Bobby Gruenewald: Micro Churches,Mega Vision

I love to challenge myself to think about things from a different perspective, especially things I’ve taken at face value. For years, when people referenced our church, LifeChurch.tv, as a megachurch, I never gave the term a second thought: I simply thought it meant a big church. Upon more reflection, I realized it describes a big church in comparison to the average sized church in our country.

But what if we consider it in relation to the population of people we could potentially reach? Many people regard a megachurch as one that’s over 2,000 people in attendance. Most churches which have 2,000 people attending are in communities with populations of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people. And with the advent of technology, the potential reach for these churches could extend even millions more beyond their nearby population. Yet churches of this size are only reaching a tiny fraction of the people they could reach. Read more