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I get the idea from some that small groups (small churches) are not what folks want in most other countries. They supposedly want big and bigger.
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Where are you getting your data? Do they "want big and bigger" because the states have marketed the mega church as a cash cow or do they think bigger is better?
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David, the leadership in other countries are watching to much "Christian TV" and listening to too many american missionaries.
That said, home fellowships are flourishing around the globe. I've found more manifest presence of God in home churches than in the IC. Incorporation is not in the Bible.
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I could see how the flesh- which is the same in any culture- would tend towards "bigger is better" because of the basics sins of the pride of life, and boasting of what we have and do. But at the same time I have heard that in countries where there has been little exposure to westernized church that the idea of small house churches/ organic church catches on quicker than here in the states.
I recently talked with someone who traveled with a team to rural areas of Peru a little less than a year ago. Apparantly they helpped start up 8 different house church groups which are all still meeting regularly today. People don't have vehicles in this area, so meeting in small local groups is really a must for them. I think here in the states people have so many options available to them that it is hard for people to do anything, and unless they are convicted of their need for small group full participation type fellowship they probably won't do it.
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