Involvement: Key to Effectiveness

From John MacArthur:

They [Jerusalem church was] effective because they had total involvement. Every church suffers from the syndrome of hangers on. You know I told you there are people who make things happen. There are the people who watch things happen, and there are people who haven't figured out what's happening. And that's what the church suffers from. There are always people in the church who hang on and do nothing. It's a great traumatic experience in their spiritual life to be here in Sunday morning, let along to be involved in communicating Christ during the week, or be out on Sunday night, or be in a Bible study on Thursday evening, or whatever goes on in opportunities and so forth. It is a great thing just for them to manage to get it together for an hour or an hour and twenty minutes. But the Jerusalem church didn't have any of that. They had total involvement. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they all spoke the word with boldness. Everybody was doing it. Now that's impact, right? No dead weight. Total involvement.