The First Mega-Multisite Church
Nov 24, 2007 Print This Post
.:mood:. Great, Actually
.:itunes:. We Know Too Much by Michael Been
I have often pointed to Jerusalem Community Church as the first Mega Church, but I have never thought of it as Multi-site. JD Greear does a great job detailing this out. Here is a snippet.
Consider the church in Jerusalem. Here’s a few salient points to let marinate:
They had a massive growth problem: The 2nd chapter of Acts tell us that within a few weeks well over 10,000 people had come to Christ (5000 men…) and people were being added “every day.” Acts 2 records the crowd’s response to Peter’s sermon as, “What should we do?” Peter tells them and 3000 souls respond, and in Acts 3 5000 responded, and they are only counting the men. That created a “Holy cow, what should we do?” question for the 120-person core group also! They were dealing with going from 120 to over 10,000 in one week. No conscientious Christian ever says “we’re growing too fast” any more than a cancer patient says “I’m healing too fast.” The Jerusalem church scrambled to do what it could to accommodate that growth.
What was their answer to solving the growth? Staying one church and going multisite.
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