Archive for November 27th, 2007
My Megachurch Confessions [5/8]
One Of Many
With this post, we start moving towards the not-so-good part of working and worshipping in a megachurch environment.As we start to talk about this negative side of big churches, please remember our premise when we started out on this series: that with everything there usually are two sides of the coin, and that the real truth is to be found somewhere in the balance between the good and the bad. Life isn’t always as simple as being black and white, and mostly not so when we talk about matters as abstract as faith, church and a life in ministry.
That said, let’s continue…
For me personally, one of the biggest drawbacks of worshipping on Sunday with about 7 000 other people is just that, the loss of the personal touch. It becomes just darn near impossible to actually have any kind of personal interaction when you are overwhelmed with so many people at ministry events, worship services, meetings and various other programs. Research has shown that a normal human being are capable of fostering a close, personal relationship with 14 people at the most, at any given time. This number includes friends, colleagues, family and fellow worshippers.
Even Jesus modelled this when He chose to change the world with 12, and even then there was still one who fell away!
I guess my confession would be this: in a megachurch environment there will always be that one person or family, that just falls through the cracks, that nobody notices or just keeps getting overlooked by church and ministry leaders.
Have you ever felt like a number at church? Speak up!
If you want to read up some more, read this post by Les Puryear at his blog.
