Bob said: [large churches are] “simply not worth an increase in resources (which is the only benefit I see to size)”

Hi. I am new to this group, and wanted to jump in somewhere, so I figured this would be as good a place as any.

I appreciate your comments and find some agreement with them, Bob. I especially really liked your vision of smaller communities of faith banding together to accomplish things that big communities can… things like social service clinics and whatnot. That is a beautiful vision, and one that really excites me.

But for the sake of argument, let me thow out something that large churches arguably do better than smaller churches: accountability. In all sorts of areas, large churches can leverage their size to make sure that individuals and the organization don’t rip people off. I’m thinking specifically in terms of financial accountability, but dishonest behavior of church leadership may also be more quickly dealt with in an environment with more oversight and distributed leadership than in small communities with passionate and dynamic individual leaders.

Anyway, that is just my .02 cents of thoughts. I look forward to reading more on this dynamic site and participating in the future!

—Dave Dyk