Is having a large church always the evidence of God’s blessing?
Today there are churches around the world which have become very large and prosperous. We are impressed when we see such numbers, but size and wealth are not necessarily the evidence of God’s blessing upon a church. When in the Fourth Century Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire and subsidized it lavishly with state funds, it became fashionable to become a Christian. Some have estimated that the Church grew ten times as quickly as before when the Church faced official persecution. However, that church eventually offered little more than dead institutional religion. While we are not comparing today’s Church with the church of that era, we do know that the size of a church is not necessarily correlated with success in God’s eyes. Thus although we all like to see our churches grow, there are matters which are more important than simply how big our church can get. One of these is preaching the gospel according to the word of God. When we do this it is mor
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