Our Mega Church Problem

 Remember when we used to criticize mega church pastors? How you would never be able to talk to them in person. How they were not available for counseling. How they were too big and too busy to just be a local church pastor. They were celebrities and in demand to a wider audience. Yes, we used to criticize mega church pastors. And rightly so.

I used to wonder about celebrity pastors who were on the radio way back when. They had churches and they had supporters. But they were authors and they made films and their interests were far beyond their local churches.

In our Fellowship we have our own issues with big church pastors. They are in demand around the world. They spend a lot of time traveling. They are not on TV or even the radio and seem to have no interest in mass media exposure. But they are hard to get ahold of and they are too busy to take an interest in what goes on at home. Sometimes they become a bottleneck when every decision has to go through them and they aren't here.

We are at a place in our history where we need to find the balance between the needs of the Fellowship and the needs of the local church. We leave the work of discipleship up to the assistant pastors. Counseling is done by the associate pastors. We never know if you will even be preaching on Sunday morning.

I hope that our Fellowship can survive the needs of the big church pastors who sometimes need to be in two places at once. Without them we would not be here. Can we thrive without them going forward?