| Big Church Is Big Business |
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| Written by Ross Cavins | ||||||
| Tuesday, 25 September 2007 | ||||||
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I heard someone talking yesterday about how this pastor and his church owned half a city block and had a membership of more than five thousand people. By "Big City" standards, that's small but by my little country church standards, it's huge. Too huge. It seems to me that big churches have become big business in America.
 A Big Church. Enter America and the mass dissemination of every flavor of Protestantism. Add a few we made up along the way (Seventh Day Adventist, Mormonism, Scientology, etc.) and you have the land of choices. Religion has never loved a form of government more than ours, one that guarantees the freedom to give your money to any religion you so choose. In America's beginning, the church played an integral role in the community. In most cases, the church was the community. As cities grew, so did the churches within their borders. Somewhere along the way, I believe the focus changed. Big churches are worried more about having two services to handle the volume of participants than having a close-knit community. Sure they spend a lot of money to print posters and flyers promoting community and youth league sports and fall festivals but it's just not the same as the type of community a small country church creates. Big churches are all about big business. That's an opinion I know, but I believe it's a true one. And to me, big churches defeat the purpose of what the church set out to do in America in the beginning. Draw together the community into a strong cohesive unit.
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