Subject: Which Church is the right one? |
Bible Note: Hi EdB, your comment, However I can't stop thinking how many neighborhood churches you could build for that amount of money. How many local churches you have enough pastors to place. How much money could be saved not having to contend with things like traffic control, buying land for large parking lots and such. That is exactly what we are doing and the new additional church is about 10 miles south and is referred to as our South Campus. All of our pastors will doing double duty until it gets on it’s feet, so to speak. Many of our congregation will switch to the new church and eliminate the attendance problem that we have now. Your second notation reads, Is bigger better? I once read a magazine called "In Fisherman". In that magazine the editor always asked the same question. Is bigger better? His contention was we should look to nature. If bigger was better we would have 3 foot butterflies. I always think of that when I see big churches. Are they what Jesus intended or have we fallen for what the world tells us, we must be bigger? What should we do, just tell people that they aren’t welcome and not let them in? To my knowledge this is the fourth time that the church has branched off to other location within a 40-mile diameter and they are all doing well. As was the discussion and I will say it again, the Lord is faithful to his Word and if it is taught properly it will cause churches to grow and without the help of the carnival style sideshows and all the gimmicks that are employed now days. The following still works and there are those who still look for the truth and where it is disseminated. 2 Tim. 4:1-4 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; [2] Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. [3] For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; [4] And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. CDBJ |