Episode 26: On Multi-Site Churches (with Matt Chandler)

Pastors Talk - A podcast by 9Marks

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Over the past several decades, the multi-site church model has become quite popular. Recently, however, The Village Church, pastored by Matt Chandler, announced it was transitioning all of its sites into independent local churches. In this episode of Pastors' Talk, Mark Dever and Jonathan Leeman interview Matt to talk about the reasons behind this decision.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this episode of the Nine Marks Pastors Talk.
0:08.9	I'm Jonathan Lehman, and I'm here with Mark Devere.
0:11.7	Nine Marks exist to equip church leaders with a biblical vision and practical resources for building healthy churches.
0:18.0	Learn more at nine marks.org.
0:26.9	Thank you. building healthy churches. Learn more at nightmarks.org. Now, Mark, for this episode of Pastors' Talk, I thought we would dip our toes into the multi-site
0:34.1	conversation. Again. Well, this is the first time you and I are having this in this venue.
0:40.0	But you did like 10 years ago, a multi-site journal, an issue of the journal before
0:44.2	multi-sight got super cool.
0:46.1	Yeah, that's exactly right.
0:47.6	That's the funny thing.
0:48.6	And if you look at the increase in the number of multi-sites, since you published that
0:51.7	journal, I think we see your effect on American Christianity.
0:58.1	It's been exponential yeah my arguments and your arguments well there they are proven so effective yeah I've noticed that too well then no that's that's the funny thing is
1:02.9	we barely talked about this publicly yeah like we have that journal from you started writing
1:09.4	a book and I told you to stop it.
1:12.7	He told me to pause it.
1:13.4	It's on pause.
1:13.9	Okay.
1:16.7	So what are we doing talking about this in public right now?
1:17.9	Maybe we shouldn't.
1:18.9	Should we change the topic?
1:19.9	No, it's a good idea.
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