So great fear came upon all the church and upon all who heard these things. And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. And they were all with one accord in Solomon's Porch. Yet none of the rest dared join them, but the people esteemed them highly. And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women…
Acts 5:11-14

There have always been those who want to create formulas of how to grow Christ’s church. That, in and of itself, is a problem because Jesus said the Church is His, that He will build it, and that the gates of Hades cannot prevail against it! (Matthew 16:18). So anytime anyone other than Jesus has an idea about how to grow the church, reject it.

What we are to do is simple: (1) Preach Christ and the Gospel (2 Timothy 4:1-5) even if that appears to not be working. (2) Abide in Christ and love one another (John 15). Beyond that, gimmicks imagined and implemented by humans are almost always surely to be misguided.

There are some rather strange and counter-intuitive ways in which the Lord has been pleased to build His Church. He killed Ananias and Sapphira. People were terrified. The Church grew. What does this tell us? Not that we have to see some people killed, but that the fear of God (and His hatred of sin) often has much to do with revival. God often does His greatest work not by entertaining us, but by terrifying us. (Remember Israel as the foot of Mt. Sinai when God gave the Ten Commandments—Exodus 20?)

Let us seek the Lord in holy reverence of His authoritative righteousness. Let us fear Him, and pray for revival in our day, in our land, and in this world!