Saturday 25 August 2007

Large churches

All the evidence that I'm aware of suggests that individual congregations above the size of 1000 are of the antichrist. At least in Australia. I suppose in the US or Korea things may be different.

Craig Schwarze has a discussion going on about it here.

Biblically speaking, the only really large church I am aware of is the one that met at Sinai in Exodus 19—600 000 men or so plus women and children (referred to as the 'church of the Lord' in Deuteronomy 5:22). It was a very big church, although of course any mega-church leader worth their salt would scoff at such numbers today.

Be that as it may, they all without exception heard the voice of the LORD through his personally selected preacher, and all without exception died in the wilderness for their disobedience.

So I don't know if I'm being untheological here, but it's the small church for me. Anything above two hundred starts getting ridiculous.

3 comments:

Neil Cameron (One Salient Oversight) said...

Anything above two hundred starts getting ridiculous.

You know your being so arrogant here Gordo. You're taking a completely untheological line here. You're unjustly criticising other brothers in Christ for being different to you.

It's obvious that anything above ONE HUNDRED starts getting ridiculous!

;)

Anonymous said...

3000 at Pentecost?

Gordon Cheng said...

12 plus a few friends at Pentecost, running an impromptu evangelistic meeting.