Mega-Church Vs Small-Church

[Big Boy Johnson]

some churches lack solid teaching.

That should read the majority of churches not only lack solid teaching, they are instead teaching false doctrine.

 

[Davy]

I belong to a mega-church, but I am always amazed by the number of people, including fellow Christians, who hold very strong negative opinions about every mega-church, without any knowledge of how any of those individual churches are run or operated.
No church is perfect and no church is good or bad , because of it’s size. Mega-churches, because of their large size tend to be well-known, therefore any misdeeds in them, real or imagined, spread far and wide, as opposed to a small-church, that is less known. The wrong things can happen in any size church, but the bigger you are , the more and bigger the publicity.

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Nothing wrong with a mega-church, if it is in accordance with God's Word, particularly per Apostle Paul's Epistles. And since it is a large congregation, it ought to be able to afford having a Bible scholar of the Hebrew and Greek as a Teacher as their sole duty, for that was one of the main jobs of the Hebrew priest, to go through all of God's Word line upon line, reading it, and giving the people the meaning. That means chapter by chapter, line upon line Bible teaching. Where can one find that today? Some churches, but not that many.

Small country churches are pretty much left on their own, they will have preachers picked from their organization denomination if they belong to a denomination. And most often, they only fit the evangelist role, which is not a scholarly Bible teacher, but one mainly called to preach The Gospel. This is why those churches struggle when it comes to teaching the congregation that had already heard and believed The Gospel, many, many years before, and over time are supposed become Bible teachers themselves (Heb.5).

There's a mega-church near my sister's house. Its buildings are HUGE. I know several brethren that go there. The main thing I get from them, is the church attracts all this entertainment from Country music stars out of Nashville. It's like they are using entertainment shows to attract followers. I don't know if they have Biblical scholar teachers, because none of that was mentioned to me, only how great the music and entertainment was.

 

[TechWord]

Nothing wrong with a mega-church, if it is in accordance with God's Word, particularly per Apostle Paul's Epistles. And since it is a large congregation, it ought to be able to afford having a Bible scholar of the Hebrew and Greek as a Teacher as their sole duty, for that was one of the main jobs of the Hebrew priest, to go through all of God's Word line upon line, reading it, and giving the people the meaning. That means chapter by chapter, line upon line Bible teaching. Where can one find that today? Some churches, but not that many.

Small country churches are pretty much left on their own, they will have preachers picked from their organization denomination if they belong to a denomination. And most often, they only fit the evangelist role, which is not a scholarly Bible teacher, but one mainly called to preach The Gospel. This is why those churches struggle when it comes to teaching the congregation that had already heard and believed The Gospel, many, many years before, and over time are supposed become Bible teachers themselves (Heb.5).

There's a mega-church near my sister's house. It's buildings are HUGE. I know several brethren that go there. The main thing I get from them, is the church attracts all this entertainment from Country music stars out of Nashville. It's like they are using entertainment to attract followers. I don't know if they have Biblical scholar teachers, because none of that was mentioned to me, only how great the music and entertainment was.

Thanks for your insights and honesty.

 

[Ezra]

I belong to a mega-church, but I am always amazed by the number of people, including fellow Christians, who hold very strong negative opinions about every mega-church, without any knowledge of how any of those individual churches are run or operated.
No church is perfect and no church is good or bad , because of it’s size. Mega-churches, because of their large size tend to be well-known, therefore any misdeeds in them, real or imagined, spread far and wide, as opposed to a small-church, that is less known. The wrong things can happen in any size church, but the bigger you are , the more and bigger the publicity.

if you belong to a mega church and you have your needs met so be it... i prefer smaller churches but thats me

 

[MatthewG]

Neither one of them really matter.

It's the relationship with Yahavah, in and through Yeshua that truly matters. Living by the Spirit to love your neighbor as yourself.

Just cause ya go to one church or another, doesn't mean anything.