[BenKenobi]

Informal get togethers work for 5-10 people.

But 500 people? How are you going to get them together successfully without some form of organization?

[MHGinTN]

And how can the Joel OSteens get their ego fix without the massive indoor caverns to echo their voice? ... The point the poster made is quite valid, namely that the Church is not the buildings or the organizations, it is the ekklesia, the family within whom God has placed His Spirit. The Bible message is ‘forsake not the gathering together of yourselves, but it says nothing about ‘build a big edifice to show how faithful you are’. The poor in spirit soul who begged the funds from believers to build ‘the crystal cathedral’ out in California was destined for fail, bigtime, because he even openly stated they needed to build this great glass edifice so in future generations folks might ask ‘what did these people believe; who were they?’ It took very little spiritual discernment to know that man had an agenda which was ‘doing it for God’ in order to pat himself on the back. It could not succeed any more than the Roman Coliseum could have God's blessing.

[RegulatorCountry]

But 500 people? How are you going to get them together successfully without some form of organization?

Brush arbors sufficed in the frontier era of this nation.