{"id":4247,"date":"2014-03-11T12:26:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T16:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4247"},"modified":"2014-03-11T12:26:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T16:26:58","slug":"moving-away-from-mega-church-multi-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4247","title":{"rendered":"Moving Away from Mega-Church &#038; Multi-Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know John Mark Comer or Solid Rock Church where he pastors. But I resonate with what he says in <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/PoJvNh\">this interview about their move away from a multi-site mega church model to a family of independent churches<\/a>. This is what I have been urging so I am heartened to see this being done.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a brief excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With multi-site models and video-venue preaching, large churches have changed how we&#8217;ve done ecclesiology for 2,000 years. That doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean it is wrong, but I think there should be more of a conversation about it. People bought into it really fast. Maybe it is the next best thing since the pew and the sound system. But I don&#8217;t know. The broader community needs to wrestle and critique it.<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean for a pastor to live in one city and be the primary preacher for people in another state? Should we think about that a little bit before we adopt this model? It might be wise. The model is very American\u2014and not in a good way. In the UK, for example, they don&#8217;t have the celebrity thing like we do. They loathe branding. They have much more respect for tradition and homegrown. So if we swallow a cultural hook without thinking about it, is that really going to produce solid ecclesiology?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know John Mark Comer or Solid Rock Church where he pastors. But I resonate with what he says in this interview about their move away from a multi-site mega church model to a family of independent churches. This is what I have been urging so I am heartened to see this being done. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Moving Away from Mega-Church &#038; Multi-Site&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53,310],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4248,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions\/4248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}