See the symbol above the ESV Bible Verse of the Day?

Every web site has that , either in the bar where you type in the website address or somewhere on the home page. That’s how you suscribe in your blog reader.

As far as this blog? I have news.

Sometime next week I’m moving everything to briandblog.com.

More info as I’m able to get it to you….

I have a technical question if you don’t mind; some blogs (like yours) have a place to sign up for the updates to show up on my blog reader, but some blogs don’t, is there a way to sign up for updates for a blog reader for these blogs (Peter-John Courson, Wendy Alsip, etc.)…..?

Thanks for your help with this, I appreciate it

I don’t know, but I suspect it has more to do with marketing and organization and a desire of leadership to be big and to keep growing. I don’t believe it’s doctrine, either.

I do know these churches aren’t stretched far beyond the capacity of their organization to run them. Systems are developed and put into place to manage the organization. I’m not sure if it was Driscoll or Perry Noble (or someone else) but I read/heard some megachurch preacher talk about having to change systems every so often to keep up with the growth.

I could chalk it up to an American thing, but there are megachurches in Europe, Africa, South Korea (Cho) and Australia (Hillsongs).

I’d also credit consumer demand – if there wasn’t demand for what the churches offer and the market couldn’t support it, you wouldn’t have these huge churches.

I’ve been thinking about this off and on all day, and I guess the best question I can think of is this: why do megachurches happen? Are there really economies of scale for large churches? Or does it have more to do with superior marketing/organization/whatever?

Call me crazy, but I don’t think doctrine is key; the churches on the Outreach list are of every different doctrinal stripe.

Thanks for the kind words. I’ll check it out!

You probably don’t remember but I used to get on your case about starting your own blog!

You’re linkathons have opened me up to a bunch of great stuff in the whole Body of Christ. Thanks, bud.

I’ve got a blog as well, check it out whenever you’ve got time.

pete costco cal

How can one care for thousands? Answer: he can’t, other than in a general sense and doing what he can to set up systems that train many people to provide that care.