Multi-Site Church Madness
February 13th, 2008 by Carl Thomas.Have you ever noticed that multi-site church conferences are always held in one city? Why don’t all the speakers just tape their teachings onto a dvd and mail them out to everyone who wants them? Why have people fly in from all over the world if a video venue is so good?
Because it is not as good as being in the same room as the speaker. Has anyone seen a Spirit filled church do this successfully? Now, by Spirit filled, I don’t mean some of the staff has a “personal prayer language” that they reserve for times they are not on the mic. I mean a church that sees people healed, delivered, baptized in the Holy Ghost, giving out words of prophesy and anointed altar ministry. Could they do a video venue?
I don’t think so. How can a rhema word come if it was recorded yesterday in a different city? Is this nothing more than a warmed over Roman Catholic doctrine where the pope decides what people all over the world will hear each week? It does not matter if your community is in feast or famine, you will get the same word. Just had a death in the fellowship? You will get the same word as the fellowship that had a record attendance week.
And don’t let me get into the cult of personality issue.
Every time I see a new multi-site church campus I think of another preacher without a pulpit.
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Amen, Carl. You know you are preaching to the choir here. I want to hear a fresh word from the Lord. I mean, why leave the comfort of your home to watch a video. You could just turn on the TV!!!
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Carl, love your thought. I would love for them to place their stuff on DVD and send it to me. The west coast (name slips my memory) has a dvd and I thought it was great. I think that it would be difficult to field questions. However, if they were to use webex webinar like Ken Blanchard does (great free leadership resource), then they could teach and field questions at the same time. I like the fresh word and can’t live without. Question: how can we keep the fresh word and still reach the highest effectiveness? Example: I was a church where they had SAturday night services and that just about killed our pastoral staff. I have since started my own church where I vowed never to start a Saturday because of that. BUT, I have had an idea. VIDEO VENUE. It would take too long to explain the vision, but I’m feeling that God is leading us to try a few things.
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Amen. If it is multi-site I dont even turn up.
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“And don’t let me get into the cult of personality issue.”
Actually Carl, please do address the issue—its long over due.
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[...] wrote in my post multi-site church madness about my extreme displeasure regarding modern church growth techniques. Michael tried to bait me [...]
Bracy and others - rather than post a full discussion in the comment section, I have continued the though here http://www.revivalblog.com/2008/02/19/a-biblical-multi-site-vision/
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