Does size matter?

August 26, 2007

Act 20:20 ACV
(20) How I kept back nothing of these things that are beneficial, not to inform you, and to teach you in public, and from house to house,


It always amazes me how people can get in to doctrinal disputes over the trivial things. I have hear people say, and good Christians at that, that the house church movement is wrong, that we need to stop it, and that we need to stop cell groups meeting in people's homes. I have also heard home church people say that churches larger that a dozen families are wrong. And these are good Christian people also. Who is right and who is wrong? They both are.

Paul is our example here. On his way back to Jerusalem to bring finances to the Christians there, and to meet the fate that will bring him to Rome, he stops in Asia and says these words to the people. I held nothing back. I preached in public (large huge gatherings) and from house to house. Paul sees them as both being good and necessary. Why should we argue with him?

It is good to be in fellowship a a large group of people where the corporate anointing can flow. It is also good to be in small groups of people where people can minister one on one.

Why do we as Christians major on the minors, and minor on the majors?