Mark Driscoll on Multi-Site Church

introduction to talk on going multi-site as a church, from the Coast-to-Coast Multi-Site Conference 2/6/07

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[LinkD3]

One of the few churches that is "mega" large, wealthy and worthy of it!

not to mention humble and wise about how they use their resources and gifts.

Driscoll is awesome

[HowFarAreWeNow]

Pastors are supposed to pastor people AT the church. If people wanted to hear the Gospel from a screen, they would stay home and watch Charles Stanley a 9am on Sunday morning. If you need to add more room, do it. If you need to add more services with different pastors, do it. The worst thing that you can do is make someone sit in front of a screen to watch a sermon. Very impersonal. I went to a satellite campus 3 times and I thought it was horrible.

[jllunm]

The reasons given by Mark Driscoll to use video don't make sense. At one point in his defense of the use of video he mentions that the church in the past used circuit preachers. It was my understanding that circuit preachers were used because there were no local preachers available. That is not the case in Albuquerque. There are plenty of preachers here in the city. If all this sounds like I have a bone to pick I do.

[jllunm]

I object to the methods Mars Hill Church uses to reach people. The attempt to video "church" disciples of Jesus Christ is wrongheaded. Its classical psychological manipulation to see someone ten or 11 feet high declaring a message, regardless of whether the message is truthful or false. One literally sees Mark Driscoll as larger than life. Whats interesting is that the use of this type of medium must be entertaining to keep peoples interest - similar to watching TV.