In the landscape of 20th-century missiology, few figures cast a shadow as long as David Yonggi Cho, the founder of Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea. At its peak, the church boasted a membership of hundreds of thousands, serving as a modern archetype of the megachurch phenomenon. However, the proliferation of his ministry was not without theological scrutiny. In his book More Than Numbers , Cho addresses the tension between the biblical mandate to make disciples and the modern proclivity for statistical accumulation. This paper aims to dissect the central thesis of Cho’s work, positing that the text serves as a manual for "organic growth" where numbers are the symptom, rather than the disease, of ecclesial vitality.
In the landscape of 20th-century missiology, few figures cast a shadow as long as David Yonggi Cho, the founder of Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea. At its peak, the church boasted a membership of hundreds of thousands, serving as a modern archetype of the megachurch phenomenon. However, the proliferation of his ministry was not without theological scrutiny. In his book More Than Numbers , Cho addresses the tension between the biblical mandate to make disciples and the modern proclivity for statistical accumulation. This paper aims to dissect the central thesis of Cho’s work, positing that the text serves as a manual for "organic growth" where numbers are the symptom, rather than the disease, of ecclesial vitality.
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