[Jack Shephard]

A big church is good and that is what I am used too as well. I have been to both big and little churches. I have seen and heard it said that you can fall through the cracks at a large church. While that does happen I think that is almost an excuse at times to try and help discredit the larger churches. I went to a good size church in TN and now a good size one here in AZ. The thing about big churches is you may not know everybody, but you should know somebody. If you go to a larger church and you do not know anyone then it is your fault, IMO. Many if not all of these larger churches have alot of 'things' in action to keep people from falling through the cracks as it were.

I know that as Pianoman said that sometimes the back door is just as open as the front one. That does happen in smaller churches too. No church can hang on to everyone that walks through the front door. I have seen Anthony Mangun say several times if they just reached around half of the 'backsliders' then the church would grow by almost half. I also know a smaller church I attended could not hold on to many people. They were in a college town and the leadership and most of the saints were older. So it does go both ways, IMO. But I vote for a little larger church. I could go to CC in Nashville and the country church too, but that is me. I do not know a stranger...at least I am told that.