[FactQuest]

Nice article.

My church is fundamentalist Baptist. About 5000 attend on a Sunday morning. We have a large choir, an orchestra, lots of music, an excellent sound system, video projections to two big screens on both corner of front, lighting, what amounts to a stage, etc. etc.

Our music is a mixture of old hymns and contemporary stuff.

Our pastor preaches at least 30 minutes, if not closer to an hour. He is well organized, preaches from the inerrant Word, and doesn't sugar coat it in the least.

It is worship, and all the flash hasn't watered down the Word in the least.

Being Baptist, every sermon is followed by an altar call. Decisions are made for Christ every week. Every Sunday night we baptize more new believers.

I think McArthur has nailed a lot of what is wrong in American churches today, but one must be careful to not judge a book by its cover.

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

I think McArthur has nailed a lot of what is wrong in American churches today, but one must be careful to not judge a book by its cover.

Nobody here has any objections to large churches. McAuthur pastors a 10,000+ Reformed Baptist church. There are some accomodations that must be made with large congregations, that are simply unavoidable due to the pure size of the flock. i doubt that you would find any objections from the GRPL people over that issue. May God continue to bless your congregation.

Our majour objection is to those pastors and congregations who have substituted pragmatism for proclamation of the Gospel...as if numbers were a measure of the effectiveness of any particular church.

My own Conservative Presbyterian denomination boasts of some of the largest churches in Presbyterianism, as well as some congregations of 30-40 members.