Mark Covington has taken my thoughts about super-circuits and added some of his own. If we are serious about thinking in new ways, ideas such as the ones he suggests deserve some serious discussion.
One notion he has is essentially farming out smaller churches to the staff of bigger churches. That is what we have happening in effect these days with some big churches creating new campuses and alternative worship sites. Rather than pioneering whole new sites, perhaps existing churches could partner to create the same kind of synergy that must be happening to make this a good idea elsewhere.
Neither his thoughts nor mine may hold up to serious consideration, but the conversation alone would be a significant advance.
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The doctrine of original sin is surely more humbling to man than the opposite: And I know not what honour we can pay to God, if we think man came out of His hands in the condition wherein he is now.
