The early church didn’t explode because the disciples had good theology. It exploded when they stood up in public and publicly owned the outrageous claim that Jesus had risen from the dead.
Hendricks points to the same pattern in 1970s Unificationist growth: Oakland, 3 members → hundreds. New Hampshire, 7 members → 40 in 3 months. No top-down orders, no programs. Pure zeal — members convinced something real had happened, telling everyone.
The Holy Spirit isn’t triggered by internal correctness. It moves through public proclamation. The act of witnesses going out and speaking is the specific condition under which the Spirit moves in power.
This reverses the instinct to perfect internal content before sharing externally. You don’t get ready and then go. You go, and the going makes you ready.
The implication for MNFC: every time members share faith with someone outside the community — even imperfectly — it creates conditions for the Spirit to move. A culture of internal preparation without external witness is a culture of spiritual maintenance, not growth.
Growth stops when witnessing stops, not when the programs get bad.