In a recent post on his blog, New York Times best-selling author and Texas-based pastor Ed Young Jr. addresses the release of Outreach Magazine’s annual “100 Fastest-Growing Churches” issue. While admiring the publication, Ed Young notes that the ranking has the potential to cause envy and doubt among church leaders who don’t make it on the list. He urges fellow pastors not to become discouraged by attendance number comparisons and instead consider more qualitative methods of measuring church growth.