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Key ingredients for “megachurches”

Megachurches may not be everyone’s goal (it’s half mine; The Experience does intend to grow to a large—5000+—church, but on the other extreme, I’m very interested in house churches). However, the Adventist Review has an interesting article called “Why Don’t Adventists Grow Megachurches?“. I found this paragraph especially interesting:

Churches grow into effective megachurches only when seekers become disciples. These seekers need to be mentored by Spirit-filled members who are themselves spiritually disciplined and so are qualified to make disciples. If a large percentage of church members are not disciple-makers, a mega-church will eventually fail or will merely entertain.

So what do you think? Is this the key? And what should we do about it?

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