Charles Spurgeon once encouraged pastors to:
Contemplate at the outset the possibility of having a church of soul-winners. Do not succumb to the usual idea that we can only gather a few useful workers, and that the rest of the community must inevitably be a dead weight: it may possibly so happen, but do not set out with that notion or it will be verified. The usual need not be the universal; better things are possible than anything yet attained; set your aim high and spare no effort to reach it. Labor to gather a church alive for Jesus, every member energetic to the full, and the whole in incessant activity for the salvation of men. To this end there must be the best of preaching to feed the host into strength, continual prayers to bring down the power from on high, and the most heroic example on your own part to fire their zeal (quoted in Mark Dever, The Gospel and Personal Evangelism, 117).
Let's aim high to be alive for Jesus today!
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