Sunday Adelaja, founding pastor to the 30,000-member God’s Embassy Church in Kiev, Ukraine, was the featured guest of a teleconference hosted by Strang Communications, the publisher of Charisma and Ministry Today magazines.
God’s Embassy Church boasts more than two million converts and 600 church plants worldwide.
During the Q&A, Adelaja emphasised that the church should not be pulpit-focused, but rather concentrate on how to reveal Jesus Christ to people if they want to experience growth.
The Nigerian-born Christian leader used his own church as an example, saying that it first experienced massive growth after four fruitless years when he started to go out and feed the poor and take care of the drug addicts and alcoholics in Ukraine.
He also encouraged every single church member to influence and impact the culture for God.
“Do not let your people get comfortable with sitting down in the pews,” Adelaja advised a pastor who submitted a question during the teleconference. “You have to literally push them out of the pews and strengthen them so they can go out there and invade the darkness of the world because they are the light of the world.
“You have to really keep on pushing them to believe in themselves that they can change the world for God.”
