[Corin Stormhands]

If the Lord has given men personal responsibility to watch over your souls, then the author is correct to assert that size will make that difficult or impossible, especially given that the goal of these churches in the first place is anonymity. That, by definition, makes it impossible for God's ordained method of overseeing of the souls of the elect to function.

Well, thankfully the Lord and Moses disagreed with you.

Numbers 11: 16-17
And the Lord said to Moses, Gather for Me [a]seventy men of the elders of Israel whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting and let them stand there with you. And I will come down and talk with you there; and I will take of the Spirit which is upon you and will put It upon them; and they shall bear the burden

[P-Marlowe]

I just get flabbergasted by these threads. Do these people think that by bashing large churches they are assisting the lord in brining the unsaved into the kingdom? What is the purpose in micro-analyzing the successful churches and looking for what is wrong?

Why don't they ask themselves why their churches aren't numbered among the most sucessful? Heck John Piper's church is one of the largest in the nation. What's he doing wrong? D James Kennedy has one of the largest churches in the world. What's he doing wrong? I don't see those questions.

The criticism appears aimed at the churches of He-Whose-Book-Must-Not-Be-Mentioned and other un-affiliated churches that tend to reach out to the community to compel unbelievers to come in.

[thePilgrim]

***Well, thankfully the Lord and Moses disagreed with you.***

Well, that is funny because I was citing Scripture. You can reference it at Hebrews 13:17. This was also the scripture which the author cited, whom P-Marlowe accused of heresy for the very sentence in which he used the scripture.

Besides, your numbers verse doesn't do anything to overthrow my position and the author's position. Rather, it is yet another verse which proves my position.

In the service of the Lord,
Christian.