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To: wardaddy

“Everyone can’t drive to Booger Hollow to attend missionary Baptist .”

Sure they can.

A friend goes to a mega-church and I would attend with him. There was no chance he would ever meet one of the pastors. He never met anyone there. He couldn’t give you a single name of a congregant.
He’s been going there for 8 years.


25 posted on 08/30/2021 3:09:12 PM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: AppyPappy

What does he do the rest of his time?


26 posted on 08/30/2021 3:19:05 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: AppyPappy

That’s a generalization simply inaccurate


33 posted on 08/30/2021 4:47:11 PM PDT by wardaddy (Fear Republic land of grumps)
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To: AppyPappy

All the big congregations I’ve been part of have home fellowship groups as a foundational element.

Yeah, it’s hard to catch up every Sunday with the same people out of a crowd of 3000. Human behavior helps; folks tend to sit in about the same place, week in & week out. But you’re not going to cultivate deep relationships unless you get into that home group context. By and large, folks I know who’ve attended big churches for any length of time and come away sour; ether the church was compromising, or they never became part of a home fellowship group.


39 posted on 08/30/2021 7:07:22 PM PDT by HKMk23 (Don't be hasty.)
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