Brother, if those numbers represent, not just more buns in the pews, but more souls in the Kingdom, then I'd say you've just given a great example of a "good tree" demonstrating it's goodness by bearing "good fruit".
I expressed to a friend via email, today, my amazement that, in the wake of God's manifest desire to replace the Law and legalism with His love and grace, vis a vis sending His only Son, Jesus, to pay the price for the sin of the universe, so many Christians are STILL completely bound up in the very legalistic attitudes that Jesus dies to free them from.
It's almost as if Jesus death was, for them, of only minor effect. Yeah, they've been brought from eternal death to eternal life, but they've retained all of the judgmentalism and legalism of those who are still living under the Law. What; was the cross nothing more than "fire insurance"??
It really blows my mind, and it grieves the heart of God to see His redeemed ones making so little of the salvation for which He made The Supreme, and Most Holy sacrifice.
Actually, I am a she but thats OK.
I am a member of our church’s creative arts ministry and I am the executive producer for our Sunday service and am so honored and humbled that I was chosen to help the Lord bring the gospel to the unsaved. I can’t wait to go to church each Sunday to see what God does through the Creative Arts team.
I just wished the rest of our saved brothers and sisters could understand what we understand.
The link below is a sampling of some of our service — the best is the “Confessions of an Ex-Pharisee”.
http://www.gracecommunity.com/messages/