The Safeguarding of The Gospel Message:

The Pump 

Water stored at the top of dams has power to drive massive electrical turbines, providing power for millions of people.  Municipal water towers hundreds of feet high drive water through faucets at a fixed pressure.  As water flows down hill however, it loses its potential to to work.  It has no power.  Only when raised to its original height can it have the same power as it originally had.  This is why municipalities have pumps to raise water into the holding tanks.

And so it is with the gospel message.  Multiplication can only be sustained if the purity and clarity of the gospel message is not "flowing downhill" with each successive generation.  But if successive generations of believers are not discipled to the same level as the previous generation, the message of the gospel gradually loses its power.  It becomes progressively distorted, confused, or camouflaged behind a veil of religious sounding rhetoric.

As the gospel message becomes progressively corrupted or camouflaged, great evangelistic campaigns that start with a bang invariably end in a whimper.  And the architects of campaign after campaign stand on the sidelines bewildered over their failure.

To win the world for Christ, mathematics requires that evangelism must be done at a sustainable rate.  If it is not sustainable, it cannot win the world for Christ.  And it can only be sustained if the gospel message is not gradually becoming corrupted.  Well thought out doctrinal statements that sit on a shelf gathering dust are well intended, but cannot prevent the downhill slide.  Every generation of believers must be discipled to a clarity and maturity of the gospel message.  If they are not, the gospel message is destined to gradually corrupt into religious rhetoric.  And if salt loses its saltiness, wherewith can it be made salty again?

This is the mission of Clear Gospel Campaign . . . to disciple believers to a maturity and clarity of the gospel.  It is a pump that helps ensure the power of the gospel message does not erode over time.  Only when this happens can evangelism be sustained at a constant rate over time.

Chapter 8: The Safeguarding the Gospel Message