You are of course right about size being a major factor here. I had a pastor once who thought 200 members was the optimum size for a church. He felt a church should start planning to plant a new church when it got larger than 200 members. He may be right.
Paul,
Thanks again--and you are right about too much emphasis on personality types. I decided to post a link to the other thread and quoted your comments on it (the Touchstone blog). It will be interesting to see whether this gets a response.
Yes, I think 200 - 300 is the max for a church size. Another negative factor with large churches is that to many of the congregants become spectators not willing nor ask to serve the body. With this comes the service mentality from the staff - it becomes larger. Then comes the job protection attitude of those on staff. The operation of the church become the priority, not the kingdom of Jesus Christ.
John Chaney
"having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith . . ."Colossians 2:7
I dont think all go in with that attitude. I hope not. Some might pick that up while in the ministry if they serve under other ministers with that attitude.
