The "All-by-Itself-Principle"

The secret of growing churches does not consist in pushing or pulling the church in human strength and efforts -- but in releasing and developing the potential God himself uses to build His church. Then growth occurs all by itself! This is what the Kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts, and grows; though he does not know how. All by itself the soil produces grain -- first the stalk, then the head and then full kernel in the head. As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sicle to it, because the harvest come. -- Mark 4:26-29

The church is designed by God to grow so growth happens automatically if we remove the obstacles that prevent growth. Growing churches use this growth princple.