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Originally Posted by Aquila
Are you ready for this kind of thing? Hypothetically speaking... What if they don't want a smaller building? Often, the elder is challenged to hear the will of the Lord... through the body. Hense being a servant of God's elect.
The church I attend has all Christian backgrounds in it (but they are mostly Baptist). We have well over 70 house churches, many are branches that aren't registered. In all we have nearly 2,000 members. We also have a rather large campus. More traditional meetings are held on Sunday afternoons. However, most teaching, discipleship, and spiritual discipline is carried out in the house churches. It's a great way to do church.
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My thinking is that if they want a building, leave it to them. I look at Moses and the Tabernacle. God wanted to dwell with the people, but didn't demand that the tabernacle be built by taxing the people. Instead, He told Moses to lay out the idea and then ask the people to respond with an offering. IF they wanted to build the tabernacle, they would have to make the offerings. There was no mandatory tithe to pay for it. No threats of death or curses. Just lay out what God would like to do and ask for the people to respond if they wanted to do so. That is what I would like to do if down the road the people of the home meetings desired a building of some sort.
Im not against large campuses. I am against using extortion and threats of curses to make people pay for things they don't want or need.
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