Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Interstate Churches

And no, I do not mean churches situated along the interstate.

Christianity Today is reporting on plans for Mars Hill church in Seattle to open a satellite group in Portland to get real-time feeds of the home church meetings with Mark Driscoll's preaching.  'Scuse me?  Are they serious?  I am having difficulty fathoming how many ways this is just plain wrong.  And this is not the first group to have done it.

I enjoyed the curt response from Chaplain Mike at Internet Monk.  These megachurches are completely missing the concept of the local church, the body of Christ, and the nature of community.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is why they are mega-churches. The masses do not want the local church. Mega-churches are tare gatherers. The local churches are wheat gathers. Does that sound right? In Him, Doc

Stephen Pohl said...

And Catholics can't phone in a confession. The Church and sacraments are incarnational. Got to be there in the body in both senses of the word.

Steve Bricker said...

Thanks, gentlemen. Mega-churches are tare-gatherers? Largely true. After the post I read a blog piece referencing the "crowd and core" model. If I remember correctly in marketing it's known as the 1% rule: market to 1000 people; of those 1% will consider the offer; of those 1% will buy in. That's just the opposite of a church being the body of Christ with members working in harmony so that Christ builds the church with him as its head.

PS: Is it providential that the first two responders are those I met on StudyBibleForum? Probably just coincidence.