And Another Thing...
Regarding my last post...
...what if more, smaller congregations was not just an accident of circumstance, or a side-effect of an increasingly hostile culture and society? What if smaller was actually intended? Not by us, obviously, since we're steeped in a culture that worships numerics and demographics and the success they are often combined to define. There is, after all, a bit of a precedent, of sorts.
"Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things - and the things that are not - to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God - that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written, 'Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.'" 1 Corinthians 1:26-31
How would small churches act and think and feel differently if they saw their smaller size not simply as an inevitability, but a blessing? Not as a source of pride, but as a source of confidence?
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