was profoundly effective. In 1555 there were just five underground Protestant churches in France. Four years later in 1559 that number had grown to more than one hundred. By 1562, a further three years later, it was estimated that there were over 2,000 churches in France preaching the gospel with an excess of one million people in attendance. Calvin did not just plant churches. He planted mega-churches that in turn planted more churches! True church history is a history of church planting. Calvin said:
