I am a Christian, but if you attend a Church where the pastor doesn't know you personally, or you know him , in my humble opinion, find a smaller church.
Harvest Christian Fellowship basically started as a home bible study. It grew.
(Act 2:47 KJV) Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
There have been at least 3 or 4 seed churches that grew out of that. And they've grown and I suspect there will be seed churches from them.
Now I might say that if your church started small and is still small, maybe your should find a bigger church... But I won't. I'll just pray that your church preaches the gospel to the lost and that someday your church will be so big that most of the people in your congregation won't personally know your pastor, but instead will be thinking about planting new seed churches and watching them grow.
Bob Coy was mentored by Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel-Costa Mesa, CA; he later began the Ft Lauderdale church in a corporate warehouse district with only four people in 1985. By 2005, the church had swapped properties with a Fortune 500 company that was downsizing. Attendance exceeded 18,000, making Calvary Chapel the largest church in Florida.
(Act 2:47 KJV) Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
Yep.....
The Shepherd calls them by name........
Amen!
Personally I look at how im getting fed with the word on sunday rather than needing to be in with the pastor..