20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 51)
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Mike Winger
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🗓️ 8 October 2021
⏱️ 99 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, we are live and this is 20 questions with Pastor Mike, that's me and I'm answering |
| 0:09.3 | your questions today about Jesus, Christianity, the Bible, the Christian worldview, Christian |
| 0:14.3 | life, secularism, atheism, gummy bears, whatever. |
| 0:17.7 | So here we go, the first question from today for today is going to be from anonymous, |
| 0:24.5 | who I don't know if they're anonymous or if that is their actual first name. |
| 0:27.9 | Who knows, there's really no way to tell. |
| 0:30.7 | And the question is, from a biblical and practical standpoint, is there a maximum number |
| 0:35.2 | of people that can or should make up a local church, assuming their doctrine is biblical, |
| 0:42.0 | can a mega church with multiple satellites or campuses be an effective church? |
| 0:47.6 | And this is, I've not, okay, I've been to attended, you know, and been part of what |
| 0:54.2 | you would consider a mega church many, many years ago. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm not now, and I'm not like in the past 20 years, I have not been, you know, what |
| 1:03.8 | you consider part of a mega church, but you consider like a midsize church. |
| 1:07.2 | But I've heard from especially those who are part of the home church movement, I'm just |
| 1:11.3 | being honest with you guys, okay, like animosity towards mega churches. |
| 1:15.7 | And I've heard many who, you know, church that has like a thousand or two thousand or more |
| 1:19.2 | people that I've heard real animosity from people towards mega churches with these real |
| 1:24.4 | blanket statements, like mega church becomes a pejorative term. |
| 1:28.3 | It just is a way of saying, this is a compromised church, this is a messed up church, this is |
| 1:32.7 | a problematic church. |
| 1:34.2 | And I think that this is primarily symptomatic of some good examples of bad churches combined |
| 1:43.0 | with general normal human prejudice, prejudicial behavior, where I take the examples of some |
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