.” (6:56)
  • “We’ve got to understand that churches are being made, in my opinion, they’re being made to feel kind of guilty about what is a clear evangelism strategy in the New Testament.” (14:51)
  • “Do not take the bait of what our churchy culture wants you to do and push you into a lane of either a growth church or a sending church. Don’t take that bait. It’s a false dichotomy.” (19:57) 
  • Give to support church planting efforts through the N.C. Missions Offering (NCMO) at givencmo.com.
  • Visit breakinggrowthbarriers.com to learn more and register for the upcoming Breaking Barriers conference at Mercy Hill Church in Greensboro.
  • Interested in planting a church or becoming a sending church? Connect with SendNC at SendNC.org.