Comments on: Mega Churches that are Family of God-centric

By: Hydrocodone.

Hydrocodone. — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:39:05 +0000

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By: brooks hanes

brooks hanes — Mon, 02 May 2005 16:51:48 +0000

Drew, I’ve not seen a mega church keep families together. The influence and power of megachurches creates a “need” for smaller churches to duplicate this dynamic. As a result, we have people in churches as small as 50 people who separate kids from parents as soon as they hit the parking lot.

Question: what is a church to do when the pastor won’t address the needs of the whole family in one meeting? What’s a church to do when the leadership won’t recognize that youth worship differently than retirees? Is the solution a holistic, family-centric service?

I’d love to hear your thoughts.

By: Robert Campbell

Robert Campbell — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:29:37 +0000

Good question. I have not seen such a thing. I cant think of even having seen it medium size churches (what is medium? isnt it 400-700?).

I just read Randy Frazee’s “Connecting Church” and he at least addresses the mixing of generations.

I liked the book at an attempt to combat the anti-communitarian tendancies of suburbia.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:51:00 +0000

I haven’t seen this done well but I like your categories. It’s true that often churches divide people into ’sin groups’ without even realising it. From what I can see, these large program focused churches seem to be Christ-centered on the outside but when you get up close many of them are quite program/social/internal-focused. It’s the same here in Australia.