Reaching the world with the gospel involves two approaches. One of these is growing the church—increasing the number of members. Bringing the gospel to the world is a sizable task. It requires an “army” of considerable size. Growing the church as rapidly as possible helps to build such an army. We have been quite successful at growing the church. Our membership is now more than seven million around the world. But we have been far less successful at the other approach: reaching the unreached, effectively