Are We Making Disciples or Just Big Crowds?

[Ezra]

Are We Making Disciples or Just Big Crowds?


am convinced that too many evangelical churches in the United States are overly fixated on bigness, excitement and individualistic improvement, and that we don’t often realize it because we can often achieve a kind of success focusing on those things that give the impression we are on the right track.

 

[Helen]

Agree, sadly they have been taught that quantity is more important than quality. I know pastors here who have been given the cold shoulder because the 'only' have 50 members. So they are not allowed to attend the monthly 'all city' pastors prayer meeting.

 

[aspen]

It is hard to be a follower of Christ with all the noise in our society. I just want peace

 

[Ezra]

It is hard to be a follower of Christ with all the noise in our society. I just want peace

what did jesus say in john 16? these things i write unto you that in me ye shall peace. in this world ye shall have tribulation . be of good cheer i have over come the world

 

[Ezra]

Agree, sadly they have been taught that quantity is more important than quality. I know pastors here who have been given the cold shoulder because the 'only' have 50 members. So they are not allowed to attend the monthly 'all city' pastors prayer meeting.

the revivals started in small churches not big city churches of thousands of members

 

[Nancy]

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Agree, sadly they have been taught that quantity is more important than quality. I know pastors here who have been given the cold shoulder because the 'only' have 50 members. So they are not allowed to attend the monthly 'all city' pastors prayer meeting.

"I know pastors here who have been given the cold shoulder because the 'only' have 50 members."
Whaaaat???! Whoa, way to go "church"...NOT. That is unbelievable Helen, God will surely NOT forget their snobbery!

 

[Pearl]

Are We Making Disciples or Just Big Crowds?


am convinced that too many evangelical churches in the United States are overly fixated on bigness, excitement and individualistic improvement, and that we don’t often realize it because we can often achieve a kind of success focusing on those things that give the impression we are on the right track.

I agree with you. It would be better if the church focused more on the quality of its members' faith and less on the quantity of members.

 

[Willie T]

How can people disciple who have never been discipled themselves?

 

[Nancy]

How can people disciple who have never been discipled themselves?

Ha, just like the "real world"...babies raising babies

 

[Episkopos]

How can people disciple who have never been discipled themselves?

Too true brother...

 

[Episkopos]

Ha, just like the "real world"...babies raising babies

The spiritually blind leading others into more blindness.

 

[Pearl]

If the Church is doing it right it will grow as people are attracted to Jesus rather than the church. And then like a living organism it should split and grow some more and split again but in a natural way rather than through a divisive split. But too often churches are insular and inward looking, catering to their members and forgetting the world outside the door and not making much of an effort to connect with the church down the road.

 

[Enoch111]

...am convinced that too many evangelical churches in the United States are overly fixated on bigness, excitement and individualistic improvement...

True. That seems to be the present trend. But not the biblical pattern.

 

[Ezra]

How can people disciple who have never been discipled themselves?

good question

 

[SkyWriting]

How can people disciple who have never been discipled themselves?

The Holy Spirit speaks direct to every heart. The Helper.

 

[Helen]

The Holy Spirit speaks direct to every heart. The Helper.

Agree...
Nice to see that you are 'spreading yourself' around the forum boards now.